Afterword—Rebooting Philosophy

2019 ◽  
pp. 207-214
Author(s):  
Luciano Floridi
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Philosophy Of Information ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century

We have come to the end of this third volume. Together with the previous two, I hope it provides sufficient clarity and some designing tools for the philosophy of information to enable us to make the next step, which will be to understand and design the human project we may want to pursue in the twenty-first century. As usual, the more one explores, the more one realizes how much more work lies ahead, in terms of better understanding of the challenges we face, and efforts that we must make to devise adequate ways of thinking about our world, our society, and ourselves, in increasingly digitized contexts. By way of conclusion, in this afterword, I shall sketch the direction in which I hope we may make some progress. Many of the problems with which we are dealing and shall be dealing in the infosphere are uncharted territory, but I hope that a few points of reference may help us to get oriented. The actual navigation is left to the next volume, ...

scholarly journals Occupation of Racial Grief, Loss as a Resource: Learning From ‘The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement’

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 352-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suryia Nayak
Keyword(s):  
Psychological Impact ◽  
First Century ◽  
Feminist Movement ◽  
Grief And Loss ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Combahee River Collective ◽  
Stark Contrast ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Constituent Elements

Abstract The methodology of ‘occupation’ through re-reading The Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Statement (The Combahee River Collective, in: James, Sharpley-Whiting (eds) The Black Feminist Reader. Blackwell Publishers Ltd., Oxford, pp 261–270, 1977) demonstrates the necessity of temporal linkages to historical Black feminist texts and the wisdom of Black feminist situated knowers. This paper argues that racism produces grief and loss and as long as there is racism, we all remain in racial grief and loss. However, in stark contrast to the configuration of racial grief and loss as something to get over, perhaps grief and loss can be thought about differently, for example, in terms of racial grief and loss as a resource. This paper questions Western Eurocentric paternalistic responses to Black women’s ‘talk about their feelings of craziness… [under] patriarchal rule’ (The Combahee River Collective 1977: 262) and suggests alternative ways of thinking about the psychological impact of grief and loss in the context of racism. In this paper, a Black feminist occupation of racial grief and loss includes the act of residing within, and the act of working with the constituent elements of racial grief and loss. The proposal is that an occupation of racial grief and loss is a paradoxical catalyst for building a twenty-first century global intersectional Black feminist movement.

Imagining Terror in an Era of Globalization: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Construction of Terrorism after 9/11

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 579-590 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine V. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
September 11 ◽  
First Century ◽  
Virtual Network ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Al Qaeda ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
The U.S

Many analyses of U.S. foreign policy after September 11 have rested upon readings of the U.S. as a traditional imperialist power. In so doing, the constructions of Al Qaeda as a decentralized corporation and a virtual network are often ignored. Corporate and network constructions place less stress on conventional threats to the nation-state and instead portray terrorism in distinctively post-Fordist terms. This in turn helps explain the short-lived and partial patriotic responses to the terrorist attacks, as well as the contradictory place of race in portrayals of the threat facing the U.S. Together these discourses point to new ways of thinking about U.S. nationalism and terrorism in the twenty-first century.

Are you a neoliberal subject? On the uses and abuses of a concept

2021 ◽  
pp. 136843102110372
Author(s):  
Galen Watts
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Literature ◽  
First Century ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
Embodied Subjectivity ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Social Scientific

A spate of social scientific literature gives the impression that societies in the twenty-first century are overrun with ‘neoliberal subjects’. But what does it actually mean to be a neoliberal subject? And in what ways does this concept relate to ‘neoliberalism’, more generally? In this article, I distinguish between four common ways of thinking about ‘neoliberalism’: (1) as a set of economic policies, (2) as a hegemonic ideological project, (3) as a political rationality and form of governmentality and (4) as a specific type of embodied subjectivity. I argue that while neoliberalisms (1), (2) and (3) potentially hold clear conceptual connections to one another – notwithstanding the quite real tensions between them – their relationship to neoliberalism (4) is often (although not always) tenuous at best. That is, the evidence routinely offered to demonstrate the existence of neoliberalism (4) bears almost no necessary relationship to neoliberalisms (1), (2) or (3). I conclude that, for both academic and political reasons, scholars should be more careful when invoking the monolithic notion of a ‘neoliberal subject’.

Transliteracy: Crossing divides

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sue Thomas ◽  
Chris Joseph ◽  
Jess Laccetti ◽  
Bruce Mason ◽  
Simon Mills ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Communication ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century

Transliteracy might provide a unifying perspective on what it means to be literate in the twenty-first century. It is not a new behavior but has only been identified as a working concept since the internet generated new ways of thinking about human communication. This article defines transliteracy as “the ability to read, write and interact across a range of platforms, tools and media from signing and orality through handwriting, print, TV, radio and film, to digital social networks” and opens the debate with examples from history, orality, philosophy, literature, and ethnography. We invite responses, expansion, and development.

Promoting thinking skills in education

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kwame E. Glevey
Keyword(s):  
Thinking Skills ◽  
First Century ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century

How children are guided in the development of their thinking is now crucial in the twenty-first century. Over the past decades special thinking skills programmes have been developed to enhance thinking but these programmes have so far been unable to produce clear evidence to support their effectiveness. This article argues that due to the complex nature of thinking some fundamental changes in education must be tackled if all children are to be encouraged to develop and enhance their own particular ways of thinking.

Post-Millennial Palestine

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Peace Process ◽  
First Century ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Integral Component ◽  
Chronic Trauma ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century

Post-Millennial Palestine: Literature, Memory, Resistance confronts how Palestinians have recently felt obliged to re-think memory and resistance in response to dynamic political and regional changes in the twenty-first century; prolonged spatial and temporal dispossession; and the continued deterioration of the peace process. Insofar as the articulation of memory in (post)colonial contexts can be viewed as an integral component of a continuing anti-colonial struggle for self-determination, in tracing the dynamics of conveying the memory of ongoing, chronic trauma, this collection negotiates the urgency for Palestinians to reclaim and retain their heritage in a continually unstable and fretful present. The collection offers a distinctive contribution to the field of existing scholarship on Palestine, charting new ways of thinking about the critical paradigms of memory and resistance as they are produced and represented in literary works published within the post-millennial period. Reflecting on the potential for the Palestinian narrative to recreate reality in ways that both document it and resist its brutality, the critical essays in this collection show how Palestinian writers in the twenty-first century critically and creatively consider the possible future(s) of their nation.

scholarly journals Nationalism, Ethnotheology and Mysticism in Interwar Romania

2009 ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Roland Clark
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Academic Discipline ◽  
First Century ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Christian Mysticism ◽  
Mircea Eliade ◽  
Ways Of Thinking ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Theological Pedagogy ◽  
The Way

Scholarship on Christian mysticism underwent a renaissance in Romania between 1920 and 1947, having a lasting impact on the way that Romanian theologians and scholars think about Romanian Orthodoxy Christianity in general, and mysticism in particular. Fascist and ultra-nationalist political and intellectual currents also exploded into the Romanian public sphere at this time. Many of the same people who were writing mystical theology were also involved with ultra-nationalist politics, either as distant sympathizers or as active participants. This paper situates the early work of the renowned theologian Dumitru Stăniloae within the context of mystical fascism, nationalist apologetics, and theological pedagogy in which it was originally produced. It shows how a new academic discipline formed within an increasingly extremist political climate by analyzing the writings of six key men whose work significantly shaped Romanian attitudes towards mysticism: Nae Ionescu, Mircea Eliade, Lucian Blaga, Nichifor Crainic, Ioan Gh. Savin, and Dumitru Stăniloae. The contributions of these thinkers to Romanian theology are not dismissed once their nationalism is noted, but they are contextualized in a way that allows twenty-first century thinkers to move beyond the limitations of these men and into fresh ways of thinking about the divine-human encounter.

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