Fragments: planetary philosophy | Julian Stdd learning blog

Today, I share fragments of writing the planetary philosophy book: working alongside Sae in London today, I finished a full draft of the work, and tomorrow will start again with a pass to refine the language, and I put some quotes and “ bridges ” between key sections. This first piece is the introduction of the book:

“This book offers a new Planetary philosophy. This testifies to the things we have lost, like our growing isolation of nature and our lost ties, and he examines what the “progress” of humanity has cost us, both individually and collectively. It's a philosophy contextualized in motion.

I located this philosophical exploration within my wider work (and, perhaps, my more rigorous and more useful work) on the social era. Thanks to this objective, we can see the evolution of our social, productivity, identity, learning, belief and belonging structures. All the facets of our world are in motion, modified by the proliferation of our collaborative technologies, which have fractured our old ways of being and led not only movements, but acceleration and, ultimately, the crisis.

This book seeks to explain our journey towards this moment, our potential trajectory, and in a critical way, how we can tackle the budding crisis for ourselves and our planet.

It's a story of ladder: From the atomic (you, me and the individuals who cross the system) to the planetary scope. These are individuals and communities as well as the world collective emerging. At the extremes, this book pleads for new models of citizenship, belief and belonging, necessary for our new world order, for fear that we irrevocably lose links to each other and to our remarkable environment. »»

Then, a little further:

“We lose our senses of the place and context when we lose our existence formerly local and rooted in an abstract, global and technologically mediated way. Our changing lifestyles are not intrinsically corrupted, but when we derive further from our natural foundations, our dull feeling. Things derive from our scope.

We lose part of the texture and nuances of the lived experience, more and more clumsy and myopic. And we note that our advanced biology and our structures of the historically constructed being are no longer entirely adapted to the objective among our rapidly evolving surroundings.

The self-confidence indicates a broader disturbance of “self” and “place”. A distance from the concept of nation to the transnational emerge and finally the planetary. »»

This last section comes from the end of the book, bringing together threads that crossed it.

“I have described a feeling of fragmentation or dissolution, because our technology allowed the characters to decline the structures inherited from belief and belonging, security and effect. And with this a natural reconnection: a rediscovery of texture, a humility of action.

The planet quantified alongside the catalytic context of the Genai can be a fracture point, far from our inheritances both of industrialization and colonization, and in a space governed by new principles and effects of effect. It remains to be seen if we can move forward, without repairing the past: without reconciliation or repair.

As usefulness is more and more automated and our relationship with our human exceptionalism is tested in the whole, we should consider our fundamental premise.

Our ways of knowing and being.

Perhaps we will stop being confined by the identity of the place, to become nomadic in citizenship and, in fact, to adopt a philosophy of constant movement.

It is the nomadic self, more differentiated by geography or technology, but linked to naturalness. The pace of the tides, the beating of the seasons, the will to look beyond the walls. »»

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