Lazarus in the Multiple: Awakening to the Era of Complexity - Softcover

Peter, Camaren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1785351087 ISBN 13: 9781785351082

Verlag: John Hunt Publishing, 2016

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Lazarus in the Multiple presents a new philosophy on how to navigate the complex challenges that society faces in the 21st Century. It deploys the biblical “Lazarus” as the everyman of modernity, who is caught between past and present, life and death, and sleep and awakening amidst the humdrum and complexity of the “multiple”. The multiple is the great sea of noise that lies both within and without Lazarus, from which social reality is born. In this casting, Lazarus is unable to distinguish the signal from the noise and hence remains trapped within enduring ritual and an unfulfilled existence. He is unable to find expression and take actions to bring about meaningful change within himself or in the world around him.

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Camaren Peter is a pure scientist by training, having originally studied physics and astrophysics. He later completed a PhD at the Graduate School of Business at the University of Cape Town. He now works across a range of disciplinary boundaries on problem sets ranging from sustainable development, to urbanization, to design and photography.

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Lazarus in the Multiple

Awakening to the Era of Complexity

By Camaren Peter

John Hunt Publishing Ltd.

Copyright © 2015 Camaren Peter
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-78535-108-2

Contents

On the Purpose of this Book: Meditations, Reflections and Imperfection, 
Preface to Part I: A Homage to the Muddlers, 
Part I: Meditations on Time, Memory and Existence, 
Chapter 1: Multiplicity: Many Voices: Past & Present, 
Chapter 2: On Forgiveness and the Future, 
Chapter 3: The Wakeful Dead, 
Chapter 4: Resurrecting Lazarus: Leaders, Philosophers & Strategists, 
Chapter 5: Lazarus and the Traveller, 
Chapter 6: Obstacles to a Third Way: Ideology before Analysis!, 
Chapter 7: Left Meets Right, 
Chapter 8: Necropalyptic Politics: The Politics of the Dead, 
Chapter 9: The Multiple in Action: The Occupy Protests — Being Leaderless Helps Reshape the Territory, 
Chapter 10: Freedom, 
Chapter 11: Evil and the Multiple, 
Part II: The Multiple and the Future, 
Chapter 12: The Multiple as Filter, 
Chapter 13: Intervention & Disruption: Tools for Change, 
Chapter 14: On the 'Ethical Idea', 
Chapter 15: What Kind of Theory?, 
Chapter 16: Emergence and a Changing World, 
Chapter 17: Polycrisis and Undecidability, 
Chapter 18: Heterarchy and the Virtual Realm, 
Chapter 19: Transdisciplinarity and the Future, 
Chapter 20: Final Note, 
Afterword: Reflections on Descartes' Meditations, 
Endnotes, 
References, 

CHAPTER 1

Multiplicity: Many Voices: Past & Present

Never have I felt as strongly as today that I was devoid of secret dimensions, limited to my body, to the airy thoughts which float up from it like bubbles. I build my memories with my present. I am rejected, abandoned in the present. I try in vain to join the past: I cannot escape from myself. — Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea, 1965)

No-one can reverse the past. It cannot be reclaimed, yet it is in the present, with us. It is distributed throughout the multiplicitous sea that constitutes the present — in us, between us, and outside of us — but it takes no absolute form. Its distribution across time, space and people gives it the power to emerge in different ways, depending on the context that governs its emergence. Its traces emerge from the seas within and without us, elusively roping into and out of the interactions we have. In this way it is constantly being rewritten and will always continue to be.

We call this history, but by giving it a name we trap it in a bottle in which it is unable to breathe, and preserve a dead, static version of it, and with it a dead static version of ourselves. The question: "whose history, whose past?" allows us to destabilise the lifeless presentation we call 'history' because it forces us to confront the distributed nature of the past as it is understood and experienced in the present. The past is not history, and history is not the past. The past is still with us, emerging in different ways as we journey through the present, precisely because it is distributed in all of us.

While history can be rewritten with the vagaries of power and politics, the past is elusive. It retains agency by living within us. It is individual and collective, personal and shared. It is living and breathing with us. It is part of our interactivity and nonlinearity; we cannot be neatly arranged into hierarchies and neither can the past. No hierarchy can hold the past hostage because the past is more than what can be written or recorded. To engage with t

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• Verlag: John Hunt Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1785351087
• ISBN 13: 9781785351082
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 144
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