Dystopian Contemporary Positions: Sustainable Development As A Manifest Instance Of The Epistemological Disposition
This is the initial chapter of Ruth Thomas Pellicer’s doctoral thesis submitted (2011) at the University of Surrey (UK) under the title What ist Kultur: The Places of God In the Age of Re-Embodiments. The overall thesis conforms to a study of the philosophical elements that make up the epistemological, logocentric tradition as initiated by [...]
Towards a Theoretical Articulation of the Age of Re-Embodiments
Ruth Thomas-Pellicer is discussing with the Glasshouse Press an edited collection that aims to offer an early articulation of a theoretical foundation through which to capture processes of re-embodiment, to develop a cognitive foundation for the articulation of diverse but identifiable and overarching socio-political phenomenon, patchily visible all over the globe. It is also anticipated [...]
‘Re-Imagining Our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-Embodiments?’ - Symposium Announcement
The Theory Study Group section of the British Sociological Association is supporting the symposium ‘Re-Imagining our Sociological Contemporaneity: What is the Age of Re-Embodiments? on July 16th 2010 in London so that the invited speakers engage in a preliminary attempt to define the theoretical implications of this Age.
Re-embodiment is a global social phenomenon. It is [...]
Sustainability as (Neo)liberalism’s Trojan Horse in Ecocidal Times
Ruth Thomas-Pellicer has published a critical reflection in the form of an Eco Pax Mundi kernel on the political and chrematistic role that the banner of SD/sustainability has been playing ever since it reached the international arena with the publication of Our Common Future in 1987. Ruth alerts us of the need not to get [...]
A Jubilee for Climate Justice as a Roadmap into the Age of Re-embodiments
Ruth Thomas-Pellicer introduces this Eco Pax Mundi kernel with the following words: “In the wake of Copenhagen’s foretold failure, what is urgently required is a vision. This kernel aims at proposing in firm the Age of Re-embodiments as the Mecca to attain the twin climatic and social justice and thus exit the ecocidal mode of [...]
Measures to Steadily Enter the Age of Re-embodiments
There is some urgency for us to engage in an Age of Re-embodiments. Such an age exacts the re-embodiment of human tread on the Planet in ecocycles and biorythems alike. This is in particular necessary for the technologically-sillily-developed West.
A global process of re-embodiment is incompatible with carbon markets. Karl Polanyi’s political economy is [...]
Low-tech is Part of the Sociological Imagination for the Age of Re-embodiments
While the challenge of disembodiment follows from the Neolithic Revolution and a fortiori the practice of metallurgy, it is a recent series of industrial revolutions that have perilously intensified it: At what rates of dis/embodiment are human societies –or some of their groups— willing to live in order to erect what kind of global civilization? [...]
