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Back to SearchSexual Consent and Erotic Agape - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 10
Episode 176
In this essay, I united the loves of eros and agape into the stance of erotic agape and the self as a student/teacher. As we interact, we are each of…
2 months ago
The Agony of Eros - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 9
Episode 175
In this essay, I introduce eros as the creative love of self-transcending agency. In our development as human beings we must be called to learn and t…
2 months, 1 week ago
Agape and the Deservedness of Personhood - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 8
Episode 174
In this essay I introduce agape as the love of compassionate, educative hospitality for the student's flaws, faults, and mistakes. In producing solar…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Aspirational Ecologies of Self-Development - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 7
Episode 173
In this essay, I discuss how self-development requires an ecology of practices that focus on multiple forms of development. I then talk about the phi…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The Multiplicity of Solarpunk Selves - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 6
Episode 172
In this essay I go deeper into the notion that we are composed of parts. In understanding the solarpunk self we need to take these parts into consid…
3 months ago
The Flowering of the Solarpunk Self - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 5
Episode 171
In this essay, I discuss the philosophy of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas, and Byung-Chul Han, and how they can help us understand how the solarpunk…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Chrysalis and the Butterfly - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 4
Episode 170
In this essay, I continue my redefinition of the self in a solarpunk culture. We discuss the quality of relations using Martin Buber's distinction b…
3 months, 2 weeks ago
Atomized Selves and Solarpunk Dividuals - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 3
Episode 169
In this essay, I continue the deconstruction of the neoliberal individual, the self-interested, autonomous, rational actor we are all expected to be…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Solarpunk Selves Aren't Liberal Individuals - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 2
Episode 168
In this essay, I begin to contrast the solarpunk self with the notion of the liberal individual, the autonomous, rational actor that we are all assum…
3 months, 3 weeks ago
Solarpunk Selves and Sexual Ethics - Defining the Solarpunk Self, Part 1
Episode 167
In this essay, I begin defining a solarpunk self as a relational self, or one created out of its relations with others and the world. Given the egali…
3 months, 3 weeks ago