ONLINE ENLIGHTENMENT PROJECT
If the 'enlightenment project'
"especially in its liberal individualistic form, emphasizes the free choices and rights of the individual, but disregards the social and historical context in which actual individuals are embedded," 1
then the Online Enlightenment Project
"seems a good way to characterize individual thought in a setting free of historical and social ties. If the web isn't about the promotion of free-thinking then what's it about?" 2
After all, participants in the eighteenth-century Enlightenment
"were predominately independent individuals, quite often working outside of formal learning institutions, and eventually working in collaboration with them." 3
1 The Blackwell Dictionary of Western Philosophy
2 Art History Today
3 3 Pipe Problem
Current workshops on OEP
Heterodox economist Ha-Joon Chang points to the Light
In an earlier post we inquired about the nature of the Light in question. We determined that it's a flexible wave of movements coming forward, an intertwining of economic, philosophical, and metaphysical concepts all directed toward the immediate and radical betterment of our individual and collecti... (Continue)
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OEP is an extra-institutional workshop platform for shaping ideas that are perhaps not yet so fully formed (or sufficiently scholarly) to warrant inclusion in a formal research program. This is an environment where people can be fast on their feet, even spontaneous, and creatively try out ways of addressing the brave new world we're now in.
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The Online Enlightenment Project is affiliated with Next Level Press.