![]() ![]() ![]() The book, however, did not only express this orientation, it contributed to it. Looking back, this novel can be read as a modern myth describing the historical construction of the individualised, male, western subject, which became the hegemonic form of orientation in capitalist modernity. The aim of this text is to clarify the modern problem of orientation through a reading of one of the great modern myths of western man, namely Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). Here, at the beginning of the bourgeois epoch, we sense that orientation is always more than geographical. To understand the emergence of the problematic of orientation in modern western philosophy, one must turn to narratives of geographical disorientation in the meeting between modern capitalist Europe and its others. ![]() An exploration of the emergence of the orientations of modern male bourgeois individuality. Rai, Bue Rübner Hansen, Claire English, Claudia Delso, Cristina Ribas, Esquizo Grupo Barcelona, Jara Rocha, Julius, Laura Lapinskiene, Manuela Zechner, Marc Herbst, Ninaha, Sara Larsdotter Hallqvist, Paula Cobo–Guevara What do politics and ethics mean in the context of frequent displacements? How do we understand and give account of our positionality and trajectory as itinerant subjects? What tools do we have for orienting ourselves in new contexts, for mapping out stakes, problems and possibilities of relating? Contributions: Alan Moore, Amit S. Neoliberalism and precarity are the main contexts we depart from in developing concepts, tools and tactics that stem from our collective and individual lives. What is the meaning of situatedness within displacement? In this book we address conditions, experiences and subjectivity as shaped by the tension(s) between displacement and situatedness. Yet situatedness is not something we can take for granted today. Edited by Manuela Zechner and Paula Cobo Guevara (Murmurae) and Marc Herbst (Journal of Aesthetics & Protest) Displacement is a key paradigm of our time, for who can afford not to move, to shift, to change, to develop and improve – or to be moved, shifted, displaced? Situatedness is a key condition for solid and sustainable practices, in politics, arts, research or otherwise. ![]()
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