COP 26 and hope

 Me and Samyia met Jenna to talk about COP 26. 

Apparently it was actually really good in that activists were getting involved in very complex negotiations. The way it works is that they work directly with the civil service and they think about how to make change happen at a meso level. Activism can be many things, and some times it is not enough just to write placards and go on a march. 

I have been thinking about hope this week for our hope critical discussion group. Johan has asked us to think about Lear's concept of radical hope. Here is an excerpt of the book chapter he asked us to read:

What makes this hope radical is that it is directed towards a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what hope is. Radical hope anticipates a good for which those who have the hope as yet lack the appropriate concepts with which to understand it. What would it be for such hope to be justified?

I have also been reading Rebecca Solnit in the Guardian who works with hope.  Here is a thought from Johan: 



The full words say; 




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  1. spodsheffNovember 22, 2021 at 1:49 AM

    I am reading radical hope - it is a very nice straightforward book and the words slip easily from the page. We need more writing like this - it draws on analytical approaches to philosophy but tries to speak of somethibng bigger than any one of us.

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  2. Kate PahlNovember 23, 2021 at 1:43 AM

    I have got the book - it is at home. I thought about the idea of reading a book without quotes. My ex MA supervisor Gunther Kress wrote Before Writing without quotes and it is a perfect book. It would be amazing to write our tree book without quotes and have it say something new.

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