The fascination sometimes, the request for space

Networks, connections, relationships, relationships are crucial. They form part of a widely understood culture in which man is not only the creator of what is beautiful, but besides of what is useful – and so states, institutions, laws, education system, language, symbolic, moral or spiritual sphere. Networks – conscious or not – intertwine our identity while helping us to decision forward. That step we might never take alone.

The planet in which we live defines a circumstantial framework. We talk about it in a number of ways, through subsequent cases, changing the strains of individual life, of the community, of economical life or yet of political life. We build relationships, specify our priorities, indicating the objectives of action, or yet developing plans and strategies, which in turn are included in the chain of needs, necessity or obligations. Even erstwhile they seem “unconnected”, they truly turn out to be elements of a network that connects us to a strategy of communication, emotion, information. Networks, connections, relationships, relationships are crucial. They form part of a widely understood culture in which man is not only the creator of what is beautiful, but besides of what is useful – and so states, institutions, laws, education system, language, symbolic, moral or spiritual sphere. Networks – conscious or not – intertwine our identity while helping us to decision forward. That step we might never take alone.

Sometimes fascination, trying to capture it, realize it, or yet tame it, engages the attention of researchers for thousands of years. The same is actual of space, which is not only my own area to live and act, but a place shared with others; a place of consent, but besides a place of dispute. Both dimensions – so fascinating philosophers or scientists, and after all, imprinting their imprint on all area of human activity (and not only specifically human) – require inquisitive research. Both not only tell our story, but form it. This formation, however, is not the "free flow" of subsequent emerging from the time (last, present, future) of cases or things and events embedded in a defined space. In his latest book A lost future and how to get it back, Jan Zielonka, shows a fascinating position that makes you think about a fresh policy of time and space. A policy that kind of pulls us out of the existing systems and poses fresh questions that let us to realize the planet we live in. A planet of concrete problems worth considering in the re-read position of time and space.

By beginning the reader to the confrontation of the old and fresh reading of the above "friends", The green woman is challenging us. Step by step, he looks at the meanings and dimensions to which we are somewhat accustomed. However, his reading of time and space is not only, as he does in the first part of the book, a communicative about the forms known to us, which we are utilized to dealing with, but above all a fresh proposal, so crucial in the debate on the crisis of liberal democracy, or even more so, about the request to change the paradigm. Here "politics defines our (unequal) access to time and space depending on dominant views on justice, order and freedom". And... it's hard to disagree erstwhile the author shows how politics scope for our time (and it goes far further than we realize on a regular basis), how space forms our being within and outside our borders, locked up and in inevitable openness to the challenges of the modern world. The demonstration of the tooling of time and space, seen as a policy tool, necessarily accounts for the reader with any regulated law “when” (for regulations “refer to the rights and obligations of citizens, the judiciary, democratic representation”) and “where” (from freedom of movement, by setting borders, to the challenges of diversity and the ability to choose identity, or a well-known discrimination between “local” and “autsajders”, who take the face of “their” and “foreign”. Next to reaching for the large masters of ancient and modern thought, Green reaches for literature or popular culture, so vividly and clearly leading us through his vision. And erstwhile we catch our breath with the illustrated book of drawings by Andrzej Mleczko (chapeau bass for their selection), we are again delving into the meanders of time and space. one more time they face the reader with his own condition, erstwhile the Green One, mentioning Plato, disarms the reality of the bubbles in which we live. due to the fact that in fact, the Athenian master (in mention to the story of the cave), recalls that the fact can only be found erstwhile you escape from it. Bubbles, like our multidimensional tribalism, are besides a way of human being in space; plurality not allowing actual dominance.

Time and space in our planet translate into quite a few things, including speed, found in the "fastness" and way of utilizing time (because work 24/7 and the harmfulness of "slight democracy", which lacks time for appropriate reflection or decently thought-out/prepared action). This planet acceleration (and no 1 will deny the latter) makes the phenomena of culture, in its first wide sense, change nothing in the kaleidoscope. The intertwined evolution and deconstruction are besides subject to the phenomenon of time and space. So she asks Greenie if it's worth slowing down. most likely worth it, but... can we? A detailed lesson, conducted with actual virtuosoria, analyses conducted by the author (I will not quote them here, without wanting to deprive the reader of intellectual discoveries and surprises). The power it administers by time and space policy is besides the search for a way out of disappointments and a kind of strategy failure. Although it can better say their inadequacy (also at the level of understanding/absorbing) to the challenges and “device” of the modern world. "We must besides find a imagination of the future," Jan Zielonka continues, which will not be based on prejudice, exclusion, falsification of past and ruthless exploitation of our biosphere." And if we are to "recover our future", then (it is hard to disagree with the author) we gotta shift, grow the horizon, this "more democracy", but a democracy conscious of its anchoring besides in extra-state systems, specified as networks. And 1 could say: Nihil novi, due to the fact that all kinds of connections, and with them networks, accompany humanity forever. Today, however, as the author clearly shows – their power, reach, ability to identify challenges and solve problems, their efficiency and permanence, has moved to a much higher level. "To go beyond the primacy of national states and to strengthen another public actors at local and transnational level", Greenka proposes, which does not mean that the countries themselves must end. On the contrary, it's an thought of how to get the future back. The thought of moving a part of political freedom into the hands of the well-managed (as well as time and space) networks... of citizens. An thought that should perfectly find itself and ours, learning each another again and looking for ways to work together, civilian society. Here truly (behind Giuseppe Tomas di Lampedusa) “if we want everything to stay as it is, everything must change.”