My first event (one of two) will be taking place this Friday. The conversation within the event is key to its purpose, I want to create an atmosphere where all of those attending are able to contribute to a conversation, making it unpredictable and full of potential.

My job as the creator of this event is to start the conversation, which is a lot more difficult than I first thought.
As the conversation is to be based around the a sculptural frame that is to be destroyed, I want to steer the conversation the direction of what it represents.

As part of APCP, there is a forum every week that has fallen into our hands, last week we had the philosophy tutor Dominic Smith talking about his recent paper ‘A solipsist can’t tell the time’.

I found this quite interesting from a societal persceptive, how governmental politics creates solipsism through word play and the focus on what laws can do for the individual with lack of concern for other people. We live in a society that focuses on the benefits for those who can do well, those who do not reap these benefits are merely additional factors of a whole that does not concern them.

Our money contributes to arms trade sales, accommodating our need for protection from the arms that our country sells to others. The indulgence in capitalism is injected into our surroundings as a distraction from those who are poverty and fighting to feed their child because it does not concern the middle class citizen, so it’s not really a problem, they got themselves there. It’s quite frankly bullshit, and I am happy to say that this is eventually becoming a common conversation. The whole reason I feel comfortable hosting a conversation that will be directed towards governmental rule, is because we now live in a society that is becoming more aware of the filth that is capitalism of the 21st century.

The philsophical problems, whilst being interesting are merely the backgorund of this, as the technical qualities of it are too dense to be able to create a basis that will engage those who are not aware of its complexity. Yet, the raw concept is intriguing, the main problem I am having is how to not loose everyone in the jargon that its intistagates, as I believe that that solpsistic in itself. yet paradocxial as this questions are not my own.

But isn’t that the problem of politics? That we are infused with ideas that we think are our own, yet no knowledge can belong to one being.


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