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Reflections of Tyranny — The Caribbean Philosophical Association Shifting the Geography of Reason.

Our new posting of “Caliban’s Readings” is now available. Please join Ahmed AboHamad in exploring the cultivation of fear under oppression: "Whenever a society normalizes conditions of tyranny, even the subordinated reproduce domination, often reenacting it downward."

At times, your relationship with the past feels like your relationship with a movie you watched a long time ago —distant and detached, a story that would only feel real if you were to physically return home.

Exile is a rupture. It severs the sense of continuity between your present self and your past one. Your new self still holds memories, but even those start to blur. The mind struggles to distinguish between what you truly lived and what you absorbed through media or virtual affective experiences.

Living in exile feels like living someone else’s life. Sure, that other person might be living a good life, but they don’t feel like you. They don’t carry the same subjectivity and sensibilities that you once had. Exile alienates you from your past selves.

When I'm dreading academia, I daydream about being a farmer and/or a cook. If I can’t live the life of the mind in the academy, I’ll happily live it on a farm or in a kitchen.

Hi all! I’m a 4th-year Ph.D. candidate studying how we should think about virtue and flourishing under structural injustice. I also look at how philosophies like Stoicism and Sufism can be misused for political purposes. I’ve side interests in Epistemology, Phil of Science, and Environmental Ethics.

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