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Connolly_Role Experimentalism and Dem Activism
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William Connolly
Role Experimentalism and Democratic Activism
Ethical, Political, and Economic Life is determined by our orientation toward life
Sensibilities Matter
Micro to Macro
A. Not just on the individual level--a spirit of presumptive generosities flow from larger structures.
Micro and Macro Sensibilities
B. Resentment does, too: crime, justice, self-interest, xenophobia, racism 179-180
C. See how the media can convince groups to support policies that contradict their own self-interest. 180
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Vulnerability and Generosity are interwoven
1. Our experience of vulnerability make us empathetic to others who may be suffering.
Vulnerability
2. And, divisions in groups can structure our empathy in problematic ways (us vs. them)
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Fragility is not optimistic or pessimistic...
Electoral politics are disfunctional
But NOT engaging in macropolitics cedes too much ground to corporate interests;
losing all confidence in the system perpetuates SQ
Electoral Politics
Positive possibilities of micro experimentation.
The roles we play connect us to each other.
Micro-experimentation
A. Tacit (e.g. eye contact) 182-3
B. Based in power (e.g. obeying a boss) 183
C. Gender 183
1. Role experimentation can disrupt the existing structures of a political regime
186: Examples
Disruption and Pluralist Assemblage
2. Aspirational Selves vs. operational selves
3. The experiments accumulate!
4. Goal: Large pluralist assemblage