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'the day local authorities permit let alone encourage genuine ludic space is the day they write themselves out of existence' Mary, UtrechtToKentucky

'Before the Enlightenment,' my politics tutor announced in our first seminar, 'people couldn't think for themselves because they hadn't invented ideologies.' He did have that recently disinterred look I'd previously associated with someone who's recovered from a terminal illness, but this guy was also the author of the leading textbook on Public Administration in the UK.

Like it or not (and my politics tutor didn't when I told him...), the Enlightenment has deconstructed itself, and consensus in this faculty is that there are plenty more fun things to reconstruct than metanarratives of universal progress. But the politics we've inherited is warped by such frameworks. The "entry into modernity" may be seen as a reorientation of history: the elevation of the future, no longer regarded as more-of-the-same but as a new world in which existing problems would be solved (and not replaced by new ones), and the corresponding demotion of the past. This involved a reimagining of "human nature", abandoning previous ideas of the limits of self-determination (see Radical Heresy).

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