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Isolating connections–connecting isolations

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2009, Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human …

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The varied and distinct ways we connect can facilitate or impose isolation, our own or someone else's. Different forms of isolation are themselves interconnected and sometimes enrich our connecting. The relation between isolation and connection, we argue, is one of complementarity, like Calvino's 'two inseparable and complementary functions of life … syntony, or participation in the world around us … [and] focalization or constructive concentration.' Solitude sought can enhance connections. Imposed isolation weakens connections in ways both obvious and subtle. This contrast between sought and imposed underscores the influence of hierarchy and socially produced inequities, excesses of which fragment the social ties that could constrain or diminish these same inequities. Deep inequity degrades the quality of both connections and isolation, at significant costs to our health, ecology, economy, cultural diversity, and political vitality. From this vantage point, we cull ways to improve our syntony and our focalization, fulfilling by expressing those shared egalitarian moral sentiments that motivate connections of solidarity partly in the interest of being "left alone".

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Environment echoes voices, yet I feel alone Living seems lifeless; there is life in stone All ears are busy, talking on the Phone. Life in 21 st century is all about digitalization of our dreams, choices, and leisure. Everything is being digitalized into a small screen through wireless connection. People are freely busying themselves on phones and devises. Isolation was considered evil or antisocial condition where a man feels alone, neglected, unwanted or not loved by people around. In schools scoundrels were isolated by other students. In a peer group, dubious, notorious, hostile or unsavory too were isolated. Hence, isolation was an indirect punishment. Isolation either made one to think of wrong or unpleasant aspect of personality hidden or it made them to rectify such unpleasantries. Colloquially it is termed as "the hotbox, the Hole, lockedown,"Segregation, separation, cellular, Supermax, Secure Housing Unit...etc in ABSTRACT Life in 21 st century is all about digitalization of everything. People are freely busying themselves on phones and devises. This paper deals with the paradigm shift in man's behavior in comprehending Isolation which was desired for spiritual awakening or it was used as a punishment to rectify wrongs done. Today isolation is a desired phenomenon provided that the person has a device (cell phones) to spend time. People are found chatting or surfing for hours on their mobiles without speaking a word to the persons physically near to them. Hence, the word 'isolation' which was always undesired, needs to be redefined today. Isolation does not only mean to keep someone apart or away from society. It is being social on social networks individually. Thus, the paper attempts to redefine the concept of isolation from the observation of the present social situation. We find more Netizens than Citizens around us who are happy in their virtual world compared to the real world where they live. Such citizen live only to spend their valuable time on internet and social networking cites. Hence, isolation is no more a curse but a reward for such netizens.

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The Silent Battle: Social Isolationism in the 21st Century
Ijechi Nazirah Nwaozuzu
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Solidarity and Social Distancing
Gerald J. Beyer

Together for the Common Good Leading Thinkers, 2020

In a pandemic solidarity requires us to be apart.

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SOLITUDE, LONELINESS AND MARGINALIZATION: SOCIO-POLITICAL INDICATORS OF THE QUALITY OF OUR TOGETHERNESS
Henrieta Serban

Romanian Review of Political Sciences and International Relations, 2020

Solitude is a kind of initiatic labyrinth, accessible for the human being and, within limits, rather beneficial. Loneliness is a socio-political situation, not merely a personal state. First, we acknowledge the solitude of human interiority, a universe where thoughts, inspiration and memories resonate. Conscience speaks louder in solitude. Right there one encounters the poetic, the metaphysical calling or even the political projects of emancipation and the vindications that gain contour as socio-political faces and facets of solitude (the diverse versions of loneliness) emerge and attain meaning. The genius, the philosopher, the poet, the revolutionary and the misfit confront solitude, while challenging the predetermined order of the world. Everyday people have their own contributions to creativity and historicity, too. For example, for the Romanian philosopher Lucian Blaga (1895-1961), the human being is destined to acquire knowledge and confront the tremendous all-encompassing force of mystery, through thought, inspiration and creativity. The study investigates the political connection of loneliness with marginalization, indoctrination, individualism, neoliberalism, excessive mobility, new technologies, generational change, social media and virtual realms. Solitude is rather a socio-political trump and an entitlement related to the right over someone's own person and to the right to happiness. Loneliness is political: it poses questions that address our commitment to sociality and togetherness and emphasizes their shortcomings. Solitude and loneliness are the two eloquent extremes according to which we might describe with precision the quality of our togetherness.

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The Role of Solitude in the Politics of Sociability
Anca Gheaus

Being Social. The Philosophy of Social Human Rights, 2022

This chapter explores a so-far neglected way of avoiding the bads of loneliness: by learning to value solitude, where that is understood as a state of 'keeping oneself company', as J. David Velleman puts it. Unlike loneliness, solitude need not involve any deprivation, whether subjective or objective. This chapter considers the various goods to which solitude is constitutive or instrumental, with a focus on the promise that proper valuing of solitude holds for combating loneliness. The overall argument is this: If loneliness significantly detracts from individual wellbeing, and if the ability to value solitude protects against loneliness, then such an ability is obviously valuable to human flourishing. If, further, loneliness raises concerns of justice, then supporting people's ability to value solitude is a way to implement a desideratum of justice. Individuals can cultivate their ability to value solitude, an ability that others can promote or hinder.

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