Some say we are at the end of time. If this is true, and all we have is today then pleasure and the politics of joy might just be the thing to make time for. Yet the pleasure we are addressing is not the hedonistic pleasures of the anti-woke, we are dealing with a responsible sense of joy that is grounded in solidarity, an activism that is inclusive for all that embraces our collective and interdependent living ecology; my body, your body and our earth. 

This year our philosophical enquiry addresses the prerequisites needed to feel free; what do we need freedom from and what do we want freedom to? Freedom and liberation are always pleasurable experiences and are productive in essence, they present as a furthering of our potential. Considering our collective privilege, we will co-investigate ideas of individual and collective pleasure and freedom. Building a community of pleasure activists, we will determine through a collective manifesto how we wish to emerge from this time and our potential as agents of change. Throughout this academic year (2020 - 2021) we will question how personal and social transformation can become the most pleasurable experiences we can have? 

Artwork Ashley Lukashevsky