itineraries

Itineraries is a collective journey through the many dreamscapes of Simon’s Rock borne out of our individual engagements with the college, what it represents, and that which it gives us access to. Using Simon’s Rock as a temporal, spatial, and experiential point of reference, we will share moments of our academic journeys (as artifact, story, etc) not only to broaden our perspective on this institution or more generally scholarship, but to explore how and which of our unique knowledges and experiences can live in the commons. Most fundamentally, the commons is the realm of that which belongs to us as humans and that which we are entitled to because of our evolutionary and social history. Such things exist in the commons as the human compulsion to explore and learn, the drive to seek and determine what is worthy, the responsibility to self-actualize as well as the biological, technological, and conceptual developments (our words, our bodies, common meanings) that our ancestors achieved to serve these ends. In the current day, this shared wealth is under conquest by such things as particular regimes of sense/meaning making, ideas about the body as an instrument, stifling delimitations of space, and strict control of timescales perpetuated equally by those who have something to gain from this deception as the lesser parts of our own selves serving its own ends. As such, the notion of the commons becomes germane to us precisely because sharing liminal moments from our journeys becomes an act of deliberate renegotiation of what is possible and what is out there, a renegotiation only accessible as a community. Please join us in exploring what can be when our journeys are able to meet, however briefly, when cohesion not withdrawal is the ultimate subversion.

Interested?

Contact Neehar at ngirimaji18@simons-rock.edu to ask how you can get involved!