Making and Unmaking Worlds: Towards Liberation Beyond Subjectivity

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dc.contributor.advisorRussell, Camisha
dc.contributor.authorFriaz, Ricardo
dc.date.accessioned2024-08-07T23:03:46Z
dc.date.issued2024-08-07
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation develops the concept of liberation by questioning what it means to destroy, abolish, and create worlds. I develop a critical position towards agential or subject-based accounts of liberation in order to think through Abolitionist and Decolonial accounts of mourning and collective world-making. I trace the endurance of historical processes of slavery and colonialism and their violent effects today, and I discuss contemporary police torture and migrant camps to reflect on practices of observing world destruction that do not center a subject of liberation. I give a critical account of the contemporary organization of the world around the Cartesian subject, and develop an alternative account of the world by drawing on Spinoza’s account of substance and bodily knowing. I conclude by developing an account of world creation by engaging with Lugones’ account of world-traveling and playfulness along with Winnicott’s theories of the playground and transitional object.en_US
dc.description.embargo2026-07-23
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/29861
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregon
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.
dc.subjectabolitionen_US
dc.subjectcritical philosophy of raceen_US
dc.subjectdecolonizationen_US
dc.subjectplayfulnessen_US
dc.subjectSpinozaen_US
dc.subjectworldsen_US
dc.titleMaking and Unmaking Worlds: Towards Liberation Beyond Subjectivity
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation
thesis.degree.disciplineDepartment of Philosophy
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Oregon
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
thesis.degree.namePh.D.

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