{"id":1946,"date":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2010\/01\/12\/i-just-want-to-climb-rocks-is-that-too-much-to-ask\/"},"modified":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"i-just-want-to-climb-rocks-is-that-too-much-to-ask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2010\/01\/12\/i-just-want-to-climb-rocks-is-that-too-much-to-ask\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I Just Want to Climb Rocks. Is That too much to Ask?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Can my life be defined by a sport? <\/p>\n<p>\u201cClimbing is a rich enough experience that it can be a valid focus for your life&#8230;. you can say I\u2019m a rock climber and that, if anybody understands it, has as much value as anything else you can spend a day doing.\u201d-Todd Skinner. <\/p>\n<p>Project Object and Aims<br \/>\nThe object I have chosen for my project is the way in which I centre my life around rock climbing.<br \/>\nIn contemporary society, life tends to be primarily focused on one\u2019s job. Activities such as climbing are defined as pastimes. My project aims to ascertain whether I can, in contemporary society, define myself by my sport. This is relevant to a wide audience, since, in my conclusions, climbing can be replaced with whatever one wishes to orient oneself towards. <\/p>\n<p>Philosophy<br \/>\nThe key thinkers I will investigate in my work are: <\/p>\n<p>Manuel Castells who writes explicitly on the idea of \u201cresistance\u201d and \u201cproject\u201d identities as a means of constructing real identity <\/p>\n<p>Michel Foucault who formulates a theory of power which affects choosing an identity in contemporary society. <\/p>\n<p>Gianni Vattimo advances the position of weak nihilism as a means of viewing a society which has a plurality of worldviews.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Young, 2010, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[564,22,123],"tags":[463,28,239],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-564","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-castells","tag-identity","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}