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Freedom — Intervals of Anaclastic Liberty

🎧 Freedom – Intervals of Anaclastic Liberty What happens to freedom when the scaffold gives way to the smartphone screen? In this episode I follow the word liberty across two and a half millennia: from the cold air around the Paris guillotine back to the Athenian agora, and forward into the quiet architectures of the digital age. I trace how Greek eleutheria for male citizens rested on slaves, women, and foreigners pushed into the background; how Christian libertas spiritus promised freedom of the soul while Joan of Arc and Eleanor of Aquitaine passed through courts, prisons, and dynastic bargains written by men. Renaissance virtù and Baroque monarchy raised a few blazing individuals onto a stage of power, while the Enlightenment preached universal rights over ledgers filled with slave cargoes and sugar plantations. From abolitionist revolts to the Russian Revolution, I walk alongside Shestov, Berdyaev, and the Lwów–Warsaw School, treating them as companions who insist that freedom always slips away from finished systems. Then I step into the present: surveillance capitalism, digital identity, programmable money, pandemic governance, Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm, The Truman Show, and the information wars around Ukraine and Palestine—all as evidence that every wound to truth eats into liberty itself. Out of this journey I propose a new pair of concepts: anaclastic liberty and interrupted freedom—brief, charged intervals in which a person or a community bends an imposed trajectory and lets inconvenient reality crash through the curated feed. I end with a forecast of the struggle I see ahead: between “empires of smoothing,” which polish life into seamless prediction, and “republics of interruption,” which fight to preserve attention, opacity, and shared verification as the last conditions for living freely inside the systems we have built. If you prefer reading to listening, the full episode also exists as an essay: https://martinsmallridgewriter.blog/f... And if it speaks to you, you are welcome to wander through the other texts gathered on my site: https://martinsmallridgewriter.blog/