‘a philosopHER walks’

Philosopher Dr Kathrine Cuccuru is walking the world, without and within.

My project is to experience and reflect on forms of walking. To variously become a peripatetic, a pilgrim, a pedestrian, a rambler/hiker/bush walker, a flâneur(se), to name a few. Importantly, as a she, this philosopHER, subverts, transgresses, and reimagines the traditionally male freedom to walk, particularly, as a philosophical practice. Basically, I am going to start putting one foot in front of the other and see where I end up…

Long Distance Launch Event! Stage Three ‘a philosopHER walks’
Join me in person on Sunday 23 April, 3-4pm in The Round George’s function room, 14-15 Sutherland Avenue, Brighton, BN2 0EQ. You will have an opportunity to ASK ME ANYTHING! about the project. And together we can celebrate the excitement and trepidation of beginning the continuous long walk around and across the United Kingdom, and potentially beyond. All WELCOME. I look forward to meeting you then!
Drifting, walking for surviving and thriving: Stage Two of ‘a philosopHER walks’
[Content Note: swear words, discussion of poverty and chronic illness] I am drifting. Untethered, unfettered, movement. Seeing where it takes me, rather than where I am taken. An important difference. To drift purposefully without purpose, by choosing to actively, playfully, encounter the world just outside (or even within) our door, radically resists the reactive, purposeless drifting from one worldly demand to another. It offers space to just be and be with—to honour our most neglected human needs. In an important sense my choice, this purpose, has been borne out having no other choice. Yet again, all I want to do… Read more: Drifting, walking for surviving and thriving: Stage Two of ‘a philosopHER walks’
Pedestrian at Best: Stage One of ‘a philosopHER walks’
[Content note: swear words] All I want to do is walk. Me and my pack and (my first thought) the entire south west coast of England. From the official website, it looks like all of the national trail can be walked right now, and a further website welcome that it could be walked by all of us right now. But no, not by me. So I look again. Closer to my current home, I find a ‘new’ old pilgrimage trail along the south coast of England. From the official website, it looks like it can be all be walked right… Read more: Pedestrian at Best: Stage One of ‘a philosopHER walks’