Joonas S. Martikainen

I'm an aspiring researcher from beautiful Porvoo, Finland. I was born in Turku, Finland in 1987. When I'm not engaged in writing or thinking, alongside looking after our two cats my hobbies include books, podcasting, playing around with cheap synthetizers and old videogames, and having good conversations over beers with friends. I have an active interest in different traditions of Zen Buddhism, something which appears to converge marvellously with my work with in phenomenology.

I began my doctoral studies in 2016 in the discipline of Practical Philosophy in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki. I will receive my doctorate from the University of Helsinki in March 2021. I am currently applying for funding and positions to continue my research. I am currently affiliated with the University of Helsinki.

My future research interests circle around phenomenology, Hannah Arendt, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and phenomenological critiques of the conceptions of freedom and the subject as espoused by the Western philosophical tradition. My upcoming work will investigate the temporal aspect of our relationship to our social environment. I have a strong suspicion that our experience of time is an aspect of intentional experience which is connected to our social situation and our share in inequally shared social goods such as employment, a fact heretofore left mostly unexamined by political philosophy and theory.

This site is hosted on Neocities, in opposition to, and as an alternative to exploitative social media platforms. I am committed to making internet about fun, freedom and discovery again, the principles behind what we knew as Web 1.0.