Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: The Politics of Pluriverse.

• Author: Haroon, Sehrish

Savarnsky, Martin. Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: The Politics of Pluriverse. Duke University Press, 2021. x + 201 pages, Paperback, $24.95.

The pluriverse is an intertwined concept hanging loosely along weak threads, making it difficult to elaborate. The author talks about the simultaneous existence of worlds inside the world and accepts the concept to be too complicated and too abstract to be explained easily with the existing ontological approaches. The book consists of six chapters with each one an attempt to explore various dimensions of the multiple universes existing.

The colonial and rational setup has paved the way to explain the world we are living in a unified form. The author posits the universe to be ongoing and unfinished. Keeping this proposition in front the word 'and' carries higher significance for effectively describing the pluriverse. The contention of the author is to question the inadequacy of explanatory power of tools when it comes to reality because reality manifests itself through how it feels. The noteworthy point is that experience gives validity to reality and here experience is defined as essential ingredient of everything.

The metaphysics works in 'all inclusive system' however the author supports the argument of expanding the existing systems for incorporating worlds within world. The proposition turns out to be weak because of its incapacity to fulfill rationality criteria in failing to provide sufficient reasoning. Pluralism actually calls for decolonization for it to be adjusted in modalities that tend to demarcate the phenomenon they deem real. Conversely, the challenge it faces is of lacking concrete boundaries.

The author contends that in order to understand the universe, observing all the components are important. The mystical realities are calling out and waiting to be heard. An important question comes before us, 'what is reality capable of?' The struggle with finding the answers is sometimes hastily attempting to clearly define the nature of reality all at once. In this regard, even magic cannot be ignored and can bring forth reality concept. The issue of realism is not universal in nature yet in this case it throws light on problems falling within the range of solving. The reader is given a challenge of 'not seeing different things but learning to see things differently.'

The problem lays in the fact that contemporary metaphysics does not have the capacity to dictate how the other realities...