2016 Anthropocene Consortium Series, Evergreen State College - START 10:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWQ2JYFwJWU
Category: Philosophy
Eugene Holland – The Image of Thought in A Thousand Plateaus
Turtles… dialectics all the way down
"Biology has traditionally defined individuals by the criteria of anatomy (organisms separated from the environment), physiology (organisms whose parts work toward a common end), development (organisms derived from a common precursor cell), genetics (autopoietic organisms whose cells contain the same genome), immunology (organisms that reject non-self), and evolution (that which is selected). Recent studies show … Continue reading Turtles… dialectics all the way down
Reenacting Science: Bruno Latour at SCIENCE GALLERY
A far more digestible insight into Latour's current thinking than his excellent Gifford lectures. Outlines his view of how science and politics may need to merge in view of the threat posed by climate change denial, how he relates to Peter Sloterdijk's thoughts on envelopes etc and how these may relate to 21st century art in … Continue reading Reenacting Science: Bruno Latour at SCIENCE GALLERY
Donna Haraway: “From Cyborgs to Companion Species”
Donna Haraway presented her lecture as the 2003-2004 Avenali Chair in the Humanities at the Townsend Center for the Humanities, UC Berkeley. Haraway is a prominent theorist of the relationships between people and machines, and her work has incited debate in fields as varied as primatology, philosophy, and developmental biology. Haraway's The Cyborg Manifesto, … Continue reading Donna Haraway: “From Cyborgs to Companion Species”
A quick intro to embodied cognition and robotics with Andy Clark and Barbara Webb
Graham Harman: Objects and the Arts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ0GR9bf00g ICA London Published on 27 Mar 2014 Contemporary American philosopher Graham Harman, the leading figure associated with the metaphysical movement object-oriented ontology, delivers his lecture Objects and the Arts. In this lecture the founder of object-oriented philosophy will discuss the implications of this philosophy for the arts. After explaining why objects are withheld from … Continue reading Graham Harman: Objects and the Arts
Extended Mind
I'm really enjoying the Extended Mind (Ed. Menary) and Supersizing the Mind (Clark) collections of essays. Thinking about object based learning for my workshops led me to this territory and it is remarkable how much it all resonates with my reading of James, Dewey and Mead and how it has influenced my thinking about creative … Continue reading Extended Mind
Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
Hubert Dreyfus on Merleau Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception series of 30 lectures by the Heideggerian and author of "What Computers still can't do" and "On the Internet" Nature and Natural Science in Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology. Professor Thomas Baldwin (York) talk from the Human Experience and Nature, Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference 2011, UWE, Bristol. Science Friction: … Continue reading Merleau Ponty’s Phenomenology of Perception
Bruno Latour’s Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh 2013
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC3E6vdQEzk&list=PLEA9467E8E8D991AE Religion, Science, Politics in the Anthropocene
Joey O'Gorman 