Category: Society
Donna Haraway – Making Oddkin in the Chthulucene
2016 Anthropocene Consortium Series, Evergreen State College - START 10:45 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWQ2JYFwJWU
Sarah Richardson – Exceptional and unconformable phenomena: Maternal effects and the epistemologies of the life sciences
https://youtu.be/AIyMr6mH11s This talk draws on the intellectual history of maternal effects science to pose the question: What forms of scientific practice and discourse result when life scientists encounter phenomena that persistently rebuff study, control, and optimization, and which demand a high tolerance for uncertainty? The science of maternal effects posits that in addition to transmitting … Continue reading Sarah Richardson – Exceptional and unconformable phenomena: Maternal effects and the epistemologies of the life sciences
Interview with Agustin Fuentes about primate cooperation and human origins
"the future of the study of human evolution is gonna be big team based projects" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upRFk2b2vas
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
Why do societies collapse? Jared Diamond
Why do societies fail? With lessons from the Norse of Iron Age Greenland, deforested Easter Island and present-day Montana, Jared Diamond talks about the signs that collapse is near, and how — if we see it in time — we can prevent it. https://www.ted.com/talks/jared_diamond_on_why_societies_collapse?language=en
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”
Mycogeddon
Paul Stamets' patent could destroy Monsanto's grip on the pesticide industry using mushrooms https://www.minds.com/blog/view/422130907919421440/paul-stamets039-patent-could-destroy-monsanto039s-grip-on-the-pesticide-industry-using-mushrooms Why poison your food if you don't have to? In this post-industrial culture of getting as much as you can out of as little space as possible, increasing profit, regardless of ecological impact; we have birthed a slew of new ideas … Continue reading Mycogeddon
UN sustainable development goals 2015
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/ The 17 proposed Sustainable Development Goals 1. End poverty in all its forms everywhere 2. End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture 3. Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages 4. Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all 5. Achieve … Continue reading UN sustainable development goals 2015
Joey O'Gorman 