Sorry about Dawkin's - somebody has to represent the outmoded and corrosive! https://youtu.be/gaUXNJxRDjw
Intensive and Topological Thinking
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wW2l-nBIDg http://www.egs.edu/ (2011) Manuel Delanda, contemporary philosopher, discusses Gilles Deleuze, bodies without organs, nature, intensive difference, physics, complexity, systems thinking, and the two remaining reasoning styles, intensive and topological thinking.
Topographies of a Nested Soul
A meditation on Information Philosophy, graph theory, and the four humors. Thanks Christiana for the invite to perform at Vanishing Entities. It was great to test out the live drawing and projection. Thanks to Roderick for volunteering to read the text... it was a suitably disruptive reading! See documentation here. Thanks to Paul, Leonie and … Continue reading Topographies of a Nested Soul
Biology In An Age Of Technoscience
Biology In An Age Of Technoscience by Hilary and Steven Rose "For those of us seeking to extend social justice in the world we should be fighting for a different kind of science" argue Hilary and Steven Rose.
Scientific Pluralism and the Mission of History and Philosophy of Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGUsIf9qYw8 Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hasok Chang, Hans Rausing Professor of History and Philosophy of Science.
‘Picturing Objectivity’
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/events/picturing_objectivity.php A panel discussion with Peter Galison, Sabine Kastner, Terry Winters, and D Graham Burnett.
Festival of Pots
curated by Helen Pike http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/museums/2014/01/24/festival-of-pots/
Memorandoms of James Martin exhibition
It was a pleasure to work on the exhibition about the amazing escape, capture and trial of a group of men and women transported to Australia in the late eighteenth century. As well as marking the 250th anniversary of the events the exhibition highlighted UCL founder Jermey Bentham's opposition to transportation. See this link for … Continue reading Memorandoms of James Martin exhibition
Largactyl Shuffle@Science Museum LATES book
It was great to be involved in the first few Largactyl Shuffle walks at the Science Museum LATES evenings. CoolTan is a great arts charity on the Walworth road just down from Elephant which provides support and opportunities for people suffering from mental distress. We transformed the Largactyl Shuffle into a series of guided tours around … Continue reading Largactyl Shuffle@Science Museum LATES book
Science on Drugs
Science on Drugs David Nutt will reflect on his ten years’ experience on the government’s Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs until 2010, and present new analyses comparing the harms of drugs and alcohol using more sophisticated methodology. David Nutt is Edmond J Safra Professor of Neuropsychology at Imperial College London. He was chair … Continue reading Science on Drugs