French philosopher, anthropologist and sociologist
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durée : 00:47:45 - La Terre au carré - par : Mathieu Vidard - En 1990, le peintre et navigateur remporte le premier Vendée Globe, mais c'est la peinture qui depuis toujours l'anime. Avec "Sous les étoiles" (Gallimard) il s'intéresse au concept de la "Zone critique" du philosophe Bruno Latour, en peignant les flamboyantes interactions du vivant océanien. - invités : Titouan Lamazou - Titouan Lamazou : Navigateur, artiste et écrivain - réalisé par : Jérôme BOULET
Halfway through one of my favorite sci-fi novels, Charles Stross' Accelerando, we tune in to the members of an interstellar first contact mission as they pass the time debating whether the Technological Singularity has happened yet. Spoiler alert: all of them are uploaded minds appearing in a consensus VR environment as various post-human avatars, riding inside a computer the size of a grain of rice on a craft the size of a soda can. To readers it seems like a satire: what, if not this, would it take to convince you we're over the rainbow? But good science fiction provokes us to question the present, and so we must ask: what are we waiting for? Are we still moderns? Is this still Western civilization? Should we be looking forward to the age of machine superintelligence, or has it already happened, like physicist Cosma Shalizi argues in his blog post “The Singularity in Our Past Light-Cone”? Here's a clip from that piece:Exponential yet basically unpredictable growth of technology, rendering long-term extrapolation impossible (even when attempted by geniuses)? Check.Massive, profoundly dis-orienting transformation in the life of humanity, extending to our ecology, mentality and social organization? Check.Annihilation of the age-old constraints of space and time? Check.Embrace of the fusion of humanity and machines? Check.Creation of vast, inhuman distributed systems of information-processing, communication and control, "the coldest of all cold monsters"? Check; we call them "the self-regulating market system" and "modern bureaucracies”.Maybe we ought to consider, like Bruno Latour, that We Have Never Been Modern. Or maybe, as Federico Campagna suggests in Prophetic Culture, each era's inhabitants identify as “modern” and project the “likely story” produced by their process of “worlding” to imagine futures that recede like mirages or rainbows as we approach the horizon of our understanding? By the time we arrive, we have transformed and the mysteries of the ancient and future are conserved. Some Indigenous cultures believe that all animals identify as “people” — perhaps every world is mundane to its native observers, and yet all of them arise out of chaos and ineffability. Science can't answer some questions because it depends on replicability and provisional consensus, and some questions ultimately force us out of attempts to get everything to make sense and into contemplative surrender to our own cognitive limits (no matter how much we augment ourselves).Science will, of course, continue. As Ted Chiang wrote twenty five years ago in his short story “Catching Crumbs from The Table”, advancements in AI and biotechnology could foreseeably “[leave] journals to publish second-hand accounts translated into human language… Journals for human audiences were reduced to vehicles of popularization, and poor ones at that, as even the most brilliant humans found themselves puzzled by translations of the latest findings… Some left the field altogether, but those who stayed shifted their attentions away from original research and toward hermeneutics: interpreting the scientific work of metahumans.”In 2025, living through the superexponential evolution of machine intelligence, this story hits close to home. What will we do when all breakthroughs are made by black box AI systems whose logic and insights evade us? We already have to take large language models on faith, doing our best to conserve a modest sliver of understanding as we resign ourselves to the practical benefits of successful but illegible prediction. But given that scientific progress has largely advanced through the proliferation of hyperspecialist experts who cannot understand one another's research, we should again ask if it were ever the case that we could explain everything, or whether we've just been ignoring the central importance of textual interpretation as we puzzled over the riddles of a world that never owed us any satisfying final answers?Whether we're modern or not, it is time for us to reconsider the foundations of ideas like informed consent, agency, evidence, and personhood. Whether you think we're still waiting around for the future or that we are living it, we live among an ecology of diverse intelligences and require a humbler approach…one strangely similar to that of Medieval serfs and jungle-dwelling foragers than first seems obvious…one that owes back pay to the dismissed disciplines of religion, magic, and myth. Which is why I'm excited to get weird with you in this episode.This week I speak with one of my closest comrades in philosophical investigation, Canadian author and film-maker J.F. Martel. Co-founder and co-host (with Phil Ford) of the internationally-acclaimed Weird Studies Podcast and Weirdosphere online learning platform, tenured para-academic explorer of high strangeness and the liminal zones between the known, unknown, and unknowable, J.F. is a perfect partner with whom to refine inquiry into persistent and tricky questions like:– What is the nature of technology and how does it change as our seemingly-discrete tools and built environments merge into a planet-scale thinking machine?– How can we tell when AI achieves personhood, and what does it take to be “good parents” of beings that are fundamentally beyond our control?– What can religion and fairy tales teach us about living well in a world where our explanatory frameworks fail us?– How can we re-think and re-claim healthy institutions to serve human flourishing after the end of history as we know it?Subscribe, Rate, & Comment on YouTube • Apple Podcasts • SpotifyPlease consider becoming a patron or making tax-deductible monthly contributions at every.org/humansontheloop. (You'll get all the same perks.)J.F.'s LinksReclaimingArt.comWeirdStudies.comWeirdosphere.orgJF on X | Weird Studies Discord & SubRedditReclaiming Art in The Age of Artifice (book)Project LinksRead the project pitch & planning docDig into the full episode and essay archivesJoin the online commons for Wisdom x Technology on DiscordThe Future Fossils Discord Server abides!Contact me about partnerships, consulting, your life, or other mysteriesChapters0:00:00 - Teaser0:01:01 - Introduction0:09:32 - Revisiting Reclaiming Art in The Age of Artifice0:15:12 - What we lose and gain by automating culture0:31:12 - Wendell Berry's poem “A Timbered Choir”0:36:50 - Transcendental, Machinic, Immanental, Imaginal, and Fractal0:46:21 - Black Box Personhood & AI as A 'Thou'1:00:00 - Is AI Magic?1:06:10 - Fairy Tales, Faith, and Submission after Modernity1:10:27 - Do we still need institutions?1:16:59 - Thanks & AnnouncementsBack Catalogue FF 18 - J.F. Martel on Art, Magic, & The Terrifying Zone of Uncanny AwesomenessFF 71 - J.F. Martel on Sequels & Simulacra, Blade Runner 2049 & Stranger Things 2WS 26 Living in a Glass AgeFF 126 - Phil Ford & JF Martel on Weird Studies & Plural RealitiesJRS Currents 064: Michael Garfield and J.F. Martel on Art x AIFF 214 - J.F. Martel, Phil Ford, & Megan Phipps on Weird Cybernetics: Waking Up From The EcstasyFF 231 - Eric Wargo & J.F. Martel on Art as Precognition, Biblically-Accurate A.I., and How to Navigate Ruptures in Space-TimeMentioned MediaWalter Benjamin's “The Work of Art in The Age of Mechanical Reproduction”Erik Hoel's “Curious George and the case of the unconscious culture”New York Encounter (event)Art is dead. Long live Art with Android Jones | Mind Meld 323 Third Eye DropsCosma Shalizi & Henry Farrell's “Artificial Intelligence is a Familiar-Looking Monster”Sigmund Freud's Beyond The Pleasure PrincipleWendell Berry's “A Timbered Choir”Henri Corbin's “Mundus Imaginalis or the Imaginary and the Imaginal”William Irwin Thompson's Imaginary LandscapesDanny Hillis' “The Enlightenment Is Dead. Long Live The Entanglement”Neri Oxman's “The Age of Entanglement”David Krakauer's “Emergent Engineering”Kevin Kelly's Out of ControlFF 150 - A Unifying Meta-Theory of UFOs & The Weird with Sean Esbjörn-HargensFF 223 - Timothy Morton on A New Christian Ecology & Systems Thinking BlasphemyTop Aerospace Scientists Suspect UFOs are Biblical Time Machines | Diana Walsh Pasulka on The Danny Jones PodcastZiwei Xu et al.'s “Hallucination is Inevitable: An Innate Limitation of Large Language Models”Isaac Asimov's FoundationGilles Deleuze's Difference and RepetitionOther MentionsDonna TartMatt CardinMichael PhilipBenoit MandelbrotJames AllenGregory BatesonDavid HumeGottfried LeibnizL. Ron HubbardErik DavisCarl JungJacques LacanAlbert CamusJean-Paul SartreCurt JaimungalStafford BeerCarl SaganJames HillmanPhil FordMarie-Louise von FranzGK ChestertonEdmund Burke This is a public episode. 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Neues Special! Jens und Christian sprechen über den Essay “Landkrank” von Nikolaj Schultz. Nikolaj Schultz ist Soziologe und Schüler von Bruno Latour, er hat mit ihm unter anderem das Konzept einer “ökologischen Klasse” entwickelt. In “Landkrank”, einer Mischung aus Ethnografie, philosophischen Überlegungen und Urlaubsnovelle, reflektiert Schultz unsere persönlichen Verwicklungen in die Klimakatastrophe und mögliche Wege heraus. Jens ist von diesem Text (gelinde gesagt!) überhaupt nicht angetan und auch Christian hat so seine Zweifel. Das ist aber nur der Teaser, wenn ihr die ganze Folge hören wollt, dann unterstüzt uns auf steadyhq.com/geister. Dann bekommt ihr jeden Monat ein Special und könnt unserem Discord-Server beitreten, auf dem wir die Texte vorher diskutieren.
We discuss the four modes of coaching and navigate career growth in expanding / contracting companies with James Birchler. James shares highlights from the recent coaching / mentoring workshop he facilitated, and breaks down how each mode of coaching differs tactically. We also cover the dilemma of linear career/leadership growth vs. exponential company growth, different common communication challenges eng leaders face, why people / organizational challenges are harder than technical issues, and how to prepare for & execute uncomfortable conversations. James also shares his unique journey to technical leadership & how past management roles – even in non-tech spaces – have helped shape his thoughts on coaching & eng leadership today.ABOUT JAMES BIRCHLERJames Birchler is an engineering and product development leader, technical advisor, and an accredited Executive Coach from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Executive Coaching Institute.In his coaching practice, James focuses on self-awareness, integrity, accountability, and fostering a growth mindset that supports continuous learning and high performance.He focuses his technical advisory practice on common mechanisms and playbooks required at different phases and inflection points of startup growth and scaling: Hiring and interviewing, product development methodologies including Lean Startup and Agile, operational meeting cadence and communication flow, people management, technical leadership, vision/mission development, alignment, and execution.James implemented the Lean Startup methodologies with Eric Ries at IMVU (literally the first Lean Startup), where his team helped start the DevOps movement by building the infrastructure to ship code to production 50 times a day (which was a lot at the time!) and coining the term “continuous deployment.”He has more than 20 years of experience leading high-performance teams in growth environments, including startups and scaled organizations, including Amazon. He has delivered great consumer software products and implemented product development and innovation processes based on continuous learning and improvement.Presently James advises and coaches Series A+ startups in the US and Europe, and leads innovation practices in hyper-growth areas of last mile delivery technology for Amazon. Previously my roles included VP of Engineering & Operations, VP of Engineering, and Founder at several technology startups including IMVU, Caffeine.tv, SmugMug, iCracked, The Arts Coop, and Letters & Science.You can find James at jamesbirchler.com, LinkedIn, and Substack.SHOW NOTES:Highlights from James' recent coaching & mentoring workshop (2:41)Shared challenges around building trust in eng teams (5:25)The differences between coaching vs. mentoring (7:01)Building trust in order to best support your team members as a manager (9:38)Defining the advising mode of coaching (11:54)How supporting differs from advising (14:29)The story behind James' technical leadership journey (16:55)Transitioning from a PhD program & environmental planning career into tech (20:19)The dilemma of career growth: linear leadership growth vs. exponential company growth (23:53)Why organizational challenges are more complicated than technical puzzles (26:49)Navigating career growth during company contraction from the employee perspective (28:02)Preparing for uncomfortable conversations as a coach / manager (31:50)Strategies for actually having those tough conversations (35:36)Frameworks for helping others identify what they want (37:58)Rapid fire questions (42:44)LINKS AND RESOURCESStop 'Coaching' Your Tech Team (And What To Do Instead) - James' substack post on the four modes of development breaking down the core differences of coaching, advising, mentoring, and supporting roles and explaining how trust is the secret ingredient to all four.jamesbirchler.com - James' website where you can find info about his executive coaching and resources for engineering leaders and founders.How to lead with radical candor | Kim Scott - NYT bestselling author, Kim Scott, has cracked the code on giving valuable feedback in a way that builds genuine relationships, drives results, and creates positive workplaces.What Are People For? - In the twenty-two essays collected here, Wendell Berry conveys a deep concern for the American economic system and the gluttonous American consumer. Berry talks to the reader as one would talk to a next-door neighbor: never preachy, he comes across as someone offering sound advice. In the end, these essays offer rays of hope in an otherwise bleak forecast of America's future. Berry's program presents convincing steps for America's agricultural and cultural survival.New Happy: Getting Happiness Right in a World That's Got It Wrong - Happiness expert Stephanie Harrison draws upon hundreds of studies to offer a life-changing guide to finding the happiness you have been looking for, all based on a decade of research and brought to life with beautiful artwork.Accelerate: Building and Scaling High-Performing Technology Organizations - Through four years of groundbreaking research, Dr. Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, and Gene Kim set out to find a way to measure software delivery performance—and what drives it—using rigorous statistical methods. This book presents both the findings and the science behind that research. Readers will discover how to measure the performance of their teams, and what capabilities they should invest in to drive higher performance.Conversations on Science, Culture, and Time: Michel Serres with Bruno Latour - Although elected to the prestigious French Academy in 1990, Michel Serres has long been considered a maverick--a provocative thinker whose prolific writings on culture, science and philosophy have often baffled more than they have enlightened. In these five lively interviews with sociologist Bruno Latour, this increasingly important cultural figure sheds light on the ideas that inspire his highly original, challenging, and transdisciplinary essays.This episode wouldn't have been possible without the help of our incredible production team:Patrick Gallagher - Producer & Co-HostJerry Li - Co-HostNoah Olberding - Associate Producer, Audio & Video Editor https://www.linkedin.com/in/noah-olberding/Dan Overheim - Audio Engineer, Dan's also an avid 3D printer - https://www.bnd3d.com/Ellie Coggins Angus - Copywriter, Check out her other work at https://elliecoggins.com/about/
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Anthropologue, spécialiste de l'innovation, Daphné Marnat travaille dans l'univers de la Tech depuis une vingtaine d'années. Elle a été formée par Bruno Latour, sociologue, anthropologue, théologien et philosophe des sciences et Dominique Desjeux, sociologue spécialiste de la consommation. Elle s'est donnée une mission : la recherche des terrains de jeux qui sont à inventer dans les laboratoires et les start-up. Unbias, sa propre start-up, a été créée en 2021, mais les vrais débuts remontent à 2019, alors qu'énormément de rapports commençaient à sortir sur l'intelligence artificielle, notamment l'IA éthique. Militante féministe, elle s'est intéressée à la question des biais et des risques discriminatoires. A l'époque, elle lit le livre de la mathématicienne américaine Cathy O'Neil, Algorithmes, la bombe à retardement (Editions les Arènes) qui la réveille sur le sujet. Un réveil brutal : vingt ans de militantisme pour que rien ne change. L'IA, les algorithmes, pense-t-elle, nous aideront à régler ces problèmes systémiques. Objectif : société à mission plus qu'une start-up, en voulant utiliser l'IA pour lutter contre les discriminations sociétales. Avec Daphné, nous discutons des biais des algorithmes, de la manière de les combattre, et des vertus de l'engagement. Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.
Dalle 2 di stanotte è entrato in vigore il cessate il fuoco tra Israele e i miliziani di Hezbollah in Libano. Mediato da Stati uniti e Francia, dovrà durare almeno 60 giorni.Vincenzo Latronico, scrittore, ci racconta di Abitare la terra del filosofo Bruno Latour, di una lettera dal futuro e della breve parentesi storica in cui potremmo trovarci. Puoi scriverci a podcast@lifegate.it e trovare tutte le notizie su www.lifegate.it. Rassegna stampa: A Busan, ultima chiamata per il trattato globale sulla plastica, Maurizio Bongioanni
In Wat blijft aandacht voor de nieuwe biografie over Thea Beckman, een van de bekendste Nederlandse jeugdboekenschrijvers die vooral beroemd werd met haar historische romans. Haar grootste succes Kruistocht in spijkerbroek (1973) won meerdere prijzen en werd wereldwijd vertaald. Beckman wist als geen ander geschiedenis spannend en toegankelijk te maken voor jongeren en inspireerde generaties lezers. In Geef me de ruimte, de eerste biografie over Thea Beckman, beschrijft journalist en schrijver Vivian de Gier hoe Beckman altijd haar eigen weg koos als schrijver en feminist. Lara Billie Rense praat met de Gier over het leven en werk van Beckman, en waarom zij – ondanks dat het haar werd afgeraden – tóch een biografie over haar schreef. In het tweede uur en de podcast van Wat blijft: In de podcast Wat Blijft hoor je de komende weken de 12-delige serie Grote Geesten over indrukwekkende denkers uit de Humanistische Canon. Van Aristoteles tot Hannah Arendt en van Simone De Beauvoir tot James Baldwin. Wat hebben zij betekend? Wat kunnen we leren van hun leven en denken? En hoe leven zij voort? In de derde aflevering volgt Fleur Jurgens het spoor terug van de Franse socioloog en filosoof Bruno Latour. Latour, geboren in 1947 in een wijnfamilie in de Bourgogne, was een intellectueel die meer dan 40 jaar een belangrijke rol speelde in debatten over kennisvorming, politiek en klimaat. Hij zag de praktijk van de wetenschap door een nieuwe, caleidoscopische bril. De wetenschapper in een witte jas was slechts een radartje in het grote geheel en zogenaamde ‘feiten' waren niet heilig. En daarmee werd zijn gedachtengoed ook meteen controversieel. Zijn prikkelende stelling was: we kunnen de wereld ook vanuit het gezichtspunt van ándere mensen, van dieren, planten en zelfs objecten bekijken. Zo is het mogelijk om ze een stem te geven in een ‘parlement der dingen'. Bruno Latour overleed in 2022 in Parijs. Fleur praat met filosofisch antropoloog Arjan Kleinherenbrink die een boek over Latour schreef, geluidskunstenaar Harpo 't Hart, één van de initiatiefnemers van de Ambassade van de Noordzee die de filosofie van Latour in praktijk brengt en hoogleraar wetenschapsfilosofie Huub Dijstelbloem die in de jaren 90 bij Bruno Latour in Parijs studeerde. Presentator: Lara Billie Rense Redactie: Jessica Zoghary, Nina Ramkisoen, Geerte Verduijn, Sushmita Lageman Eindredactie: Bram Vollaers Productie: Mare de Vries
In de podcast Wat Blijft hoor je de komende weken de 12-delige serie Grote Geesten over indrukwekkende denkers uit de Humanistische Canon. Van Aristoteles tot Hannah Arendt en van Simone De Beauvoir tot James Baldwin. Wat hebben zij betekend? Wat kunnen we leren van hun leven en denken? En hoe leven zij voort? In de derde aflevering volgt Fleur Jurgens het spoor terug van de Franse socioloog en filosoof Bruno Latour. Latour, geboren in 1947 in een wijnfamilie in de Bourgogne, was een intellectueel die meer dan 40 jaar een belangrijke rol speelde in debatten over kennisvorming, politiek en klimaat. Hij zag de praktijk van de wetenschap door een nieuwe, caleidoscopische bril. De wetenschapper in een witte jas was slechts een radartje in het grote geheel en zogenaamde ‘feiten' waren niet heilig. En daarmee werd zijn gedachtengoed ook meteen controversieel. Zijn prikkelende stelling was: we kunnen de wereld ook vanuit het gezichtspunt van ándere mensen, van dieren, planten en zelfs objecten bekijken. Zo is het mogelijk om ze een stem te geven in een ‘parlement der dingen'. Hij overleed in 2022 in Parijs. Fleur praat met filosofisch antropoloog Arjan Kleinherenbrink die een boek over Latour schreef, geluidskunstenaar Harpo 't Hart, één van de initiatiefnemers van de Ambassade van de Noordzee die de filosofie van Latour in praktijk brengt, en hoogleraar wetenschapsfilosofie Huub Dijstelbloem die in de jaren 90 bij Bruno Latour in Parijs studeerde.
Dans cet épisode de So Sweet Planet, je reçois Claude Barras, le réalisateur de Ma vie de courgette - 2 César : Meilleur film d'animation et Meilleure adaptation + Nominé aux Oscars en 2017 - pour son superbe nouveau film Sauvages (ceux qui sont responsables de la déforestation et des accaparements de terre !) Nous parlons donc de déforestation, des Penan, peuple de chasseurs-cueilleurs à Bornéo, d'accaparement de terres, de biodiversité, de mondes sensibles et merveilleux… et aussi de Nancy Huston (qui a participé au scénario), des voix des petits personnages formidablement interprétées par Laetitia Dosch, Benoit Poolevorde, Gael Faye… de stop-motion, de Miyazaki, de Bruno Latour, Baptiste Morizot et Vinciane Despret, d'ambiances sonores, d'Extinction Rébellion, de "Nous sommes la nature qui se défend", de mondes sensibles, de poésie, de mondes de l'invisible, de systèmes économiques violents et moribonds, d'amour, de coeur, d'aventure, de la campagne d'impact qui accompagne le film…Le site du film et de la campagne d'impact :https://www.sauvages-lefilm.com/La bande-annonce de Sauvages"À Bornéo, à la lisière de la grande forêt tropicale, Kéria recueille un bébé orang-outan trouvé dans la plantation de palmiers à huile où travaille son père. Au même moment Selaï, son jeune cousin, vient trouver refuge chez eux pour échapper au conflit qui oppose sa famille nomade aux compagnies forestières. Ensemble, Kéria, Selaï et le bébé singe vont lutter contre la destruction de la forêt ancestrale, plus que jamais menacée. Mais pour Kéria, ce combat sera aussi l'occasion de découvrir la vérité sur ses origines."En salles le 16 octobre 2024
Barry and Mike discuss Bruno Latour's essay, “On Actor-Network Theory: A few clarifications.” They work through his key terms in an attempt to better understand the new meanings he ascribes to actors and networks and what this theory allows us to do with media theory.
Part 1 of the four episode series produced for the course Open Science for Physicists (OS4P).In this first episode of the mini series, cohosts Erik van Sebille and Sanli Faez will share their motivation for designing and teaching this course, and talk in some more about the concept of The Credibility Cycle, introduced by Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar, and the five open science schools of thought. You can find more about the course at https://github.com/SanliFaez/OS4Physicists
Rogier van Bemmel in gesprek met hoogleraar comparatieve filosofie van religie, meditatieleraar en 'filosofisch diplomaat' André van der Braak over zijn nieuwe boek 'Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity, An Ontological Approach'. "In het alledaagse leven, bekijken we de wereld als het ware door een rietje." Bronnen en links bij deze uitzending: - 'Ayahuasca as Liquid Divinity, An Ontological Approach': https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666906448/Ayahuasca-as-Liquid-Divinity-An-Ontological-Approach - De persoonlijke site van André van der Braak: https://www.avdbraak.nl/ - 'Meditatie, psychedelica en nieuwe religie', een eerder gesprek tussen Rogier en André: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRhbOB6eh-s - 'Levenslessen van de dood', Rogier in gesprek met Pim van Lommel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnoDFc2TR_4 - Het gesprek van Willem de Witte met Laurens Buijs over Bruno Latour, Carl Gustav Jung en meer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCD6KhGDf4k - Rogier in gesprek met Thomas Hertog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mZ4QeXqFy8
In this episode, we welcome philosopher André van der Braak to explore the deeper spiritual and philosophical dimensions of ayahuasca, particularly the concept of ayahuasca as "liquid divinity." Drawing on the work of French philosopher Bruno Latour, André shifts the focus from individual ayahuasca experiences to communal rituals that foster relationships with more-than-human powers. The discussion expores how ayahuasca practices transcend personal healing and visions, promoting communal transformative practices that build solidarity with all sentient beings. André's insights provide a fresh perspective on how ayahuasca can inspire deeper connections with the divine and the world around us. Tune in for a profound journey into the sacred world of ayahuasca with André van der Braak.
Daniela Russ zur Ideengeschichte des Energiebegriffs und dem Verhältnis von Natur, Energie und Arbeit. Shownotes Danielas Webseite: http://danielaruss.net/ Daniela Russ bei der Uni Leipzig: https://www.uni-leipzig.de/personenprofil/mitarbeiter/juniorprof-dr-daniela-russ Daniela Russ auf researchgate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Daniela-Russ Daniela Russ bei twitter (X): https://x.com/ueberdruss Russ, Daniela (2023) ‚Produktivistische Ökologie: Der Energiebegriff der klassischen Moderne und seine Implikationen für eine kritische Soziologie‘ (Berliner Journal für Soziologie Vol. 33, S 357-385): https://doi.org/10.1007/s11609-023-00505-0 Russ, Daniela (2022) ‚ “Socialism is not just Built for a Hundred Years”: Renewable Energy and Planetary Thought in the Early Soviet Union (1917–1945)' (Contemporary European History 31 (4), S. 491–508): https://doi.org/10.1017/S0960777322000431 Russ, Daniela (2021) ‚Energetika: Gleb Krzhizhanovskii's Conception of the Nature–Society Metabolism' (Historical Materialism 29 (2), S. 188–218): https://doi.org/10.1163/1569206X-12341887 Weitere Shownotes Thomas Lemkes relationaler Materialismus Lemke, Thomas (2021) ‘The Government of Things. Foucault and the New Materialisms': https://nyupress.org/9781479829934/the-government-of-things/ Meadows, Dennis et al. (1972) ‚Die Grenzen des Wachstums. Bericht des Club of Rome zur Lage der Menschheit‘ [engl. Original: ‚The Limits to Growth‘]: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Grenzen_des_Wachstums#1972:_Ergebnisse_der_urspr%C3%BCnglichen_Ver%C3%B6ffentlichung Mitchell, Timothy (2009) ‘Carbon democracy' (Artikel aus Economy and Society, 38(3), 399–432): https://doi.org/10.1080/03085140903020598 Mitchell, Timothy (2011) ‘Carbon democracy - Political Power in the Age of Oil' (Buch erschienen bei Verso): https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/4422161/mod_resource/content/0/Timothy%20Mitchell-Carbon%20Democracy_%20Political%20Power%20in%20the%20Age%20of%20Oil-Verso%20%282011%29.pdf [Volltext] Alexander Bogdanow – Portrait bei jacobin: https://www.jacobin.de/artikel/alexander-bogdanow-revolutionaerer-denker-und-sci-fi-pionier Gleb Krschischanowski (s. auch Danielas oben verlinkten Artikel): https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleb_Maximilianowitsch_Krschischanowski Gosplan, die sowjetische Plankommission: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosplan Artikel zur Entstehung von Gosplan unter Lenin und Krschischanowski: https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1148811.gosplan-die-notwendige-anmassung.html Lenins Imperialismusthese Lenin, Wladimir Iljitsch (1917) ‚Der Imperialismus als höchstes Stadium des Kapitalismus. Gemeinverständlicher Abriß‘ (Volltext): https://www.marxists.org/deutsch/archiv/lenin/1917/imp/index.htm Homepage von Bruno Latour: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/ Devine, Pat (1988) ‘Democracy and economic planning: the political economy of a self-governing society' (Routledge): https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9780429033117/democracy-economic-planning-pat-devine Thematisch angrenzende Folgen S02E36 | Thomas Lemke zum Regieren der Dinge: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e36-thomas-lemke-zum-regieren-der-dinge/ S03E08 | Simon Schaupp zu Stoffwechselpolitik: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e08-simon-schaupp-zu-stoffwechselpolitik/ S03E05 | Marina Fischer-Kowalski zu gesellschaftlichem Stoffwechsel: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e05-marina-fischer-kowalski-zu-gesellschaftlichem-stoffwechsel/ S03E14 | Walther Zeug zu Material- und Energieflussanalyse und sozio-metabolischer Planung: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e14-walther-zeug-zu-material-und-energieflussanalyse-und-sozio-metabolischer-planung/ S03E03 | Planning for Entropy on Sociometabolic Planning: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s03/e03-planning-for-entropy-on-sociometabolic-planning/ S02E55 | Kohei Saito on Degrowth Communism: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e55-kohei-saito-on-degrowth-communism/ S02E33 | Pat Devine on Negotiated Coordination: https://www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blog/s02/e33-pat-devine-on-negotiated-coordination/ Future Histories Kontakt & Unterstützung Wenn euch Future Histories gefällt, dann erwägt doch bitte eine Unterstützung auf Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/join/FutureHistories Schreibt mir unter office@futurehistories.today Diskutiert mit auf Twitter (#FutureHistories): https://twitter.com/FutureHpodcast auf Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/futurehistories.bsky.social auf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futurehpodcast/ oder auf Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@FutureHistories Webseite mit allen Folgen: www.futurehistories.today English webpage: https://futurehistories-international.com/ Episode Keywords #DanielaRuss, #JanGroos, #FutureHistories, #Podcast, #HistorischeSoziologie, #KritischeTheorie, #NeuerMaterialismus, #Umweltsoziologie, #Energiesoziologie, #Energiewirtschaft, #KommodifizierungDerNatur, #Neoliberalismus, #ArbeitDerNatur, #Naturkraft, #Stromnetz, #Sozialismus, #Energieökonomie, #EnergyEconomics, #SowjetischePlanung, #Planungsdebatte, #Energieplanung, #Marxismus, #GesellschaftlicheNaturverhältnisse, #ProduktivistischeÖkologie, #ÖkologischePlanung, #Ökologisch-demokratischePlanung, #Material-UndEnergieflussanalyse, #EnergetischePlanung, #Beziehungsweisen, #RelationalerMaterialismus, #EnviromentalesRegieren, #EnvironmentalGovernance, #PatDevine, #BrunoLatour, #Ressourcen
Hello Interactors,We're fully into Summer in the Northern Hemisphere, and as the earth tilts toward the sun, Interplace tilts toward the environment. And what a crucial moment to do so. Just last week, the Supreme Court made sweeping decisions that could unravel over fifty years of environmental legislation, threatening to plunge us into chaos. This upheaval comes precisely when our world's natural boundaries desperately need regulatory stability and security to make any meaningful progress in combating global warming.Let's dig in…POLLEN, POLLUTING, AND POLITICSI recently returned from the Midwest visiting family. I like looking out of the airplane window at the various crop patterns from state to state. Trying to discern which state I was over; I was reminded of a corny Midwest joke.Why do Iowa corn stalks lean to the east? Because Illinois sucks and Nebraska blows. Folks in Illinois tell the same joke, but it's Ohio that sucks and Iowa that blows. You get the idea.The truth is the wind does commonly blow from west to east oblivious to state borders. It sends whatever it wants across the border — clouds, dust, seeds, pollen…pollution. And if there's money to be made, borders become porous or disappear altogether.Those rivalrous corn jokes mirror an economic reality. Bordering states all compete for federal subsidies and access to markets — mostly across international borders. Access to these markets can be impacted by corn pollen drifting from one state to another.With the widespread adoption of genetically modified (GMO) corn varieties, there's potential for contamination of non-GMO corn fields by pollen from GMO corn fields on state lines. One study suggest cross-pollination could be detected up to 600 feet away from the source, although counts dropped off rapidly beyond 150 feet.But the more pressing concern isn't pollen drift, but pollution drift. As part of the Clean Air Act, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has a “Good Neighbor” rule designed to reduce air pollution that crosses state lines. It requires "upwind" states to reduce emissions that affect air quality in "downwind" states which can cause significant health problems.Last week, on June 27, 2024, the Supreme Court's ruling in Ohio v. EPA temporarily blocked this rule.Fossil fuel companies and industry associations celebrated the decision as a win, viewing it as a check on the EPA's regulatory power. Meanwhile humans with a heart and lungs worry the decision leaves upwind states free to contribute to their neighbors' ozone problems for years.It's worth noting that this is a temporary stay, not a final ruling on the merits of the case. The legal challenge will continue in lower courts, with the possibility of oral arguments as soon as this fall. But this ruling can also be seen as part of a pattern of the Supreme Court's conservative majority expressing skepticism towards federal regulatory authority, especially in environmental matters.Take, for example, the ruling that came the very next day on June 28, 2024. The Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, curtailed EPA, and other executive agencies', power by overturning the Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council precedent. This shift endangers numerous regulations and transfers authority from the executive branch to Congress and the courts. Chevron has been a cornerstone in American law, cited in 70 Supreme Court and 17,000 lower court decisions.The case began with fishermen challenging two similar rulings, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless v. Department of Commerce. These involved a 1976 law requiring herring boats to carry federal observers to prevent overfishing. A 2020 regulation mandated boat owners to pay $700 daily for the observers. Fishermen from New Jersey and Rhode Island, supported by conservative groups opposing the "administrative state," sued, arguing the law didn't authorize the National Marine Fisheries Service to impose the fee.Adam Liptak of the New York Times reported the fisherman case was brought “by Cause of Action Institute, which says its mission is ‘to limit the power of the administrative state,' and the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which says it aims ‘to protect constitutional freedoms from violations from the administrative state.'” Liptak also reports these institutions are funded by Charles Koch, the climate change denying billionaire who has long supported conservative and libertarian causes.It's curious how the Environmental Protection Agency came from a conservative libertarian and the first most dishonest president in my lifetime, Richard Nixon. The EPA will likely be obliterated should the least trusted former president get reelected — Felonious Trump.GORSUCH'S GRIM GREEN GUTTINGI wrote about the formation of the EPA in July of 2021.
Gregg Henriques is a clinical psychologist and professor at James Madison University. He is known for his Unified Theory of Knowledge (UTOK), which integrates various domains of psychology into a coherent framework. Bonnita Roy is the founder of Alderlore Insight Center, a non-profit educational organization and the curator of The POP-UP School, an online learning community exploring new ways of thinking and acting. Alexander Bard is a philosopher and futurist specializing in the relationship between humanity and technology, with a profound interest in psychoanalysis and anthropology to understand the impact of technological change on interpersonal relationships. What drives our social connections and sense of belonging? Recorded live at UTOK Consilience Conference 2024, this episode features Gregg Henriques, Alexander Bard, Bonnitta Roy, and John Vervaeke examining the convergences and fault lines between transcendent naturalism and emergentism and the profound implications these theories have on our understanding of reality. By critiquing materialism, idealism, and dualism, the panel advocates for a new 21st-century philosophical framework that integrates Eastern and Western insights, emphasizing relationalism and dialectical thinking. Enriched with references to thinkers like Hegel, Whitehead, Nietzsche, and Deleuze, this dialogue explores the roles of cognitive science, spirituality, and community practices. Join this journey to uncover the essence of ultimate reality and the transformative potential of sacredness while underscoring the importance of humility, love, and pragmatic approaches to contemporary challenges. Support John's groundbreaking work and gain exclusive access to live Q&A sessions, early video releases, and more by joining our Patreon community! — 00:00 Introduction: Setting the Stage for Transcendent Naturalism and Emergentism 03:30 John Vervaeke: Outline of Transcendent Naturalism 19:45 Bonnitta Roy's Perspective on Naturalism and Stratified Reality 32:00 Alexander Bard on the Necessity of Metaphysics and Transcendent Emergentism 48:00 Group Dialogue on UTOC Framework and Integrating Perspectives 01:11:00 Exploring Zoofism and the Philosophical Silk Road 01:18:45 Q&A: Integrating Transcendental Emergentism with Science and Philosophy 01:31:10 Alexander Bard on Integrating Hegel with Modern Thinkers 01:33:50 Ontology of Pure Relationality and the Future of Digital Networks and Decentralization 01:40:05 Stability, Relational Thinking, and Dynamic Systems 01:43:30 Final Thoughts and Reflections: Convergences and Future Directions — Join The Vervaeke Foundation in our mission to advance the scientifically rigorous pursuit of wisdom and make a meaningful impact in the world. Discover practices that deepen your virtues and help you connect more deeply with reality and relationships by joining Awaken to Meaning today. — Ideas, People, and Works Mentioned in this Episode Evan Thompson Adam Frank Marcelo Gleiser James Blachowicz Alicia Juarrero Wolfgang Smith Aspects of Truth: A New Religious Metaphysics by Catherine Pickstock Willard Van Orman Quine Hilary Putnam Quine-Duhem Immanuel Kant Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel James J. Gibson Martin Heidegger James Filler Kyoto School John L. Schellenberg Roy Bhaskar Sabine Hossenfelder Eric Weinstein Alfred North Whitehead Friedrich Nietzsche Henri Bergson Dan Chiappe Matt Segall Bruno Latour Diana Fosha Gilles Deleuze Process and Event by Alexander Bard and Jan Söderqvist — Follow John Vervaeke: Website | Twitter | YouTube | Patreon Follow Gregg Henriques: Website | Twitter | UTOK Follow Bonita : YouTube | Substack Follow Alexander Bard Henriques: Blog | Twitter — Thank you for Listening!
This episode features our host, Sam Mickey, discussing the new posthumous publication from the French philosopher Bruno Latour, If We Lose The Earth, We Lose Our Souls, in which Latour calls upon Christians to join the struggle to avert a climate catastrophe. It's a short text that examines connections between cosmology, ecology, and Catholicism, including discussion of Pope Francis, incarnation, redemption, apocalypse, preaching, the problem of anthropocentrism, and more.
For the full episode and all other bonus content, support the show at http://patreon.com/theantifadaAnarcho-Anon Film Critic Daniel and Andy discuss the politics of Furiosa and the rest of the Mad Max franchise through the theories of Pierre Clastres, Donna Haraway, Maggie Nelson, Bruno Latour, Nick Land, Hillary Clinton, punk, and disaster anarchism. I considered calling this episode "Anya Taylor Armed Joy" but decided against it.
En mars dernier, j'ai eu le plaisir d'être invité à Lausanne en Suisse pour participer à une table ronde sur le thème « Où sont les animaux dans les luttes écologistes ? », organisée par l'EVA, les étudiantes véganes et animalistes de l'association Unipoly (l'asso écolo à l'Université de Lausanne et l'École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), dans le cadre de la semaine de la durabilité. Pour cette table-ronde j'étais aux côtés d'Antoine Dubiau, qui était l'invité dans Comme un poisson dans l'eau d'un entretien passionnant en trois épisodes sur l'écofascisme, l'extrême-droite, l'Idée de nature en écologie, et la polémique autour d'Hugo Clément (l'entretien 21 du podcast si vous l'avez raté). Je remercie Tanguy Marbot et Gary Domeniconi et les membres de l'EVA pour cette belle invitation et l'organisation de cet événement. Références citées : - Antoine Dubiau - Écofascismes - Baptiste Morizot - L'Inexploré - Anna Tsing - Le Champignon de la fin du monde - Tribune de Bruno Latour dans le Monde sur le 'multispécisme' - Idée de Nature / Naturalisation des rapports sociaux - Charles Stépanoff - L'Animal et la Mort - Rapport Sentient Media x Faunalytics - Épisode 'Le néo-carnisme de Jocelyne Porcher' avec Axelle Playoust-Braure Sommaire : (0:00) Intro (2:10) Environnementalisme ≠ écologisme (3 critères de définition) (4:50) Invisibilité des animaux dans les discours, ou présence mais pas en tant qu'individus qui ont des intérêts (7:50) L'émergence des pensées du vivant comme dépassement et proposition alternative à la nature (et les implications normatives problématiques de ce concept) (9:20) Le caractère conservateur de la pensée de Baptiste Morizot sur la question animale (13:40) Antispécisme v. multispécisme (version normative des ethnographies multispécifiques qui n'étaient que descriptives) (15:35) Les pensées du vivant tombent dans les mêmes écueils que l'Idée de nature qu'elles prétendent remplacer (mêmes fonctions normatives malgré des concepts différents : de ‘C'est naturel' à ‘c'est la vie') (17:45) L'homogénéisation de la notion de Vivant permet de naturaliser et légitimer des pratiques violentes, comme la chasse (19:50) Les rares figures de l'écologie qui parlent bien de la question animale ont une conception de l'écologie en termes de rapports de pouvoir et d'oppressions (21:50) Les animaux sont les plus nombreuses victimes des crises écologiques, et le spécisme un facteur majeur (25:20) Véganisme assimilé à une politique du petit geste colibri individuel de consommation (27:20) Pourquoi l'élevage paysan a une place si importante au sein de l'imaginaire écolo (30:20) Les animaux utilisés comme symboles d'autre chose qu'eux-mêmes : une harmonie avec la nature, un retour au local, une reconnexion au vivant, etc. (32:10) Ce n'est pas seulement que l'écologie s'interroge sur la question animale, sinon que la question animale vient interroger l'écologie (33:35) La nécessité du néo-carnisme pour les écolos (et exemple de la traction animale) (38:55) Il faut distinguer les ‘intellectuel-les' écolos et les collectifs militants écolos (plus ouverts à l'antispécisme déjà) (42:30) L'autonomie de la lutte antispéciste : une clé qui ouvre des espaces de réflexion fructueux pour l'écologie (46:30) L'antispécisme dominé au sein l'espace des mouvements sociaux, le dialogue avec les autres mouvements est parfois délicat (52:30) Une approche matérialiste plutôt que spirituelle de l'écologie ________________________________ SOUTENIR Comme un poisson dans l'eau est un podcast indépendant et sans publicité : votre soutien est indispensable pour qu'il puisse continuer à exister. Merci d'avance ! Les réseaux sociaux du podcast sont également à retrouver dans le link tree ! ________________________________ CRÉDITS Comme un poisson dans l'eau est un podcast indépendant créé et animé par Victor Duran-Le Peuch. Charte graphique : Ivan Ocaña Générique : Synthwave Vibe par Meydän Musique : Inspiring Journey par Leo Sokolovsky
Samira und Friedemann fragen sich: Was ist nur mit Julia Klöckner los? Und mit Amthor, Scheuer und wie sie alle heißen? Warum sind die so? Hat das alles vielleicht doch einen verborgenen Sinn? Und ist unser Berufsethos als Podcaster:innen (schlimmes Wort) und Autor:innen (bisschen weniger schlimm) eigentlich besser? What if we Talked Politics a Little?, Bruno Latour: http://www.bruno-latour.fr/sites/default/files/downloads/83-POL-GB.pdf
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-professional musicians, of different ethnicities, ages, and generations to make a sonic way of life. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this multi-modal (text, musical composition, social media, performance) sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. The heart and soul of this community is English Language rock and roll music pioneered in Singapore by several members of the 1960s legendary "beats and blues" band, The Straydogs, who continue to engage this community in a sonic way of life. In Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore (NUS Press, 2021), Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latour's ideas of the social--continually emergent, constantly in-the-making, "associations of heterogeneous elements" of human and non-human "mediators and intermediaries"--to portray a community entangled in the confounding relations between vernacular and national heritage projects. Music shops, music gear, music genres, sound, urban space, neighborhoods, State presence, performance venues, practice spaces, regional travel, local, national, regional, and sonic histories afford expected and unexpected opportunities for work, play, and meaning, in the contemporary music scene in this Southeast Asian city-state. The emergent quality of this deep sound is fiercely cosmopolitan, yet entirely Singaporean. What emerges is a vernacular heritage drawing upon Singapore's unique place in Southeast Asian and world history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-professional musicians, of different ethnicities, ages, and generations to make a sonic way of life. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this multi-modal (text, musical composition, social media, performance) sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. The heart and soul of this community is English Language rock and roll music pioneered in Singapore by several members of the 1960s legendary "beats and blues" band, The Straydogs, who continue to engage this community in a sonic way of life. In Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore (NUS Press, 2021), Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latour's ideas of the social--continually emergent, constantly in-the-making, "associations of heterogeneous elements" of human and non-human "mediators and intermediaries"--to portray a community entangled in the confounding relations between vernacular and national heritage projects. Music shops, music gear, music genres, sound, urban space, neighborhoods, State presence, performance venues, practice spaces, regional travel, local, national, regional, and sonic histories afford expected and unexpected opportunities for work, play, and meaning, in the contemporary music scene in this Southeast Asian city-state. The emergent quality of this deep sound is fiercely cosmopolitan, yet entirely Singaporean. What emerges is a vernacular heritage drawing upon Singapore's unique place in Southeast Asian and world history. Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/southeast-asian-studies
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-professional musicians, of different ethnicities, ages, and generations to make a sonic way of life. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this multi-modal (text, musical composition, social media, performance) sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. The heart and soul of this community is English Language rock and roll music pioneered in Singapore by several members of the 1960s legendary "beats and blues" band, The Straydogs, who continue to engage this community in a sonic way of life. In Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore (NUS Press, 2021), Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latour's ideas of the social--continually emergent, constantly in-the-making, "associations of heterogeneous elements" of human and non-human "mediators and intermediaries"--to portray a community entangled in the confounding relations between vernacular and national heritage projects. Music shops, music gear, music genres, sound, urban space, neighborhoods, State presence, performance venues, practice spaces, regional travel, local, national, regional, and sonic histories afford expected and unexpected opportunities for work, play, and meaning, in the contemporary music scene in this Southeast Asian city-state. The emergent quality of this deep sound is fiercely cosmopolitan, yet entirely Singaporean. What emerges is a vernacular heritage drawing upon Singapore's unique place in Southeast Asian and world history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/anthropology
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-professional musicians, of different ethnicities, ages, and generations to make a sonic way of life. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this multi-modal (text, musical composition, social media, performance) sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. The heart and soul of this community is English Language rock and roll music pioneered in Singapore by several members of the 1960s legendary "beats and blues" band, The Straydogs, who continue to engage this community in a sonic way of life. In Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore (NUS Press, 2021), Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latour's ideas of the social--continually emergent, constantly in-the-making, "associations of heterogeneous elements" of human and non-human "mediators and intermediaries"--to portray a community entangled in the confounding relations between vernacular and national heritage projects. Music shops, music gear, music genres, sound, urban space, neighborhoods, State presence, performance venues, practice spaces, regional travel, local, national, regional, and sonic histories afford expected and unexpected opportunities for work, play, and meaning, in the contemporary music scene in this Southeast Asian city-state. The emergent quality of this deep sound is fiercely cosmopolitan, yet entirely Singaporean. What emerges is a vernacular heritage drawing upon Singapore's unique place in Southeast Asian and world history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sociology
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-professional musicians, of different ethnicities, ages, and generations to make a sonic way of life. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this multi-modal (text, musical composition, social media, performance) sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. The heart and soul of this community is English Language rock and roll music pioneered in Singapore by several members of the 1960s legendary "beats and blues" band, The Straydogs, who continue to engage this community in a sonic way of life. In Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore (NUS Press, 2021), Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latour's ideas of the social--continually emergent, constantly in-the-making, "associations of heterogeneous elements" of human and non-human "mediators and intermediaries"--to portray a community entangled in the confounding relations between vernacular and national heritage projects. Music shops, music gear, music genres, sound, urban space, neighborhoods, State presence, performance venues, practice spaces, regional travel, local, national, regional, and sonic histories afford expected and unexpected opportunities for work, play, and meaning, in the contemporary music scene in this Southeast Asian city-state. The emergent quality of this deep sound is fiercely cosmopolitan, yet entirely Singaporean. What emerges is a vernacular heritage drawing upon Singapore's unique place in Southeast Asian and world history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/music
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-professional musicians, of different ethnicities, ages, and generations to make a sonic way of life. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this multi-modal (text, musical composition, social media, performance) sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. The heart and soul of this community is English Language rock and roll music pioneered in Singapore by several members of the 1960s legendary "beats and blues" band, The Straydogs, who continue to engage this community in a sonic way of life. In Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore (NUS Press, 2021), Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latour's ideas of the social--continually emergent, constantly in-the-making, "associations of heterogeneous elements" of human and non-human "mediators and intermediaries"--to portray a community entangled in the confounding relations between vernacular and national heritage projects. Music shops, music gear, music genres, sound, urban space, neighborhoods, State presence, performance venues, practice spaces, regional travel, local, national, regional, and sonic histories afford expected and unexpected opportunities for work, play, and meaning, in the contemporary music scene in this Southeast Asian city-state. The emergent quality of this deep sound is fiercely cosmopolitan, yet entirely Singaporean. What emerges is a vernacular heritage drawing upon Singapore's unique place in Southeast Asian and world history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/sound-studies
The basement of a veteran shopping mall located in the central business district of Singapore affords opportunities to a group of amateur and semi-professional musicians, of different ethnicities, ages, and generations to make a sonic way of life. Based on five years of deep participatory experience, this multi-modal (text, musical composition, social media, performance) sonic ethnography is centered around a community of noisy people who make rock music within the constraints of urban life in Singapore. The heart and soul of this community is English Language rock and roll music pioneered in Singapore by several members of the 1960s legendary "beats and blues" band, The Straydogs, who continue to engage this community in a sonic way of life. In Sonic City: Making Rock Music and Urban Life in Singapore (NUS Press, 2021), Ferzacca draws on Bruno Latour's ideas of the social--continually emergent, constantly in-the-making, "associations of heterogeneous elements" of human and non-human "mediators and intermediaries"--to portray a community entangled in the confounding relations between vernacular and national heritage projects. Music shops, music gear, music genres, sound, urban space, neighborhoods, State presence, performance venues, practice spaces, regional travel, local, national, regional, and sonic histories afford expected and unexpected opportunities for work, play, and meaning, in the contemporary music scene in this Southeast Asian city-state. The emergent quality of this deep sound is fiercely cosmopolitan, yet entirely Singaporean. What emerges is a vernacular heritage drawing upon Singapore's unique place in Southeast Asian and world history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
I talk with Michael Strevens about the scientific enterprise. Does science get at objective truth or is it limited by subjective world-views? We begin by discussing the roles of Kuhn and Popper in the "Great Method Debate", before going on to discuss developments in the sociology of science, by figures such as Bruno Latour, who showed that there is actually quite a bit of subjectivity in everyday scientific activities. We then go on to discuss Michael's contribution to this debate and we examine the "Iron Rule of Explanation". We look at the constellation of ideas that buttress the Iron Rule of Explanation and examine their suitability to the scientific enterprise. Finally, we consider the role that beauty can play in science.
Rechten voor de zee, het bos en de berg, precies zoals wij mensen die hebben, om de natuur tegen ons beschermd moet worden: filosoof Bruno Latour pleitte ervoor in de vorm van een ‘Parlement der dingen'. Hij is niet alleen, vele anderen nemen zijn gedachten ter harte en pogen de natuur rechten toe te kennen om (verdere) ecologische catastrofe te voorkomen. Moeten we beter naar de door ons mensen gemartelde aarde luisteren? Vanuit Italië, gezeten aan de voet van de Dolomieten, vertelt schrijver, journalist en voormalig ingenieur Frank Westerman over zijn kijk op de zaak. Voor het Landschapstriënnale, het landschapsfestival van Nederland in Haarlem, schreef hij een Troonrede van het Landschap, waarin hij het standpunt van Latour en consorten onderzoekt. Zijn conclusie: een weg geplaveid met wetten, leidt niet naar het paradijs. Want, zo vraagt hij zich af, wat wil het Wad? Wil het natter zijn, wil het terugkeren bij de Noordzee? Wie is de mens om als buikspreker van het water te fungeren? Lees ook het artikel Wat wil het Wad? in De Groene Amsterdammer. Productie: Kees van den Bosch & Yannick van der Heijden.Zie het privacybeleid op https://art19.com/privacy en de privacyverklaring van Californië op https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
In this thought-provoking episode, we delve into a myriad of topics ranging from the complexities of curatorial practice in art to the secular study of religion. Nico Sarian guides us through an intellectual journey that stretches from the art scene in Moscow to the academic corridors of the University of Toronto, touching on astrology, Zen Buddhism, and the nature of suffering along the way. Prepare for a multi-layered discussion that challenges conventional wisdom and explores the intersections of art, religion, and culture. Join the awesome whatsapp community that Nico is helping to build Early Life and Academic Background Nico Sarian began his career journey after completing high school and entering the world of fashion. Intrigued by the art world, he transitioned into academia due to a spiritual crisis. Nico studied art history and philosophy at King's College in London, and this led to work as an art curator in Moscow. Defining a Curator According to Nico, the role of a curator involves managing a triangle between works of art, the public, and the space or architecture. Failing to manage all three elements would reduce a curator to merely a critic. The role of a curator is likened to that of a priest in that they serve as a mediator between these elements. Evolution into Religious Studies Nico later began teaching at a British art college in Moscow, which fueled his interest in theory, aesthetics, and teaching. After discovering the field of religious studies, he started studying it in a secular context at the University of Toronto. Influence of Russian Culture Nico spent considerable time in Russia and was in a relationship with a Russian woman for four to five years. He studied the Russian language to immerse himself fully in the culture, stating that Russia felt like another planet to him. Esoteric Studies Nico discussed various aspects of astrology, Zen Buddhism, and Shintoism. He mentioned Richard Tarnas as a researcher who places astrology in a historical context and contrasts Vedic and Western astrology. The demotion of Pluto to an asteroid sparked a debate about its relevance in modern astrology and contemporary life. The Philosophical Angle Nico is a critic of modernity and holds a deep academic viewpoint. His questioning of our modern belief systems was influenced by philosophers like Bruno Latour, who claimed, “We have never been modern.” Questioning Religion and Spirituality Nico wrestles with the concept of secularism in religious studies. His inability to give a straight answer to whether he believes in God stems from his view that the term 'secular' is an illusion. Life Philosophy Nico argues that suffering is not a problem; rather, it's the inability to deal with suffering that becomes the problem. He spent three years studying Sanskrit and used the term “Duhka” to discuss the concept of suffering. Future Directions Nico mentioned the idea of creating an infinite discussion board that incorporates various perspectives, aiming to foster and create symbolic capital. The episode delved into Nico's multifaceted life journey, from art and fashion to philosophy and religious studies. He provided a comprehensive view of how different disciplines intersect and inform each other, offering a critique of modernity along the way.
Julia Itel est doctorante en science religieuse et a décidé de concentrer toute son energie sur l'éco spiritualité, c'est à dire le lien entre l'écologie et la spiritualité. J'avoue que je n'avais jamais vraiment entendu parler de cette tendance et pourtant je suis à 100% dedans et sans doute que certains d'entres vous, vont s'y retrouver également. Dans cet épisode nous abordons de nombreux sujets dont la définition de la spiritualité, son évolution au cours des dernières décennies et son lien avec l'écologie. Nous discutons également du rôle des religions dans l'éco-spiritualité, de neurosciences, de physique quantique de la manière dont ces sciences sont transformées et réutilisées par les personnes pour leur donner une dimension mystique. Dans cet épisode nous prenons une posture de description et d'observation sans condamner ni favoriser ce mouvement car il est important d'avoir des dialogues et des débats dans la société. Je crois que dans cette période trouble il est essentiel de rester ouvert à d'autres perspectives et de reconnaître les dogmes et les croyances présents dans l'écologie et le mouvement écologiste. Car en réalité, l'écologie politique a du mal à faire sa propre introspection et il manque parfois de réflexivité. (dans ce sens les critiques de Bruno Latour ainsi que celles de Philippe Pelletier sont passionnantes). Nous soulignons également que le mouvement de l'éco-spiritualité est principalement composé de femmes, et qu'il existe des liens entre les mouvements féministes et éco-spirituels. Bref un épisode de découvertes j'espère Suggestion d'autres épisodes à écouter : Vlan #78 Les sorcières ou la puissance féminine avec Odile Chabrillac (https://audmns.com/hMXThgP) #170 Ecologie: dépasser les fausses bonnes idées avec Hélène de Vestele (https://audmns.com/NsiNltm) [HORS SERIE] Ecologie et mode de vie: comment réagir sans tout sacrifier? (https://audmns.com/iDvwTfO)
The witches are back! On the latest episode I'm joined again by Risa Dickens and Amy Torok, who first appeared on the show in 2021. They're back this time to discuss their latest book, "New Moon Magic: 13 Anti-Capitalist Tools for Resistance and Re-Enchantment." Risa and Amy are also the co-authors of “Missing Witches: Reclaiming True Histories of Feminist Magic”, both from North Atlantic Books, and the co-hosts of the podcast Missing Witches.On the latest episode we explore:The nature of sacred activism and the constantly flowing journey between personal evolution and its outward expression in the worldThe importance of holding multiplicities and paradox, and how this work is essential to witchcraftWhy differences shouldn't divide us but rather invite us to expandRisa and Amy's process for collaborating and writing their books together - and in doing so, how they've joined a lineage of powerful women who write togetherOur shared loved of dirt, and why it's much more than a metaphor for both the medicine we need AND what's ailing usShow Notes If you'd like to know whose ancestral tribal lands you currently reside on, you can look up your address here: https://native-land.ca/You can also visit the Coalition of Natives and Allies for more helpful educational resources about Indigenous rights and history.Please check out Home to Her Academy, a school dedicated to seekers of Sacred Feminine wisdom! www.hometoheracademy.com. And while you're there, don't forget to sign up for my newsletter to stay up to date with upcoming classes.My book, “Home to Her: Walking the Transformative Path of the Sacred Feminine,” is available from Womancraft Publishing! To learn more, read endorsements and purchase, please visit https://womancraftpublishing.com/product/home-to-her/. It is also available for sale via Amazon, Bookshop.org, and you can order it from your favorite local bookstore, too.Please – if you love this podcast and/or have read my book, please consider leaving me a review! For the podcast, reviews on iTunes are extremely helpful, and for the book, reviews on Amazon and Goodreads are equally helpful. Thank you for supporting my work!You can watch this and other podcast episodes at the Home to Her YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@hometoherGot feedback about this episode or others you've heard? Please reach out on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/hometoher/ ), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/hometoher)You can learn more about Amy and Risa's work at www.missingwitches.com. You can find them on Instagram @missingwitches and on Facebook at facebook.com/missingwitches.During this episode, we discussed Z Budapest. This article quotes Amy and provides a good overview of her life and work, including her stance on transgender individuals participating in ceremony. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-09-18/this-feminist-witch-introduced-california-to-goddess-worshipAmy and Risa also mentioned the following resources: Great Cosmic Mother by Monica Sjoo and Barbara Mor, as well as New Age and Armageddon by Monica Sjoo; Surfacing, by Margaret Atwood; Witches, Midwives and Nurses by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English.I mentioned the book Witches and Pagans by Max Dashu Risa mentioned the song Water Witch, by Secret Sisters. You can listen to it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXb1lxv9caQI discussed the controversy around the book The Mists of Avalon in a prior episode. This article provides an overview (content warning: child sexual abuse is discussed): Content warning - these article refer to child sexual abuse. More context here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jun/27/sff-community-marion-zimmer-bradley-daughter-accuses-abuseRisa and Amy also mentioned several other thinkers during this episode. These include: Professor Donna Haroway; philosopher and anthropologist Bruno Latour ; writer and activist Sylvia Federici ; and artist and scholar WhiteFeather HunterRelated Episodes The Portal of the Divine Feminine with Sophie Strand: https://hometoher.simplecast.com/episodes/the-portal-of-the-divine-feminine-with-sophie-strandFinding Missing Witches with Risa Dickens and Amy Torok: https://hometoher.simplecast.com/episodes/witch-finding-with-risa-dickens-and-amy-torok
Barry and Mike discuss Bruno Latour's essay, “On Actor-Network Theory: A few clarifications.” They work through his key terms in an attempt to better understand the new meanings he ascribes to actors and networks and what this theory allows us to do with media theory.
Kip Lee is a designer and healthcare executive at University Hospitals Health System in Cleveland, OH. As Vice President of UH Ventures, he manages an innovation portfolio that supports University Hospitals' strategic initiatives and partnerships through product innovation and human-centered design. Outside of work, Kip serves on the editorial board of Design Issues, a design and innovation journal published by MIT Press. He also serves on several nonprofit boards. We talk about systems and design in healthcare. Listen to learn about: Complex systems Design in healthcare What is the role of management? The COVID-19 pandemic's effect on healthcare innovation The interplay between design and management Our Guest Kipum (Kip) Lee, PhD is a designer and healthcare executive at University Hospitals Health System in Cleveland, OH. As Vice President of UH Ventures, he manages an innovation portfolio that supports University Hospitals' strategic initiatives and partnerships through product innovation and human-centered design. Outside of work, he serves as an editor of Design Issues, the premier journal on design history, theory, criticism, and practice published by MIT Press, and on several non-profit boards. In addition to playing with his two kids, Kip loves used hardcover books, freshly ground coffee, low-humidity weather, and a good conversation. Show Highlights [01:26] Kip's journey into design began with a love of drawing and visualization at a very early age. [02:36] Experiencing the New Jersey Governor's School of the Arts during high school. [04:11] Kip talks about cultural expectations and how that affected his choices as he entered university. [05:09] Why Kip chose bioengineering as an undergrad. [06:20] A brief time in architecture as a graduate student. [07:47] Carnegie Mellon's interaction design program. [08:27] Kip's revelation while attending the U.S.'s first ever service design conference. [09:40] The course that made Kip fall in love with learning again. [10:41] How Kip's studies in architecture and bioengineering have come full circle in his current work in healthcare. [13:51] Designing in complex systems. [14:00] Kip uses the military and warfare as another example of a complex system. [15:38] Looking at healthcare as a complex system. [16:54] Kip offers a pre-pandemic example of the challenges that arose in implementing a new technology. [18:26] Difficulties that can arise with terminology and in how language is used. [19:21] Vaccine hesitancy vs. vaccine readiness. [21:48] Complex systems are multidimensional, and aesthetics is often just as important as the technical. [23:02] Kip offers an example using PPE/masks during the pandemic to show why aesthetics matters. [26:06] The complexities involved in shaping and influencing people's behaviors and choices. [31:16] Dawan brings up the idea of shifting management more into performance facilitation rather than control. [32:43] A Miro Moment. [34:01] Kip likes Henry Mintzberg's idea of management as “controlled chaos,” maintaining the balance between exploration, freedom, and a sense of order. [35:43] The need for c-suite execs to stay grounded in the actual front line work of the organization. [36:46] Designers as rebels. [37:05] Kip talks about parallel developments in both design and management. [38:43] What can designers learn from management? [41:33] How the pandemic helped healthcare innovation. [42:55] Good designers and good managers both work to create the environment where healthy and exciting interactions and projects can take place. [44:46] Service design's uniqueness as a discipline. [47:09] The desire to serve is an essential aspect of what it means to be a designer. [47:39] Bruno Latour's benefits of design. [49:03] Many things that are aspects of design are also aspects of management. [51:10] Designers and managers are often doing the same work. [51:37] Dawan talks about shifting from “solutions” to “responses.” [54:28] Systems have histories and memories. [57:14] Kip offers thoughts and advice for others who want to apply their design skills in the healthcare industry. [01:04:15] Kip's last words about the design field as a whole. Links Kip on Twitter Kip on LinkedIn Kip on Google Scholar Kip on University Hospitals Ventures Kip on ResearchGate TEDx CLE, Master Builders for the 21st Century Critique of Design Thinking in Organizations: Strongholds and Shortcomings of the Making Paradigm Hack from Home | Discovering Problems in Our Dwelling Place: A Design Thinking Approach Architekton Designing for Value in Specialty Referrals: A New Framework for Eliminating Defects and Wicked Problems, by Patrick Runnels, Heather Wobbe, Kipum Lee, Randy Jernejcic, and Peter Pronovost Book Recommendations Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World, by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman, and Chris Fussell The Systems Approach and Its Enemies, by C. West Churchman The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action, by Donald Schön A Cautious Prometheus? A Few Steps Toward a Philosophy of Design (with Special Attention to Peter Sloterdijk), keynote lecture from Bruno Latour Other Design Thinking 101 Episodes You Might Like Healthcare Innovation + Nursing + Opportunities for Designers — DT101 E109 A Designer's Journey into Designing for Health and Healthcare with Lorna Ross — DT101 E45 Service Design in Healthcare Inside Multiple Business Contexts with Jessica Dugan — DT101 E22
Tim is Junior Research Fellow in Political Theology at Campion Hall, University of Oxford, and Researcher Director at the "Laudato Si' Research Institute", a new institute conducting academic research in the field of ecology and social change. He is also an ordained Priest in the Church of England. In this episode we discuss Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz text On the Emergence of an Ecological Class: A Memo Book link: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/On+the+Emergence+of+an+Ecological+Class:+A+Memo-p-9781509555079 --- Become part of the Hermitix community: Hermitix Twitter - https://twitter.com/Hermitixpodcast Support Hermitix: Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/hermitix Donations: - https://www.paypal.me/hermitixpod Hermitix Merchandise - http://teespring.com/stores/hermitix-2 Bitcoin Donation Address: 3LAGEKBXEuE2pgc4oubExGTWtrKPuXDDLK Ethereum Donation Address: 0x31e2a4a31B8563B8d238eC086daE9B75a00D9E74
the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the rest of us contend with the atrophy of institutional integrity and the utter abdication of providing even minimal shelter from looming disaster. The irony of the Anthropocene era is that, in a neoliberal culture of the self, it is forcing us to consider ourselves as a collective again. For those of us who are not wealthy enough to start a colony on Mars or isolate ourselves from the world, the Anthropocene ends the fantasy of sheer individualism and worldlessness once and for all. It introduces a profound sense of time and events after the so-called "end of history" and an entirely new approach to solidarity. How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene (Stanford UP, 2022) is a hopeful exploration of how we might inherit the name "Anthropocene," renarrate it, and revise our way of life or thought in view of it. In his book on time, art, and politics in an era of escalating climate change, Holloway takes up difficult, unanswered questions in recent work by Donna Haraway, Kathryn Yusoff, Bruno Latour, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Isabelle Stengers, sketching a path toward a radical form of democracy―a zoocracy, or, a rule of all of the living. Travis Holloway is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Farmingdale and a poet and former Goldwater Fellow in Creative Writing at NYU. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network
the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the rest of us contend with the atrophy of institutional integrity and the utter abdication of providing even minimal shelter from looming disaster. The irony of the Anthropocene era is that, in a neoliberal culture of the self, it is forcing us to consider ourselves as a collective again. For those of us who are not wealthy enough to start a colony on Mars or isolate ourselves from the world, the Anthropocene ends the fantasy of sheer individualism and worldlessness once and for all. It introduces a profound sense of time and events after the so-called "end of history" and an entirely new approach to solidarity. How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene (Stanford UP, 2022) is a hopeful exploration of how we might inherit the name "Anthropocene," renarrate it, and revise our way of life or thought in view of it. In his book on time, art, and politics in an era of escalating climate change, Holloway takes up difficult, unanswered questions in recent work by Donna Haraway, Kathryn Yusoff, Bruno Latour, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Isabelle Stengers, sketching a path toward a radical form of democracy―a zoocracy, or, a rule of all of the living. Travis Holloway is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Farmingdale and a poet and former Goldwater Fellow in Creative Writing at NYU. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory
the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the rest of us contend with the atrophy of institutional integrity and the utter abdication of providing even minimal shelter from looming disaster. The irony of the Anthropocene era is that, in a neoliberal culture of the self, it is forcing us to consider ourselves as a collective again. For those of us who are not wealthy enough to start a colony on Mars or isolate ourselves from the world, the Anthropocene ends the fantasy of sheer individualism and worldlessness once and for all. It introduces a profound sense of time and events after the so-called "end of history" and an entirely new approach to solidarity. How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene (Stanford UP, 2022) is a hopeful exploration of how we might inherit the name "Anthropocene," renarrate it, and revise our way of life or thought in view of it. In his book on time, art, and politics in an era of escalating climate change, Holloway takes up difficult, unanswered questions in recent work by Donna Haraway, Kathryn Yusoff, Bruno Latour, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Isabelle Stengers, sketching a path toward a radical form of democracy―a zoocracy, or, a rule of all of the living. Travis Holloway is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Farmingdale and a poet and former Goldwater Fellow in Creative Writing at NYU. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/environmental-studies
the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the rest of us contend with the atrophy of institutional integrity and the utter abdication of providing even minimal shelter from looming disaster. The irony of the Anthropocene era is that, in a neoliberal culture of the self, it is forcing us to consider ourselves as a collective again. For those of us who are not wealthy enough to start a colony on Mars or isolate ourselves from the world, the Anthropocene ends the fantasy of sheer individualism and worldlessness once and for all. It introduces a profound sense of time and events after the so-called "end of history" and an entirely new approach to solidarity. How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene (Stanford UP, 2022) is a hopeful exploration of how we might inherit the name "Anthropocene," renarrate it, and revise our way of life or thought in view of it. In his book on time, art, and politics in an era of escalating climate change, Holloway takes up difficult, unanswered questions in recent work by Donna Haraway, Kathryn Yusoff, Bruno Latour, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Isabelle Stengers, sketching a path toward a radical form of democracy―a zoocracy, or, a rule of all of the living. Travis Holloway is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Farmingdale and a poet and former Goldwater Fellow in Creative Writing at NYU. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history
the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the rest of us contend with the atrophy of institutional integrity and the utter abdication of providing even minimal shelter from looming disaster. The irony of the Anthropocene era is that, in a neoliberal culture of the self, it is forcing us to consider ourselves as a collective again. For those of us who are not wealthy enough to start a colony on Mars or isolate ourselves from the world, the Anthropocene ends the fantasy of sheer individualism and worldlessness once and for all. It introduces a profound sense of time and events after the so-called "end of history" and an entirely new approach to solidarity. How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene (Stanford UP, 2022) is a hopeful exploration of how we might inherit the name "Anthropocene," renarrate it, and revise our way of life or thought in view of it. In his book on time, art, and politics in an era of escalating climate change, Holloway takes up difficult, unanswered questions in recent work by Donna Haraway, Kathryn Yusoff, Bruno Latour, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Isabelle Stengers, sketching a path toward a radical form of democracy―a zoocracy, or, a rule of all of the living. Travis Holloway is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Farmingdale and a poet and former Goldwater Fellow in Creative Writing at NYU. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/art
the near universal disappearance of shared social enterprise: the ruling class builds walls and lunar shuttles, while the rest of us contend with the atrophy of institutional integrity and the utter abdication of providing even minimal shelter from looming disaster. The irony of the Anthropocene era is that, in a neoliberal culture of the self, it is forcing us to consider ourselves as a collective again. For those of us who are not wealthy enough to start a colony on Mars or isolate ourselves from the world, the Anthropocene ends the fantasy of sheer individualism and worldlessness once and for all. It introduces a profound sense of time and events after the so-called "end of history" and an entirely new approach to solidarity. How to Live at the End of the World: Theory, Art, and Politics for the Anthropocene (Stanford UP, 2022) is a hopeful exploration of how we might inherit the name "Anthropocene," renarrate it, and revise our way of life or thought in view of it. In his book on time, art, and politics in an era of escalating climate change, Holloway takes up difficult, unanswered questions in recent work by Donna Haraway, Kathryn Yusoff, Bruno Latour, Dipesh Chakrabarty, and Isabelle Stengers, sketching a path toward a radical form of democracy―a zoocracy, or, a rule of all of the living. Travis Holloway is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at SUNY Farmingdale and a poet and former Goldwater Fellow in Creative Writing at NYU. Morteza Hajizadeh is a Ph.D. graduate in English from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. His research interests are Cultural Studies; Critical Theory; Environmental History; Medieval (Intellectual) History; Gothic Studies; 18th and 19th Century British Literature. YouTube channel. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In this episode, we dive into the role of the Federal Reserve, its dual mandate, and the socioeconomic implications of controlling inflation through employment. We explore the concept of aggregates of aggregates, the artificiality of the 2% inflation rate, and draw upon the perspectives of French philosopher Bruno Latour to shed light on how economic measures are influenced by practices, technologies, and social interactions.Books Discussed: We Have Never Been Modern - https://bookshop.org/a/94644/9780674948396 The Tyranny of Merit - https://bookshop.org/a/94644/9781250800060Further Info: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-S-86YcDfV94_u2i1qlYbQ Twitter: https://twitter.com/Reviving_Virtue Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/RevivingVirtue Bookshop page: https://bookshop.org/shop/RevivingVirtue Contact: revivingvirtue@gmail.com Music by Jeffrey Anthony
We are hosting Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas (artists and educators, born in Lithuania). They work together as Urbonas Studio, with an artistic practice that combines new media, urbanism, social science, ecology, and pedagogy to transform civic spaces and collective imaginaries. We'll start off the conversation focusing on their work on Swamps, that disregarded wealth of organic complexity; and together unpack questions around ecology, technology, and artistic practice. You'll also get to hear about their mode of operation within often contested social and political realities.This Episode includes sound samples that act as interludes from the work:The Swamp Observatory. Nomeda & Gediminas UrbonasSound mixing by Mouse on Mars based on sampling by pupils at the Innovitaskolan Visby, Sweden. 2022Ecotones are transitional spaces between two biological communities. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EcotoneRiparian Territories are zones that tie and lie in-between land and rivers or streams.“Drain the swamp” refers to the removal of water from marsh areas which causes the removal of creatures dependent on the water. The phrase is adopted by politicians from Mussolini to Donald Trump who used it as a metaphor for ‘cleansing' of various sorts.Bruno Latour is a philosopher, anthropologist, and sociologist. http://www.bruno-latour.fr/Established in 1895, La Biennale di Venezia is a cultural institution that organizes events and exhibitions in Art (1895), Architecture (1980), Cinema (1932), Dance (1999), Music (1930), and Theatre (1934) departments. https://www.labiennale.org/enSwamp School took place in Swamp Pavillion curated by Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, the first individual pavilion Lithuania presents as a part of the 16th Venice International Architecture Biennale, Freespace, in 2018. Throughout the biennale, Swamp School functioned as a changing, flexible, open-ended infrastructure that supports experiments in design, pedagogy and artistic intelligence. https://www.swamp.lt/George Washington was one of the investors of the Dismal Swamp Company, a land speculation venture founded in 1763 to drain, tame and make profit from the Great Dismal Swamp, a wetland that stretches between Norfolk, Virginia, and Edeltan, North Carolina.The Baltic Pavillion was the joint contribution of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to the 15th Venice International Architecture Biennale in 2016. https://balticpavilion.eu/Located in the Church of San Lorenzo in Venice, Ocean Space is a global center for exhibitions, research, and public programs harboring contributions to ocean literacy and advocacy through the arts. https://www.ocean-space.org/Barrenas refers to emerged lands and sandbanks of Venetian geography.Giardini della Biennale is the traditional site of La Biennale Art Exhibitions since the first edition in 1895.Swamp Radio is the independent chapter of Swamp School, featuring a number of contributors to explore spatial qualities of sonic experiments.Jana Winderen is a sound artist based in Norway. https://www.janawinderen.com/Sam Auinger is a sound artist based in Austria. http://www.samauinger.de/Petteri Nisunen is a sound artist based in Finland. https://g-n.fi/Tommi Gronlund is a sound artist based in Finland. https://g-n.fi/Nicole L'Huillier is an architect based in Chile and USA. https://nicolelhuillier.com/The Marsh Labrador Tea (Rhododendron tomentosum) is an evergreen shrub that preferably grows in moors and peat soils. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhododendron_tomentosumPirate radio refers to a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radioSant'Erasmo is an island in the Venetian Lagoon lying north-east of the Lido island and east of Venice, famous for its blue artichokes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sant%27ErasmoSundews are one of the largest groups of carnivorous plants. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DroseraMaroons were people who inhabited in the Great Dismal Swamp after escaping enslavement. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Dismal_Swamp_maroonsSwamp Thing is a fictional humanoid/plant elemental character, created by writer Len Wein and artist Bernie Wrightson. In the mid-1980s a storyline by Alan Moore elevated this character and comics series by reworking the whole origin story building a new world around it. This new Swamp Thing was timely, philosophical and ahead of its time in many ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_ThingAlan Moore (b. 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_MooreStaying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene is a 2016 book by Donna Haraway, published by Duke University Press. https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-troubleWalden is a book by American transcendentalist writer Henry David Thoreau.Swamp Observatory (2020) is an installation by Urbonas Studio, commissioned for the exhibition, Critical Zones – Observatories for Earthly Politics, curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel at ZKM Center for Arts and Media. The installation proposes to approach to the swamp as an interface to Gaia and continues to regenerate itself at different locations and through different mediums.Swamp Game is the extension of Swamp Observatory installation and stands as an invitation to experience the relations between organisms and their environments.Jutempus is a non-profit, artist-run initiative that was founded in 1993 and re-organized in 1997 on the initiative of Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas in collaboration with other artists and creative people at the former Cultural Palace of the Railway Workers in Vilnius, the capital and largest city of Lithuania. http://www.vilma.cc/jutempus/Simone de Beauvoir (1908 – 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_de_BeauvoirGround Control: Technology and Utopia is a collection of essays that expand upon an exhibition programme of the same name. The contributors of the collection reflect on the broad divisions and links in culture and history between Eastern and Western Europe.Baltic Art Center is a residency for contemporary art on the island of Gotland in the Baltic Sea. https://www.balticartcenter.com/home/Curated by Marco Scotini, Disobedience Archive, is an ongoing, multi-phase video archive and platform of discussion that deals with the relationship between artistic practices and political actions. The latest edition of the archive was presented as a part of the 17th İstanbul Biennial through a display setting designed by Can Altay. http://www.disobediencearchive.othe rg/Mel King (b. 1928) is an American politician, community organizer, and educator. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_KingThe Tent City Protests in Boston was a public revolt demanding the right to affordable housing, led by Mel King in 1968.Naomi A. Klein (b. 1970) is a Canadian author, social activist, and filmmaker. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_KleinThe Occupy movement is an internationally localized socio-political movement in search of “real democracy”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_movementThe Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_PartySylvère Lotringer (1938 – 2021) was a French-born literary critic and cultural theorist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sylv%C3%A8re_Lotringers. This season of Ahali Conversations is supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. The Graham provides project-based grants to foster the development and exchange of diverse and challenging ideas about architecture and its role in the arts, culture, and society. This episode was also supported by a Moon & Stars Project Grant from the American Turkish Society.This episode was recorded on Zoom on November 23rd, 2022. Interview by Can Altay. Produced by Aslı Altay & Sarp Renk Özer. Music by Grup Ses.
Join us for a fascinating discussion of the War on Science. What is the history of this war? Why are French philosophers making things more difficult for us? This is one of our favorite discussion arcs. Sources “What's behind the U.S. War on Science?” 2021. The MIT Press Reader. June 22, 2021. https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/whats-behind-the-u-s-war-on-science/. De Vrieze, Jop. 2017. Review of Bruno Latour, a Veteran of the “Science Wars,” Has a New Mission. Science.org. October 10, 2017. https://www.science.org/content/article/bruno-latour-veteran-science-wars-has-new-mission. Otto, Shawn. n.d. “A Plan to Defend against the War on Science.” Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-plan-to-defend-against-the-war-on-science/. Otto, Shawn Lawrence. 2012. “America's Science Problem.” Scientific American 307 (5): 62–71. https://doi.org/10.1038/scientificamerican1112-62 CBS Documentary "The War on Science" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Do-3WCKhdl0&t=984s --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/marc-snediker/support
A brief reflection on Bill Cronon's 1998 essay "The Trouble With Wilderness". A lot of this thinking is built up on Bruno Latour's idea of "coming down to earth" and Isabelle Stenger's idea of "obligations."
This week, the panel begins by going Blonde as they dive into Andrew Dominik's Marilyn Monroe biopic on Netflix. Then, the panel continues by chipping in on the reboot discussion, specifically through the lens of Hulu's new show (you guessed it) Reboot. Finally, Slate's music critic, Carl Wilson, joins the panel to explain the legacy of the late country music titan Loretta Lynn. In Slate Plus, the panel discusses the on-going smear campaigns against cities and urban spaces—inspired by Henry Grabar's Slate article titled “Fear City.” Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements Dana: The 2006 movie The TV Set, directed by Jake Kasdan and starring Reboot's Judy Greer, Sigourney Weaver, and David Duchovny. Julia: A cookbook called Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime Cravings: A Baking Book by Yossy Arefi. Steve: Remembering the great French philosopher Bruno Latour who spent his work trying to explain how empirical statements come to be. Podcast production by Yanii Evans. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week, the panel begins by going Blonde as they dive into Andrew Dominik's Marilyn Monroe biopic on Netflix. Then, the panel continues by chipping in on the reboot discussion, specifically through the lens of Hulu's new show (you guessed it) Reboot. Finally, Slate's music critic, Carl Wilson, joins the panel to explain the legacy of the late country music titan Loretta Lynn. In Slate Plus, the panel discusses the on-going smear campaigns against cities and urban spaces—inspired by Henry Grabar's Slate article titled “Fear City.” Email us at culturefest@slate.com. Endorsements Dana: The 2006 movie The TV Set, directed by Jake Kasdan and starring Reboot's Judy Greer, Sigourney Weaver, and David Duchovny. Julia: A cookbook called Snacking Cakes: Simple Treats for Anytime Cravings: A Baking Book by Yossy Arefi. Steve: Remembering the great French philosopher Bruno Latour who spent his work trying to explain how empirical statements come to be. Podcast production by Yanii Evans. Production assistance by Nadira Goffe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today we cover thought provoking pieces of an early work by a great philosopher named Bruno Latour. Hope you love it.