DECEPTION – A Night Of Magic And Illumination
Why is deception such an essential part of the human condition? What evolutionary purpose does it fulfill? How can we recognize it on an individual level, and overcome it on […]
Monthly Archives: June 2013
On Crisis (emergency and new heroism), Jan Verwoert
Emergency? Of what kind, where, affecting who? In most recent global history, a number of monumental incidents of a political nature, many of which fall under a larger concept of […]
Ruth Ozeki and the Trials of Switching Off
Ruth Ozeki and the Trials of Switching Off Just started reading zen priest, novelist, and documentary filmmaker Ruth Ozeki’s A Tale For The Time Being and came across this related […]
Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism – David Harvey
AUDIO: David Harvey ‘Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism’ In this lecture drawing on his new ‘Seventeen Contradictions and The End of Capitalism’ David Harvey will explore the way capital […]
Movements of Feeling and Moments of Judgment
Systems thinker Tom Andersen, in being “a wanderer and worrier” (as he put it), was constantly reflecting on his own practice, on his way of ‘going on’, to further develop […]
Blasting the Canon
Blasting the Canon, Anarchist Developments in Cultural Studies All hail Eileen Joy and her wondrous and ever evolving DIY rhizome Punctum productions this time bringing us the latest from Anarchist […]
Brutal Simplifiers
Richard Sennett’s lecture “Brutal Simplifiers” at the Haus der Kulturen der Wel: BODYBITS Opening (1/5), http://www.hkw.de/en/
Theodore Major
A segment of a TV progamme on the Wigan artist, Theodore Major
Infrastructure, Infra-politics
Infrastructure, after all, is about how worlds are made, how forms of life are sustained and made viable. To think politics as infrastructural is to set aside questions of subjectivity, […]
gods must be crazy
Anthropology, Architecture, Archaeology, Art
In the video below preeminent anthropologist and Chair of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen Tim Ingold tries to bring the “4 A’s” [anthropology, architecture, archaeology, and art] together, […]
The Decline and Fall of Work
Raoul Vaneigem is a Belgian writer and philosopher. He was born in Lessines. After studying romance philology at the Free University of Brussels from 1952 to 1956, he participated in […]
Reason, Genealogy and the Hermeneutics of Magnanimity
Originally posted on ANTHEM:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiM7IwZWW5g Robert Brandom, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, argues that genealogies (Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Foucault) present the revenge of naturalism on rationalism. Hegel teaches…
Live From Deathrow: REACH Coalition
Prof. Lisa Guenther (one of the NewAPPS crew) has been sharing some of her work (both directly with/in the community and in reflection) in an ongoing series of posts that […]
The Practice Turn in Contemporary Theory (2001)
It is through action and interaction within practices that mind, rationality and knowledge are constituted and social life is organized, reproduced and transformed. During the past two decades, practice theory […]
Only An Expert
The song “Only an Expert” was released as a 12″ vinyl single on May 18, 2010 by Laurie Anderson, an American experimental performance artist, composer and musician. Initially trained as […]
An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene
In the video below Katherine Gibson (one half of the amazing JK Gibson-Graham feminist economic-geographer duo; unfortunately Julie Graham died in 2010) delivers a powerful and insightful plenary lecture entitled, […]
Being in the World
“Once upon a time there was a world full of meaning, focused by exemplary figures in the form of gods and heroes, saints and sinners. How did we lose them, […]
Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness?
Alain de Botton is a Swiss/British writer, philosopher, television presenter and entrepreneur, living in the United Kingdom. In the following video series, Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness de Botton features […]
We Want Your Soul
– a musical interlude by Adam Freeland & Mr Mondialisation
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