Modernity has two powerful characteristics that constantly produce redundant people, who can’t be accommodated—the people that don’t fit. The first is the order-building characteristic: modernity is obsessively ordering a chaotic […]

“Hegel famously judged art to be a thing of the past. Is that verdict still justified? Do we not need art more than ever today?” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wood_%28philosopher%29 http://www.jcrt.org/archives/10.1/Simmons.pdf

“a research initiative but is also a way of looking at the urban world: seeing how we already ‘dance’ with our technologies and how, if we feel like it, can […]

here in flyover country USA I dream of the return of the mighty buffalo herds, in the meantime like me “director Anne Koizumi laments the changing face of her home […]

“The reward SEEKING system of the brain is a general purpose emotional process that all mammals use to acquire all the resources needed for survival from daily meals to social […]

Andy sketches out some of the implications of our contemporary tool-uses (cyborg incarnations) and how design and experimentation in varying environs challenges some of the conservative trends in evolutionary psychology. […]

talk by the author of one of the pivotal post-Wittgensteinian enactivist texts: http://www.academia.edu/598411/The_cradle_of_language_making_sense_of_bodily_connexions

“A professor of philosophy at Ruhr University in Bochum, Germany, since 1976, Bernhard Waldenfels has written books about phenomenology, dialog theory, and structures of behavior. He was co-founder and vice […]

http://anth.la.psu.edu/people/awalker “We are full of the accumulated baggage of our idiosyncratic histories. The body is built on an old form, out of parts that once did very different things. So […]

from an excellent video collection on naturalism and phenomenology: Professor Fredrik Svenaeus (Södertörn) talk from the Human Experience and Nature, Royal Institute of Philosophy Conference 2011, UWE, Bristol. http://philpapers.org/s/Fredrik%20Svenaeus

From the Dialogues: Philosophy in Comparative Perspective at McMaster University in April 2013. Michael Berman speaks on “Indirect Unity: Merleau-Ponty and Nagarjuna on the Human and Non-human” The nature of […]

Gilles Deleuze’s philosophy of life is characterized by the commitment to there always being more than meets the eye. Whatever there is in the actual world contains a virtuality that […]