Adapted to a Symbolic Niche?
Terrence William Deacon (born 1950) is an American Neuroanthropologist (Ph.D. in Biological Anthropology, Harvard University 1984). He taught at Harvard for eight years, relocated to Boston University in 1992, and […]
Tag Archives: existenz
How We Make Choices | Robert Sapolsky
“The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. […]
Lemurian Time Sorcery: Ccru and the Reality Studio
Originally posted on The Dark Forest: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The creation of the Universe is attributed to the five-stage action taken by the Absolute One to defend itself…
No results found for “cognitive psychology of philosophy”.
Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
That is, until today. The one thing I try to continuously remind people is that philosophy is itself a data point, a telling demonstration…
Andrew Pickering – Engaging Emergence: From Cellular Automata to the Occupy Movement
It’s come to my attention that this may have gotten buried in the powers of the horde here and that would be unfortunate as I think it is central to […]
City-state Survivalism
In terms of politics climate change trumps everything else. It should be our primary concern if we want to survive or live with any kind of comfort*. Therefore all design […]
Unknowing in the Wild
Survival, in the sense Desert suggests it to me, is something completely different, for in it any social group or kin network, as it attempts to live on, cannot draw significant […]
Deleuze’s Stoicism
“How much we have yet to learn from Stoicism …” ~ Deleuze In this 2006 paper John Sellars argues that Deleuze’s relationship with Stoicism goes far beyond his explicit comments on […]
On Matters of Concern: Ontological Politics, Ecology, and the Anthropo(s)cene
On Matters of Concern: Ontological Politics, Ecology, and the Anthropo(s)cene Adrian Ivakhiv Ontology is in; epistemology is out. The question is no longer how we know what we know, but […]
Control/Crisis/Junk
Datawar In the comments to my previous post, Sketches on Mutant Design, RS Bakker raised an important point on the technologies insulated in the core of neoliberal functionality: “I think […]
Beyond Palliative Care
Not all that long ago the curators of this blog started talking about the possibility of the palliative care of the Earth. Recently Dirk posted up a podcast dealing with […]
Re-thinking the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences’
This podcast features Dr Des Fitzgerald and Dr Felicity Callard on ‘Experimental Entanglements: Re-thinking the dynamics of interaction across the social sciences and neurosciences’. It was recorded at a Hearing the Voice […]
Thomas Fuchs: “Embodiment and psychopathology”
http://vimeo.com/28736926 First came across Fuchs during nursing research into schizophrenia as a disorder of embodiment. People often ask what alternatives there might be to contemporary psychiatry and psychotherapy, and […]
The Catastrophic and the Post-apocalyptic
The present is filled with catastrophe and apocalypticism. A certain phrase has been deployed and redeployed in summarising the condition we find ourselves in: it is easier to imagine the end […]
‘Happiness is statistically abnormal’: happiness after nihilism
Happiness is a kind of madness Look around you. Examine the world you live in. Give it a cursory glance. How could you not conclude that happiness is a delusional […]
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