Saturday, May 25, 2013
Some Problems in Ecological Philosophy (MP3)
Two hours of fantastic conversation, I thought. Hosted by the Philosophy Department at Erasmus University, Rotterdam. Sjoerd van Tuinen presiding.
What Is Ecological Philosophy? Q&A
It was long and thanks to Henk it was very detailed. Featuring drawings on blackboards!
What Is Ecological Philosophy? (MP3)
Henk Oosterling is
(1) A very nice chap
(2) An excellent mind
(3) Deeply interested in martial arts and Buddhism
(4) Last but not least, someone who has created the most extraordinary school, sort of Plato's academy for 4 to 12 year olds in a struggling neighborhood of Rotterdam. Earth measuring (geometry) as philosophy, judo and growing things class(es).
Wow.
Anyway--more on that in another post. Here is what we did last night.
(1) A very nice chap
(2) An excellent mind
(3) Deeply interested in martial arts and Buddhism
(4) Last but not least, someone who has created the most extraordinary school, sort of Plato's academy for 4 to 12 year olds in a struggling neighborhood of Rotterdam. Earth measuring (geometry) as philosophy, judo and growing things class(es).
Wow.
Anyway--more on that in another post. Here is what we did last night.
Friday, May 24, 2013
Things Are Fuzzy (MP3)
This is the Yes Naturally talk. It was extraordinary as I've said to see the art of Ai Wei Wei and so on, all exploring the idea of ecology without nature, which was the brief of the exhibition. I was struck by the exemplarity of Person Broersen and Margit Lukacs's movie Mastering Bambi, which was by turns an idyllic pastoral and a horror movie—yet without actors and with only one single shot, simply changes in color and music, a Möbius journey through a dark forest. Wow. I'll post more on everything as time goes by. Q&A mp3 to follow.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Extraordinary
Yes Naturally is an incredible exhibition. It was profoundly touching and also very humbling to see one's ideas expressed in a nonverbal form, so much better than one could have done oneself. If you are near it you should go. Ai Wei Wei is in there. This incredible video piece is there--I shall try to describe it later. And on and on. Infrastructural art that points out how things just function in our background ("nature") is there, being all object oriented. I couldn't believe it.
Also, scholarly life has started working even better now I talk about the lineage of French feminism. More soon.
Also, scholarly life has started working even better now I talk about the lineage of French feminism. More soon.
Environmentality (MP3)
This was a "masterclass." Nicholas Royle opened the discussion by asking what I thought of the notion of "mastery." Wow! There thus devolved an enormous excursus on this issue that blended strangely nicely into the discussion of weird environmental poetics...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013
Reflections on Creativity in the Anthropocene (MP3)
Sussex University is incredible and Lewes is incredible and Nicholas Royle is incredible. And the Q&A was incredible!
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Monday, May 20, 2013
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Mark Payne
One of the great benefits of being in Chicago was to have hung out just now with Mark Payne, a classics scholar and old and rekindled friend. We used to live adjacent to one another in New Buildings 1 at Magdalen College. He is a very very smart guy. And a very very funny guy. It turns out we are both fans of Joe Wenderoth, the Ali G of agonized laughter. And we both think about ecology.
Symposium wrap up soon. It was incredible, is the headline.
Symposium wrap up soon. It was incredible, is the headline.
Saturday, May 18, 2013
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