PEDAGOGIES OF COLLAPSE: Not the collapse of pedagogy

2024-11-28T15:45:54+01:00

“I want students to come to my class aware and appraised of the scientific consensus, endowed with intimate knowledge of the plant and animal world, undaunted by the prospect of fixing a broken pipe or upcycling a torn shirt, so that we may spend the precious time we have together preparing the world that [...]

PEDAGOGIES OF COLLAPSE: Not the collapse of pedagogy2024-11-28T15:45:54+01:00

HERALD OF A RESTLESS WORLD: Philosopher’s Routine

2024-10-30T10:35:52+01:00

It’s telling when you have to start a discussion of a philosopher’s biography with *no spoilers!* But such is the case with Emily Herring’s biography of Henri Bergson, HERALD OF A RESTLESS WORLD. “The world Henri Bergson was born into was one in which aspects of reality once believed to be stable and eternal [...]

HERALD OF A RESTLESS WORLD: Philosopher’s Routine2024-10-30T10:35:52+01:00

TURNING TO STONE: What is it like to be a planet?

2024-09-23T15:10:22+02:00

“We are fundamentally Earthlings,” writes Bjornerud in TURNING TO STONE. In the science fiction novella Story of your Life,[i] a linguist and a physicist attempt to initiate a dialogue with an extraterrestrial species hovering in spaceships above Earth. As the linguist studies the alien language, her perception of time changes. She experiences glimpses of [...]

TURNING TO STONE: What is it like to be a planet?2024-09-23T15:10:22+02:00

SAD PLANETS makes me happy

2024-08-30T09:28:39+02:00

“Being an earthling in the present moment is an intrinsically sad proposition; arguably even sadder than previous incarnations due to the social dimension of disaster, hastening an already too fleeting finitude. In simpler terms, it did not need to be like this. Humans did not need to trash the planet. They – we [...]

SAD PLANETS makes me happy2024-08-30T09:28:39+02:00

Challenging Time: Reading Against Climate Madness

2024-08-20T09:11:18+02:00

We live in a time when it is crucial to meditate, but also, as Bernard Stiegler put it, “an emergency whose urgency means that it precisely excludes meditation”. Reading is a form of meditation, a form of thinking and feeling. It is a way of challenging time. Let’s read together in these next [...]

Challenging Time: Reading Against Climate Madness2024-08-20T09:11:18+02:00
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