A talk given by Tim Morton at the Performance Studies Department, UC Davis, May 9, 2013.
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Tim Morton Weird Embodiment
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Horace Dediu: Asymco Interview – Why Businesses are more Fragile than People
In this interview, Horace Dediu, Founder of Asymco, explains what characterises a good leader and a successful business.
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Mahmood Mamdani - DEFINE AND RULE: Native as Political Identity
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics presents DEFINE AND RULE: Native as Political Identity A talk by Mahmood Mamdani with discussant Ali Jimale Ahmed November 12, 2012 The CUNY Graduate Center Full details: pcp.gc.cuny.edu/events/define-and-rule-mahmood-mamdani-on-colonial-statecraft/
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Slavoj Zizek - A reply to my critics
Although most of the critiques to which my work was exposed in the last years are “so-called” fast denunciations not worthy of a serious reply, some of them do at least raise pertinent questions : which, exactly, is the status of violence in social life, and how can one justify resort to it? Is in our societies a radical social change – not just a revolt but the imposition of a new order – objectively possible? What is materialism today, beyond the usual versions of deconstructionist discursive materialism, Deleuzian “new materialism,” and scientific naturalism? And, last but not least, what immanent role do jokes play in theory?
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Inside Robbers Cave - Hindsight - ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
This story takes you into the heart of one of social psychology’s most famous experiments. In 1954 in Oklahoma, Turkish-American psychologist Muzafer Sherif brought two groups of 11-year-old boys to a summer camp. What they didn’t know and what they were never told was that their behaviour over the next three weeks would be studied, analysed, discussed and used in theories about war, interracial conflict and prejudice for generations to come.
Almost 60 years since it was conducted, it’s still cited in psychology textbooks today. But what’s less well known is that the Robbers Cave was Sherif’s third attempt to generate peace between warring groups. The earlier studies were the 1949 ‘Happy Valley Camp’ study in Connecticut, and the second was his 1953 ‘Camp Talualac’ study.
‘Inside the Robbers Cave’ tells the story of two of the three studies. Producer Gina Perry’s research unearths a tale of drama, failure, mutiny and intrigue that has been overlooked in official accounts of Sherif’s research.
The program features original archival audio from recordings made during 1953 and 1954.
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/hindsight/inside-robbers-cave/4515060
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Episode #131 – The Rule of 6 – And the 10 Commandments of Content Marketing
It’s getting late in the year and we all know what that means: Buck season. While Ian is stalking the big bucks back in San Diego, Dan’s writing binge in Bali continues. Content Marketing is a hot topic in the
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Rippin’ the Rainbow a New One
We tear into this show with a dark scene from 1665. A young Isaac Newton, hoping to ride out the plague by heading to the country to puzzle over the deep mysteries of the universe, finds himself wondering about light. And vision. He wants to get to the bottom of where color comes from—is it a physical property in the outside world, or something created back inside your eyeball somewhere? James Gleick explains how Newton unlocked the mystery of the rainbow. And, as Victoria Finlay tells us, sucked the poetry out of the heavens.
Jonah Lehrer restores some of the lost magic by way of Goethe—who turned a simple observation into a deep thought: even though color starts in the physical world, it is finished in our minds.
Which, thanks to Mark Changizi, brings us to a very serious question: what do dogs see when they look at the rainbow? We humans see seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet (ROYGBiV!). But as Thomas Cronin and Jay Neitz—two guys who study vision—explain, that’s just a sliver of the spectrum. Along the way, we get some help imagining the rainbow from a choir, and we meet this little sea creature, who with 16 color receptors, blows the rest of us earthlings out of the water:
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omega tau » 106 – Game Theory
omega tau - wissenschaft und technik im kopfhoerer / science and engineering in your headphones
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Graham Harman’s Object Lesson (Episode 4) - Cultural Technologies Podcast
Philosopher Graham Harman, one of the major figures in the philosophical movement known as speculative realism, talks about object-oriented philosophy and his book The Quadruple Object. We also chat about Bruno Latour, the Egyptian revolution, Foucault, Freud, animal rights, and whether or not guns kill people.
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