Making Life – exploring the philosophical implications of research that aims to create it from scratch
How do different fields try to get at the nitty gritty of what living systems require in order to fit the definition of “alive”? How have re...
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The Tympanic Eclipse (www.tympaniceclipse.org)
The Tympanic Eclipse is an audio podcast that brings cultural theory out of its stuffy scholarly tomes, and puts it into your ears! Together with established thinkers and makers, it explores...
Episodes
6 episodes
THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE//Bioartcamp – biologists, artists, philosophers, and the wilderness
What do you get when you bring biologists, artists, philosophers and filmmakers out into the Canadian Rocky Mountains on a 2 week research-c...
THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE//Cybernetics Shows Us A World That Modern Science Can’t - What Stuff is Really Like
What is capital M Modern science? How have humans cooked it up? What is cybernetics? And how are they different? Dr. Andy Pickering ties tog...
It’s hard to be critical these days! Academia and Activism.
Our university departments are becoming increasingly interdisciplinary where people from different backgrounds come together to keep each ot...
THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE // My house is recording me, my house is selling me?
Smart phones, smart boards, smart homes…. every technology is apparently so darn smart, but how are we keeping up with these gadgets ourselv...
THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE // Working to protect people we’ll never meet
What would the future be like if there were governmentally appointed people alive today who worked to protect the basic qualities of life fo...