Colin Wilson (1931 - 2013): The High and the Low (Part 1 Complete) -- A ...

source: ThinkingAllowedTV  2013年12月15日
This is the full broadcast portion of the 88-minute DVD interview.
http://www.thinkingallowed.com/2cwils...

In this moving and profound program, Colin Wilson shares his personal struggle in dealing with states of panic and depression. His attempt to cope with these difficult experiences has led him to explore states of extreme lucidity and self-control.

Colin Wilson was one of the most prolific writers in the English language. His novels include The Mind Parasites, The Philosopher's Stone and Sex Diary of a Metaphysician. Other major works include A Criminal History of Mankind, The Occult, Mysteries, Religion and the Rebel, The New Existentialism, New Pathways in Psychology and The Outsider--his first and most famous book.

A Thinking Allowed program, hosted by Jeffrey Mishlove

Graham Harman. Speculative Realism. 2013

source: egsvideo  2013年12月04日
http://www.egs.edu/ Graham Harman, American philosopher, talking about speculative realism, philosophy, natural sciences, fine art, correlational circle, object, plasma. In the lecture Graham Harman discusses the concepts of phenomenology, pre-socratics, quality, in relationship to Bruno Latour, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Heidegger, Whitehead, Deleuze, Meillassoux, focusing on surplus, materialism, idealism. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2013 Graham Harman.

Graham Harman (born May 9, 1968) is a professor at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He is a contemporary philosopher of metaphysics, who attempts to reverse the linguistic turn of Western philosophy. Harman is associated with Speculative Realism in philosophy, which was the name of a workshop that also included the philosophers Ray Brassier, Iain Hamilton Grant, and Quentin Meillassoux.

Central to Harman's philosophy is the idea that real objects are inexhaustible: "A police officer eating a banana reduces this fruit to a present-at-hand profile of its elusive depth, as do a monkey eating the same banana, a parasite infecting it, or a gust of wind blowing it from a tree. Banana-being is a genuine reality in the world, a reality never exhausted by any relation to it by humans or other entities." (Harman 2005: 74). Because of this inexhaustibility, claims Harman, there is a metaphysical problem regarding how two objects can ever interact. His solution to this problem is to introduce the notion of "vicarious causation", according to which objects can only ever interact on the inside of an "intention" (which is also an object).

His works include Tool-Being: Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Objects (2002), Towards Speculative Realism: Essays and Lectures (2010), Circus Philosophicus (2010), Weird Realism: Lovecraft and Philosophy (2012) and Bells and Whistles: More Speculative Realism (2013).

Sigrid Hackenberg. Reading Philosophy as Fiction. 2013

source: egsvideo  2013年12月19日
http://www.egs.edu/ Sigrid Hackenberg, philosopher and thinker, talking about the duplicity, philosophy, fiction, and language. In the lecture Sigrid Hackenberg discusses the concepts of knowledge, semiotic, symbolic, Hegel, in relationship to Susan Sontag, Freud, Agamben, Catherine Clément, Barthes, Foucault, focusing on captivation, poetics, and Julia Kristeva. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2013 Sigrid Hackenberg.

Sigrid Hackenberg y Almansa, Ph.D., was born in Barcelona, Spain, to German and Spanish parents. An interdisciplinary artist and philosopher based in New York, she is an Assistant Professor of Media Philosophy at the European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Wallis, Switzerland. Her scholarly research interests lie within Continental philosophy and feminism. Recent essays have focused on such topics as the philosophy of language, the act of reading and writing, and 'ethics as first philosophy.' She is the author of a forthcoming study on the writings of G.W.F. Hegel and Emmanuel Levinas(Atropos Press). A book focusing on the topic of language and the feminine is currently in preparation. Hackenberg y Almansa's latest video and sound installation, focusing on the subject of the Spanish Civil War and created in collaboration with Dolores R. A. Hackenberg, was recently commissioned by the Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC), Badajoz, Spain.

Sigrid Hackenberg is the author for Total History, Anti-History and the Face that is Other, "The Figure of Total History, the Sacred and Terror" in Stephen David Ross (Editor). International Studies in Philosophy (2007), she edited journals Poligrafi - Journal for Interdisciplinary Study of Religion (JISR). She did video and sound installations such as The Torture Series: The Abu Ghraib Portraits (2006), THIS MEANS YOU / Nazism, Holocaust, Resistance 1933-1945 (2003), ICH HEIßE (my name is) ROSA LUXEMBURG (2001), and The Time and The Place (1999)