Graham Harman. Black Holes. 2014

source: European Graduate School     2015年3月16日
http://www.egs.edu Graham Harman, Philosopher, talking about the thing-in-itself, black holes, withdrawn objects, Speculative Realism, Heidegger, correlationism, essence, Object Oriented Philosophy, the History of Philosophy, materialism. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2014. Graham Harman.

Slavoj Zizek. Ideology and Modalities of Not Knowing. 2014

source: European Graduate School   2015年3月10日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic, talking about ideology, transgressions and modalities of not knowing. How are transgressions inscribed in systems of power, and what counts as a subversion of such a system? Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2014 Slavoj Zizek.

Giorgio Agamben. Resistance in Art. 2014

source: European Graduate School  2015年3月2日
http://www.egs.edu/ Giorgio Agamben, Italian philosopher and writer, delivers a lecture in which he takes up a Deleuzean thread considering the act of creation as an act of resistance. Agamben discusses potentiality, impotentiality and actuality which is a philosophical problem dating back to Aristotle. The potential in the act of creation not only resists an external force, but also the impotentiality itself which is internal. This relation is unique to humans and allows for the act of creation such that it exists in no other species. This resistance acts as a critical power which restrains the blind drive of potentiality, leading to the retention of some imperfection and therefore the simultaneous exertion of potentiality and impotentiality. This, Agamben will call, Poetics of Inoperativity. Further, he will claim that true human praxis, by making inoperative works and functions of humans, will open the possibility for new works and usage. Open lecture delivered to the students and faculty of the European Graduate School, August 2014.

Jacques Rancière. An Archaeology of the Temporality of Modernism and Ava...

source: European Graduate School  2015年2月4日
http://www.egs.edu/ Jacques Rancière, philosopher of aesthetics and politics, delivering a talk on the temporality of modernism as "the time of the not-yet." Rancière presents his reading of artistic modernism as communist treatment of heterogeneous movement and time in the work of Emerson, Vertov, Mallarmé, Woolf and others. Topics discussed include dance, poetry, capitalism, art as the creation of new forms of life, freedom, leisure, and work. Other philosophers mentioned are Hegel, Marx, Aristotle, Schiller, and Grundberg. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2014.

Michael Hardt. The Leadership Problem. 2014

source: European Graduate School  2015年1月27日
http://www.egs.edu/ Michael Hardt, Philosopher, talking about the question of leadership and organization in recent uprisings and political movements, cycles of struggle, democracy, the Arab Spring, Occupy, the commons, the multitude, counter-power. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2014. Michael Hardt.

Catherine Malabou. The future of Continental philosophy. 2014

source: European Graduate School   2015年1月21日
http://www.egs.edu/ Catherine Malabou, philosopher and writer, presents a critical engagement with a question posed by French philosopher Quentin Meillassoux. Meillassoux proposes in his book, After Finitude, that we must relinquish the transcendental which would also mean a break with Kant. This break, for Malabou, also brings us to a larger question which deals with the future of Continental philosophy. Can we continue to do Continental philosophy, which essentially begins with Kant and therefore hinges on an acceptance of the transcendental; or, if we assent, must we begin to move towards the Analytic tradition? Malabou lays out and critiques the arguments of Meillassoux, shows existing critiques of Kant and the transcendental which have come from the Continental tradition, then reveals how she would answer this question which has been put forward. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2014.

Christopher Fynsk. The Transformative Lecture. 2014

source: European Graduate School  2015年1月6日
http://www.egs.edu/ Chris Fynsk, American philosopher , talking about pedagogy, the lecture, higher education, academia, the humanities, teaching, Heidegger, Ranciere, Lyotard and the right of speech. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe. 2014.

Judith Butler. Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling. 2014

source: European Graduate School   2015年1月1日
http://www.egs.edu Judith Butler, philosopher and author, speaking about avowal and disavowal in conversation with Michel Foucault's Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling in which Foucault attempts to establish a set of modifications which have taken place in the practice of avowal leading to an increasing connection with juridical and penal practices. Public Open Lecture at the European Graduate School in August 2014.

Avital Ronell. Walking as a philosophical act. 2014

source: European Graduate School   2014年12月26日
http://www.egs.edu/ Avital Ronell, philosopher and author, takes us through some thoughts on walking as a philosophical act. She explores the walker as well as possible accidents or diversions, tumbling and toppling over which may find us or which we may find along the way. Encounters and their counters, interlocutors and those who we come up against, Ronell takes us through literary tracks and typologies of the walker. Through the Reveries of a Solitary Walker of Rousseau as well as Nietzsche, Celan and DeMan, and Heidegger, Ronell expounds on variations of this theme in the opening lecture of the series at the European Graduate School in August 2014.

John Frazer. Computational Design. 2014

source: European Graduate School  2014年12月11日
http://www.egs.edu/ In this lecture John Frazer asks, what exactly was it about designing that needed aiding before computer aided design? Frazer describes the history of computational design through his own work, it’s operating mechanisms, tools, and possibilities. Public Open Lecture for students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee Switzerland, Europe 2014

How do geckos defy gravity? - Eleanor Nelsen

source: TED-Ed     2015年3月30日
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Geckos aren’t covered in adhesives or hooks or suction cups, and yet they can effortlessly scale vertical walls and hang from ceilings. What’s going on? Eleanor Nelsen explains how geckos’ phenomenal feet allow them to defy gravity.
Lesson by Eleanor Nelsen, animation by Marie-Louise Højer Jensen.

Earworms: Those songs that get stuck in your head - Elizabeth Hellmuth M...

source: TED-Ed     2015年3月26日
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Have you ever been waiting in line at the grocery store, innocently perusing the magazine rack, when a song pops into your head? Not the whole song, but a fragment of it that plays and replays until you find yourself unloading the vegetables in time to the beat? Elizabeth Hellmuth Margulis explores earworms — a cognitive phenomenon that plagues over 90% of people at least once a week.
Lesson by Elizabeth Margulis, animation by Artrake Studio.

What did democracy really mean in Athens? - Melissa Schwartzberg

source: TED-Ed      2015年3月24日
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While we might consider elections to be the cornerstone of democracy, the Athenians who coined the term actually employed a lottery system to choose most of their politicians. Melissa Schwartzberg describes the ins and outs of the Athenian democracy, and addresses some ways in which a lottery system might benefit us today.
Lesson by Melissa Schwartzberg, animation by TED-Ed.

Where did Earth’s water come from? - Zachary Metz

source: TED-Ed      2015年3月23日
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Water covers over 70% of the Earth, cycling from the oceans and rivers to the clouds and back again. It even makes up about 60% of our bodies. But in the rest of the solar system, liquid water is almost impossible to find. So how did our planet end up with so much of this substance? And where did it come from? Zachary Metz outlines the ancient origins of water on Earth.
Lesson by Zachary Metz, animation by The Moving Company Animation Studio.

The Science of Awkwardness

source: Vsauce     2015年3月20日
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music by http://www.youtube.com/JakeChudnow

Plato’s Allegory of the Cave - Alex Gendler

source: TED-Ed    2015年3月17日
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Twenty four hundred years ago, Plato, one of history’s most famous thinkers, said life is like being chained up in a cave forced to watch shadows flitting across a stone wall. Beyond sounding quite morbid, what exactly did he mean? Alex Gendler unravels Plato's Allegory of the Cave, found in Book VII of "The Republic."
Lesson by Alex Gendler, animation by Stretch Films, Inc.

Why it’s so hard to cure HIV/AIDS - Janet Iwasa

source: TED-Ed     2015年3月16日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-it-s-so...
In 2008, something incredible happened: a man was cured of HIV. In over 70 million HIV cases, this was a first, and, so far, a last, and we don’t yet understand exactly how he was cured. But if we can cure people of various diseases, like malaria and hepatitis C, why can’t we cure HIV? Janet Iwasa examines the specific traits of the HIV virus that make it so difficult to cure.
Lesson by Janet Iwasa, animation by Javier Saldeña.

Can robots be creative? - Gil Weinberg

source: TED-Ed     2015年3月19日
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People have been grappling with the question of artificial creativity -- alongside the question of artificial intelligence -- for over 170 years. For instance, could we program machines to create high quality original music? And if we do, is it the machine or the programmer that exhibits creativity? Gil Weinberg investigates this creative conundrum.
Lesson by Gil Weinberg, animation by TOGETHER.

Human Extinction

source: Vsauce     2015年3月7日
Some ideas about our end.
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Cruel Bombs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHZAa...
Risk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-CK8...
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The real story behind Archimedes’ Eureka! - Armand D'Angour

source: TED-Ed    2015年3月13日
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When you think of Archimedes’ Eureka moment, you probably imagine a man in a bathtub, right? As it turns out, there's much more to the story. Armand D'Angour tells the story of Archimedes' biggest assignment -- an enormous floating palace commissioned by a king -- that helped him find Eureka.

Lesson by Armand D'Angour, animation by Zedem Media.

Learning from smallpox: How to eradicate a disease - Julie Garon and Wal...

source: TED-Ed      2015年3月10日
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For most of human history, we have sought to treat and cure diseases. But only in recent decades did it become possible to ensure that a particular disease never threatens humanity again. Julie Garon and Walter A. Orenstein detail how the story of smallpox – the first and only disease to be permanently eliminated – shows how disease eradication can happen, and why it is so difficult to achieve.

Lesson by Julie Garon and Walter A. Orenstein, animation by TOGETHER.

How brain parasites change their host's behavior - Jaap de Roode

source: TED-Ed      2015年3月9日
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The biggest challenge in a parasite’s life is to move from one host to another. Intriguingly, many parasites have evolved the ability to manipulate the behavior of their hosts to improve their own survival -- sometimes even by direct brain control. Jaap de Roode details a few parasites that can really mess with the mind.

Lesson by Jaap de Roode, animation by Andrew Foerster.

Why sitting is bad for you - Murat Dalkilinç

source: TED-Ed      2015年3月5日
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Sitting down for brief periods can help us recover from stress or recuperate from exercise. But nowadays, our lifestyles make us sit much more than we move around. Are our bodies built for such a sedentary existence? Murat Dalkilinç investigates the hidden risks of sitting down.

Lesson by Murat Dalkilinç, animation by Oxbow Creative.

Rhythm in a box: The story of the cajon drum - Paul Jennings

source: TED-Ed     2015年3月3日
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Many modern musical instruments are complicated pieces of machinery with many moving parts. But the cajon is simply a drum and a stand and a seat all in one box. Paul Jennings explains the history behind the cajon and how it has become one of the most versatile and popular percussion instruments in the world today.

Lesson by Paul Jennings, animation by Avi Ofer.

How does the thyroid manage your metabolism? - Emma Bryce

source: TED-Ed     2015年3月2日
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Nestled in the tissues of your neck is a small, unassuming organ that wields enormous power over your body: the thyroid. Emma Bryce explains how the thyroid, like the operations manager in a company, is tasked with making sure that all the cells in your body are working properly.

Lesson by Emma Bryce, animation by Tremendousness.