lectures/ideas: March 2016

2016-03-31

Michel Foucault - The Culture of the Self, First Lecture (1-7)

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source: apolloxias's channel 2010年7月13日
This is the first in a series of three lectures in which French philosopher Michel Foucault examines Western culture's conceptual development of individual subjectivity. He gave these lectures, in English, at UC Berkeley, beginning on April 12, 1983, roughly a year before he died. There are some negligible distortions in the tape.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fou...

What would happen if you didn’t drink water? - Mia Nacamulli

source: TED-Ed 2016年3月29日
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Water is essentially everywhere in our world, and the average human is composed of between 55 and 60% water. So what role does water play in our bodies, and how much do we actually need to drink to stay healthy? Mia Nacamulli details the health benefits of hydration.
Lesson by Mia Nacamulli, animation by Chris Bishop.

Aron Dunlap: Living in the Age of Anxiety; Jacques Lacan in Dialogue with Paul Tillich and Hannah Arendt

source: Shimer College Chicago 2015年4月8日
Public Lecture by Dr. Aron Dunlap, Asst. Prof. of the Liberal Arts at Shimer College, delivered at the Seminary Co-op Bookstore
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In the years following WWII there seemed to be a general consensus among intellectuals in the West that if there was a pathological underbelly to any psychological health we might presume to own, it was anxiety. This was, they agreed, the Age of Anxiety, which was the title of a long poem by W.H. Auden that functioned as the inspiration for Leonard Bernstein’s 2nd symphony. The phrase made its way into common parlance and we see it forming the nucleus of concern in theologian Paul Tillich’s tremendously popular work, The Courage to Be. In this work, Tillich agreed with existentialists such as Sartre that, while fear has an object, the problem with anxiety was that it had none. For these thinkers, anxiety was part and parcel of human life, and one had to learn to take responsibility for a life that would never be free of the awe(ful) dread of living and the certainty of death. For Freud, the neurotic anxiety issuing from the castration complex was a kind of “bedrock” beyond which psychoanalysis could not venture. In his wake, Jacques Lacan re-interpreted this aspect of his master’s thought while also challenging the existentialists by claiming that anxiety, in fact, is “not without its object,” namely, objet a, the object cause of desire, which stands in the confluence of Lacan’s three registers of the Symbolic, Imaginary and Real, and which is an entirely dependable “signal” of the Real. While Hannah Arendt uses a radically different vocabulary, there is, in her political thought, something that, like objet a, falls away. In the American political experience what falls away is enjoyment in politics. What takes its places is the inevitable duality (right, left; conservative, liberal) that settles down in the place vacated by the object cause of desire.

For more of Dr. Dunlap on Jacques Lacan, be sure to check out his YouTube lecture "The Borromean Knot of Jaques Lacan; Or, How to Beat Your Death Drive."
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About Shimer College:
Located minutes from the Loop in Chicago, Shimer College is an independent, four-year liberal arts college that enrolls approximately 150 students. Founded in 1853 as the Mount Carroll Seminary, Shimer today provides a comprehensive, regularly-reviewed core curriculum that brings foundational books of the liberal arts to bear on the pressing problems of our time. Shimer College is committed to a primary-source, textbook-free curriculum, seminars of twelve or fewer students, and an ethos of community and service within a diverse group of students, teachers, scholars, and staff. Shimer offers traditional four-year degrees as well as early entrance and transfer pathways. To learn more about Shimer or to schedule a visit, check out our website at www.shimer.edu .

'The Death of the Author' Simplified (Roland Barthes)

source: Luke Perkins 2014年1月24日
A simplified explanation of the Ideas surrounding Roland Barthes' 'The Death of the Author'. The critical theory of authorship.

Hegel, Nietzsche, Vattimo and John Rawls: Religious Discussion in the Public Forum after the Death by H. Tristram Engelhardt

source: 2014年9月29日
A lecture by H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr.for the third annual fall conference, "From Death to Life: Agendas for Reform" on September 26-28, 2002.

Homi Bhabha: "On Global Memory: Thoughts on the Barbaric Transmission of...

source: UC Berkeley Events 2008年4月21日
Homi Bhabha presented his lecture as part of the Townsend Center for the Humanities' Forum on the Humanities and the Public World. Bhabha is Anne F. Rothenberg Professor of English and American Literature and Language and Director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University. Considered one of the most important figures in postcolonial studies, Bhabha introduced the concepts of hybridity, mimicry, difference, and ambivalence to the field.
Sponsored by the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities http://townsendcenter.berkeley.edu/

Eric Weiner: "The Geography of Genius" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年1月22日
New York Times best-selling author Eric Weiner visited Google's Mountain View campus to discuss his new book, "The Geography of Genius."

In his previous New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss (2008), Eric Weiner searched for the happiest places in the world. Now, in "The Geography of Genius," he sets out to examine the connection between our surroundings and our most innovative ideas.

Weiner writes: “The toddler steps of incremental innovation don’t earn you a patent, or the title of genius. Only a leap does. The question that intrigues someone such as myself, a creature of geography and a student of history, is not simply what these leaps look like but where, and when, they take place… certain places, at certain times, produced a bumper crop of brilliant minds and good ideas. The question is why.”

In an attempt to find the answer, Weiner travels the globe exploring the history of ancient Athens, Song Dynasty Hangzhou, Renaissance Florence, Enlightenment Edinburgh, Calcutta, Vienna of 1900, and today’s Silicon Valley, illustrating how certain urban settings are conducive to ingenuity. With insightful humor, Weiner walks the same paths as the geniuses who flourished in these places, to see if the spirit of what inspired figures like Socrates, Michelangelo, and Mozart still remains.

Along the way, Weiner describes important research about genius and the contribution geography can make to creativity. He learns why geniuses thrive during times of tension and even chaos, how oysters (yes, oysters) played a pivotal role in the Scottish Enlightenment, how the Renaissance may never have happened if not for the plague, and why the genius of Silicon Valley has little to do with technology.

Provocative and entertaining, THE GEOGRAPHY OF GENIUS is an informed romp through history that will start a national conversation about the importance of culture in nurturing creativity. Weiner shows we need to change the way we think about creative genius—not simply as a matter of genetics or even hard work but, rather, the fruits of a culture that encourages ingenuity. Genius, he argues, is not a private act but a public commitment. As he writes: “If it takes a village to raise a child… it takes a city to raise a genius.”

Eric Weiner is a philosophical traveler and recovering malcontent. His books include the New York Times bestseller The Geography of Bliss and Man Seeks God. A former foreign correspondent for NPR, his work has appeared in Slate, Quartz, Foreign Policy, the BBC, AFAR, The Best American Travel Writing, and elsewhere. For some reason, he lives in the Washington, D.C. area.

Naren Shankar & Mark Fergus: “The Expanse” | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年2月23日
Naren Shankar and Mark Fergus, showrunners for the new Syfy series “The Expanse” join Nick Farmer at Google (http://www.syfy.com/theexpanse).
Naren Shankar is a writer, producer and director of several television series, including CSI and Almost Human. Mark Fergus, is a screenwriter best known for his work with Hawk Ostby on Children of Men and Iron Man. Nick Farmer is creator of the Belter creole for The Expanse (http://www.nickfarmerlinguist.com/).
The Expanse Syfy TV series is based on the best selling novel series by James S.A. Corey (http://www.jamessacorey.com/).

2016-03-30

Can you solve the locker riddle? - Lisa Winer

source: TED-Ed 2016年3月28日
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Your rich, eccentric uncle just passed away, and you and your 99 nasty relatives have been invited to the reading of his will. He wanted to leave all of his money to you, but he knew that if he did, your relatives would pester you forever. Can you solve the riddle he left for you and get the inheritance? Lisa Winer shows how.
Lesson by Lisa Winer, animation by Artrake Studio.

Rachel K. Ward. Roland Barthes and Fashion Photography. 2012

source: European Graduate School 2013年3月19日
http://www.egs.edu/ Rachel K. Ward, talking about the dude, male, hipster, and modesty. In the lecture Rachel K. Ward discusses the concepts of silence, fantasy, fashion, photography, in relationship to Georg Simmel, Karl Lagerfeld, Roland Barthes, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, focusing on brands, isolation, spectacle, and signifiers. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2012 Rachel K Ward.

Rachel K. Ward, Ph.D., is a rising philosopher who specializes in the intersection of fashion and art. She is a Professor of fashion media at the European Graduate School (EGS) where she teaches an intensive summer seminar. The focus of her work is visual culture as meta-language, specifically how fashion images serve as a site for the negotiation of desire. For Ward, fashion photography functions as an intersection of aesthetic, ethical and social values. As a popular but equally creative and often progressive media it crosses thresholds of both journalism and art. The result is a unique form of media that works to advance ideal, mythical and capitalist desires.

Ward has a combination of academic and professional experience in the US and Europe. Her Ph.D. dissertation was entitled "The Vanishing Point: Decadence, Desire, Truth", receiving the Magna Cum Laude distinction at EGS. Ward also holds an MA in Art History, receiving Cum Laude distinction at the University of Florida. Her graduate thesis on artist Edward Ruscha, entitled "Scenic Drive," was published by MAXXI in Rome. Ward also holds a BA in Psychology, with an Art History minor, from Stetson University, Florida. Ward supports her academic work with more than a decade of professional experience in international fashion and art. She has been featured for her creative work in Vogue (Paris), as well as in the New York Times, Artforum's "Best of" and others. Additionally, she has written journalism for the New York Times global edition, Haute Living, V Magazine and ArtReview. She has also consulted in fashion and art branding, photography and private collections.

Academy 2013 Hegel: the unnatural historian (by Frank Furedi)

source: 2013年11月26日
At the Institute of Ideas Academy 2013, Professor Frank Furedi delivered a plenary lecture on Hegel. This is the video of that lecture and the Q&A session which followed, chaired by Angus Kennedy of the Institute of Ideas.

GTAC 2015: Robot Assisted Test Automation

source: GoogleTechTalks 2015年11月26日
http://g.co/gtac
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/...
Hans Kuosmanen (OptoFidelity) and Natalia Leinonen (OptoFidelity)
OptoFidelity is a Finnish high-tech company with 10 years of experience in developing and delivering R&D test automation solutions. This talk will include our experiences and future outlook of non-intrusive test methods used in mobile device UI performance testing. Did you know that Chrome OS team uses a robot solution from OptoFidelity to measure end-to-end latency of Android and Chrome OS devices?

Secretary William Perry: "My Journey at the Nuclear Brink" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年2月23日
Dr. Perry talks about nuclear weapons and disarmament issues.
"My Journey at the Nuclear Brink" is a continuation of William J. Perry's efforts to keep the world safe from a nuclear catastrophe. It tells the story of his coming of age in the nuclear era, his role in trying to shape and contain it, and how his thinking has changed about the threat these weapons pose.

In a remarkable career, Perry has dealt firsthand with the changing nuclear threat. Decades of experience and special access to top-secret knowledge of strategic nuclear options have given Perry a unique, and chilling, vantage point from which to conclude that nuclear weapons endanger our security rather than securing it.

This book traces his journey from the Cuban Missile Crisis to crafting a defense strategy in the Carter Administration, to offsetting the Soviets' numeric superiority in conventional forces to the dismantling of more than 8,000 nuclear weapons in the Clinton Administration, and to his creation in 2007 -- with George Shultz, Sam Nunn, and Henry Kissinger -- of the Nuclear Security Project to articulate their vision of a world free from nuclear weapons.

Perry was the 19th US Secretary of Defense from February 1994 to January 1997. He previously served as Deputy Secretary of Defense (1993–1994) and as Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (1977–1981). He is the Michael and Barbara Berberian Professor (emeritus) at Stanford University.
Talk hosted by Boris Debic.

Health and Environmental Economic Policy (Fall 2014) - Michael Anderson at UCBerkeley

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source: UCBerkeley Last updated on 2014年12月10日
Environmental Economics and Policy 145, 001 - Fall 2014
Health and Environmental Economic Policy - Michael Anderson
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Is Theory Critical?

source: UCI Media Services 2015年8月4日
What is the environment for “critical theory” going forward? To what extent can or should such concepts as the Anthropocene, globalization, neocapitalism, or neoliberalism frame current and emerging modes of critical practice?
Moderator: David Theo Goldberg
Panelists: Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Sim, Geoffrey Bennington, Ackbar Abbas, Lilith Mahmud
Day 1 | Friday, May 22

2016-03-29

The poet who painted with his words - Geneviève Emy

source: TED-Ed 2016年3月21日
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Among the great poets of literary history, certain names like Homer, Shakespeare and Whitman are instantly recognizable. However, there’s an early 20th century great poet whose name you may not know: Guillaume Apollinaire. Geneviève Emy shows how during Apollinaire’s short lifetime he created poetry that combined text and image in a way that seemingly predicted a artistic revolution to come.
Lesson by Geneviève Emy, animation by TED-Ed.

Scientific Approaches to Consciousness(Fall 2014) - John F. Kihlstrom at UCBerkeley

Danilyn Rutherford: Structuralism and Materialism

source: WGSS OSU 2014年12月16日
The Ohio State University, Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies presents:
Professor Danilyn Rutherford, Department of Anthropology, University of California-Santa Cruz
Structuralism and Materialism
How does structuralism matter? How does it still matter at this centenary, well past its heyday in anthropology and the other so-called “sciences of man?” In this talk, I go out on a limb and offer a forceful and somewhat perverse response to this question. Certain premises associated with structuralism are at the heart of some of the most interesting new work in anthropology and related fields. I take as my starting point Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Elementary Structures of Kinship (1969) with a focus on moments where Lévi-Strauss finds himself compelled to tell us how kinship begins. I compare how Lévi-Strauss and more recent writers on kinship, sociality, and normativity treat what I call the matter of residence, the matter of relation, and the matter of difference. One part memoir, one part self-interested map of the lay of the land, my talk ends with some autoethnographic reflections on how the study of disability can contribute to debates over the nature of sign use and sociality. “There is nothing outside of language.” Structuralism might want to tell itself this, but it can’t avoid admitting awkward intruders of the sort I consider. These awkward intruders can lead us to a way of thinking about reality as both material and relational – material because relational through and through.

Professor Danilyn Rutherford (Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz) is a past president of the Society for Cultural Anthropology and former fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. She is the author of Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua (U Chicago Press) and Raiding the Land of Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on the Indonesian Frontier (Princeton UP). Her articles have appeared in Cultural Anthropology, Public Culture, American Ethnologist, and Comparative Studies in Society and History.

Sponsored by Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Co-sponsored with Anthropology, Comparative Studies, and Linguistics

INTRO: Hegel by Shane Stroup

source: 2013年11月8日
This is a "brief" overview of Hegel for my Intro to Phil course.

Sean Homer: Reading Film with Lacan (1-16), 2007

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source: LacanAsia TV - Hong Kong 2008年3月3日
This is a seminar by Dr. Sean Homer (August 2007) about Lacan's concept of Jouissance, object a and desire and how he makes use of the concept to discuss some European films.

Jonathan Cohen: 40 Years of Designing and Making Furniture

source: GoogleTechTalks 2016年1月28日
January 11, 2016
Presented by Jonathan Cohen

ABSTRACT
For this talk I have prepared images, details and anecdotes from forty years of handmade furniture making. In presenting them to you, I intend to seduce you with the staggering beauty that is the wood itself, elucidate any curiosities you might have about various techniques, and regale you with stories of famous clients and surprising moments. I studied design at Cornell, spent a few years working around the world on a cruise ship, and then decided, much like some of you, to head west and find my fortune in the beautiful Northwest. (Fortune. Hah! We are speaking of woodworking here). This became a torrid love affair with the possibilities of this most magnificent of materials. That affair continues to this day. Hopefully, some of that ardor will pass on to you.

About the Speaker
Jonathan Cohen studied design at Cornell, and afterwards decided, probably like many of you, that his future lay in the beautiful Northwest. At 22, he cluelessly dove in to the poorly remunerated, but astronomically satisfying work of designing and hand building furniture. The original plan was to dance around in that for a couple of years, and head back to grad school. Unexpectedly, his work became his grad school. Nearly 40 years later, he has still not come up for air, and he still does not represent a financial challenge to either Larry Page or Sergey Brin ( or Donald Trump for that matter).
CV synopsis: BA Cornell 1978. Opened eponymous studio in 1980. Almost immediately started creating large bodies of work for many collectors such as the co-founder of Microsoft, the founder of Pilchuck, and, more recently, several executives at Google, and hundreds of individual pieces and smaller commissions for people across the U.S. and Europe. Was represented by 7 galleries across the U.S. Had 3 sold-out one-man gallery shows and participated in countless group shows; lectured at the UW school of Architecture for 18 years; continues building one-off pieces of his own design.
His work can be seen at jonathancohenfinewoodworking.com

Julie Rice, Elizabeth Cutler: "SoulCycle" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年2月22日
SoulCycle founders Julie Rice and Elizabeth Cutler visited Google's Mountain View office to discuss their experience transforming a small business into a fitness giant.

Founded in 2005, SoulCycle today boasts a 'spiritual' workout experience with candlelit rooms, heavily-vetted instructors, and over 40 locations. But the soon-to-IPO spin studio started with humble beginnings as a second career for founders Rice and Cutler, who launched the business to create a social fitness experience. Cutler and Rice discuss 'earning an MBA on the job' and revolutionizing the boutique fitness industry.

Before beginning SoulCycle, Julie Rice managed talent in LA, a skillset to which she credits her success as the current Chief Talent and Creative Officer. Elizabeth Cutler, previously in the real estate industry, now acts as the Chief Development and Creative Officer.
Moderated by Sasha Arijanto

Energy and Society (Fall 2014) - Daniel M. Kammen at UCBerkeley

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source: UCBerkeley Last updated on 2014年12月10日
Energy and Resources Group C200, 001 - Fall 2014
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Freedom Time : Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World

source: Columbia Maison Française 2015年11月4日
October 7, 2015 Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World
A panel discussion with Gary Wilder, Etienne Balibar, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, moderated by Bachir Diagne
Gary Wilder's book Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World (Duke University Press, 2015) reconsiders decolonization from the perspectives of Aimé Césaire (Martinique) and Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) who, beginning in 1945, promoted self-determination without state sovereignty. As politicians, public intellectuals, and poets they struggled to transform imperial France into a democratic federation, with former colonies as autonomous members of a transcontinental polity. In so doing, they revitalized past but unrealized political projects and anticipated impossible futures by acting as if they had already arrived.
Gary Wilder is Director, Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change and Professor, Ph.D. Program in Anthropology and Ph.D. Program in History, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Joining him for this panel discussion are Etienne Balibar (Visiting Professor at the ICLS and Department of French, Columbia) and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (University Professor in the Humanities, Columbia), with Bachir Diagne (Chair of Department of French and Professor of Philosophy, Columbia) as moderator.
Event co-sponsored by the Columbia Maison Française, Institute of African Studies, and Institute for Comparative Literature and Society.

2016-03-28

Deirdre Barrett - Why Sleep?

source: Closer To Truth 2016年3月21日
Why do we spend so much of our lives not awake? The physical benefits of sleep cannot be overstated, from fighting disease to ensuring brain health.
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'The Frankfurt School'-In Our Time BBC Radio 4

source: Gaelic Neoreactionary 2015年9月1日
Thu 14 Jan 2010
"Melvyn Bragg and guests Raymond Geuss, Esther Leslie and Jonathan RÃ©e discuss the Frankfurt School.This group of influential left-wing German thinkers set out, in the wake of Germany's defeat in the First World War, to investigate why their country had not had a revolution, despite the apparently revolutionary conditions that spread through Germany in the wake of the 1918 Armistice. To find out why the German workers had not flocked to the Red Flag, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Walter Benjamin and others came together around an Institute set up at Frankfurt University and began to focus their critical attention not on the economy, but on culture, asking how it affected people's political outlook and activities. But then, with the rise of the Nazis, they found themselves fleeing to 1940s California. There, their disenchantment with American popular culture combined with their experiences of the turmoil of the interwar years to produce their distinctive, pessimistic worldview. With the defeat of Nazism, they returned to Germany to try to make sense of the route their native country had taken into darkness. In the 1960s, the Frankfurt School's argument - that most of culture helps to keep its audience compliant with capitalism - had an explosive impact. Arguably, it remains influential today.Raymond Geuss is a professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Cambridge; Esther Leslie is Professor in Political Aesthetics at Birkbeck College, University of London; Jonathan RÃ©e is a freelance historian and philosopher, currently Visiting Professor at Roehampton University and at the Royal College of Art."
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The conception of Geist (spirit), the dialectical method, concepts of being,

source: 2015年4月29日
Lecture 24 from Aspects of Western Philosophy by Dr. Sreekumar Nellickappilly, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences,IIT Madras. For more details on NPTEL, visit http://nptel.ac.in

GTAC 2015: The Uber Challenge of Cross-Application/Cross-Device Testing

source: GoogleTechTalks 2015年11月26日
http://g.co/gtac
Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/...
Apple Chow (Uber) and Bian Jiang (Uber)
Soon after joining Uber in March 2015, we encountered an Uber-unique challenge while investigating UI testing tools for our mobile applications. Many of our sanity tests require our rider application and driver application communicating/coordinating their actions with each other in order to complete the end-to-end testing scenario. In this talk, we will present our platform agnostic solution, called Octopus, and discuss how it coordinates communication across different apps running on different devices. This solution can be adopted for any tests that require coordination/communication across different apps or devices (e.g. a multi-user game, multi-user messaging/communication app, etc.)

Jon Ronson: "So You've Been Publicly Shamed" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年2月18日
Journalist and documentary maker Jon Ronson joined us in London to talk about his book "So You've Been Publicly Shamed".

About the book:
For the past three years, Jon Ronson has travelled the world meeting recipients of high-profile public shamings. The shamed are people like us - people who, say, made a joke on social media that came out badly, or made a mistake at work. Once their transgression is revealed, collective outrage circles with the force of a hurricane and the next thing they know they're being torn apart by an angry mob, jeered at, demonized, sometimes even fired from their job.
A great renaissance of public shaming is sweeping our land. Justice has been democratized. The silent majority are getting a voice. But what are we doing with our voice? We are mercilessly finding people's faults. We are defining the boundaries of normality by ruining the lives of those outside it. We are using shame as a form of social control.
Simultaneously powerful and hilarious in the way only Jon Ronson can be, So You've Been Publicly Shamed is a deeply honest book about modern life, full of eye-opening truths about the escalating war on human flaws - and the very scary part we all play in it.
More about Jon at his website jonronson.com
The book is on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

Human Emotion with June Gruber at Yale University

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source: YaleCourses Last updated on 2014年7月2日

What are our emotions? What purpose do they serve? How do emotions relate to our thoughts, memories, and behaviors towards others? What happens when our emotional responses go awry?
Although these questions date back to early philosophical texts, only recently have experimental psychologists begun to explore this vast and exciting domain of study. The course will begin by discussing the evolutionary origins of distinct emotions such as love, anger, fear, and disgust. We will ask how emotions might color our cognitive processes such as thinking and memory, the relationship between emotions and the brain, development of emotions in childhood, and how emotions shape our social relationships. We will also consider how these methods can be applied to studying mental illness in both children and adults. The course will conclude by studying the pursuit of happiness and well-being, trying to understand what makes us happy. Course website: http://www.yalepeplab.com/teaching/ps...

This course will introduce students to a diverse array of theoretical and empirical issues related to the study of human emotion. Some questions the course will address include: What are our emotions? What purpose do they serve? How do emotions relate to our thoughts, memories, and behaviors towards others? What happens when our emotional responses go awry? Although these questions date back to early philosophical texts, only recently have experimental psychologists begun to explore this vast and exciting domain of study.
The course will begin by discussing the evolutionary origins of distinct emotions such as love, anger, fear, and disgust. We will ask how emotions might color our cognitive processes such as thinking and memory, the relationship between emotions and the brain, development of emotions in childhood, and how emotions shape our social relationships. We will also consider how these methods can be applied to studying mental illness in both children and adults. We conclude by studying the pursuit of happiness and well-being, trying to understand what makes us happy.

This course is part of a broader educational mission to share the study of human emotion beyond the boundaries of the classroom in order to reach students and teachers alike, both locally and globally, through the use of technology. This mission is generously supported by, and in collaboration with, the Yale Office of Digital Dissemination and the Yale College Dean's Office. This series was recorded and produced by Douglas Forbush, Lucas Swineford, and the Yale Broadcasting and Media Center.

1.1: Course Overview by June Gruber 1:23
1.2: Introduction 13:02
1.3: What is an Emotion? 19:03
2.1: Emotion Elicitation I 21:40
2.2: Emotion Elicitation II 21:44
2.3: Emotion Measurement 24:49
3.1: Emotion in Animals 15:30
3.2: Monkeys and Emotion 27:39
3.3: Dogs, Rats, Elephants and Emotion? 16:06
4.1: Evolution and Emotion I (Introduction) 21:16
4.2: Evolution and Emotion II (Cultural Universality) 20:16
4.3: Evolution and Emotion III (Social Constructivism) 17:47
5.1: Culture and Emotion 36:11
5.2: Gender and Emotion 14:35
5.3: Love and Sex 24:57
6.1: Emotion Behavior I (Laughter) 21:33
6.2: Emotion Behavior II (Crying) 16:42
6.3: Emotion Behavior III (Touch) 18:06
7.1: Psychophysiology I (Introduction) 24:48
7.2: Psychophysiology II (Cardiovascular System) 30:46
7.3: Psychophysiology III (Specificity and Coherence) 17:51
8.1: Emotion and the Brain I (Affective Neuroscience) 18:58
8.2: Emotion and the Brain II (Pleasure and Intensity) 24:37
8.3: Emotion and the Brain III (Emotion Control and Specificity) 23:35
9.1: Self-Conscious Emotions (Introduction) 20:09
9.2: Pride and Embarrassment 25:58
9.3: Shame and Guilt 24:34
10.1: Emotions in the Social World (Introduction) 21:33
10.2: Emotions in a Social World II (Social Emotions) 23:08
10.3: Emotions in a Social World III (Emotions and Relationships) 36:13
11.1: Emotion and Morality (Introduction) 33:19
11.2: Emotion and Morality (The Good) 20:42
11.3: Emotion and Morality III (Psychopathy) 39:24
12.1: Emotion and Cognition I (Introduction) 25:38
12.2: Emotion and Cognition II (Emotional Intelligence) 28:08
12.3: Emotion & Cognition III (Unconscious Emotion) 24:00
13.1: Judgment & Decision Making I (Appraisal) 15:52
13.2: Judgment & Decision Making II (Neuroeconomics & Consumption) 22:25
13.3: Judgment & Decision Making III (Decision & Risk-Taking) 15:52
14.1: Emotion Regulation I (What is Emotion Regulation) 13:43
14.2: Emotion Regulation II (Evidence) 21:41
14.3: Emotion Regulation III (Relationships) 21:38
15.1: Emotion Development I (Infancy) 21:08
15.2: Emotion Development II (Adolescence) 17:25
15.3: Emotion Development III (Aging) 15:31
16.1: Physical Health I (Sleep) 20:33
16.2: Physical Health II (Stress) 17:53
16.3: Physical Health III (Hormones) 16:48
17.1: Emotional Disorders I (Fear and Anxiety) 33:07
17.2: Emotional Disorders II (Depression and Mania) 25:43
17.3: Emotional Disorders III (Psychosis & Personality Disorders) 23:45
18.1: Emotion & Health I (Resilience) 24:24
18.2: Emotions and Health II (Mindfulness) 20:45
18.3: Emotion and Health III (Psychotherapy) 26:20
19.1: Happiness I (What is Happiness) 30:39
19.2: Happiness II (Happiness and Morality) 20:42
19.3: Happiness III (Dark Side of Happiness) 15:22
20.1: Future of Emotion 30:53

Physics for Scientists and Engineers (Fall 2014) by Achilles Speliotopoulos at UCBerkeley

Gayatri Spivak: On Generalism and methods of teaching and academic research

Forum: Lezing Gayatri Spivak - 24-03-15 from Stedelijk Museum on Vimeo.
Gayatri Spivak, University Professor at Columbia University, lectures on Generalism and methods of teaching and academic research.
See more: stedelijk.nl/en/calendar/forum/lecture-gayatri-spivak

2016-03-25

Ancient Philosophy: Epicurus and the Epicurean Tradition by Gregory B. Sadler

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source: Gregory B. Sadler 2015年6月22日/ 上次更新：2015年7月28日
This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This video focuses on Epicurus' works, and discusses his conception of practical reasoning, involving prudential determination of the values of pleasures and pains against each other.
Gregory B. Sadler is the president and co-founder of ReasonIO. If you're interested in tutorial sessions with Dr. Sadler, click here: https://reasonio.wordpress.com/tutori...

The content of this video is provided here as part of ReasonIO's mission of putting philosophy into practice -- making complex philosophical texts and thinkers accessible for students and lifelong learners. If you'd like to make a contribution to help fund Dr. Sadler's ongoing educational projects, you can click here: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr...

Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Practical Reasoning 14:25
Philosophy Core Concepts: Pleasure, Prudence, and Justice 11:11
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Justice 11:58
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Two Sources of Groundless Fears 12:53
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Mental and Bodily Pleasures 16:23
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Moving and Static Pleasures 10:04
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Three Types of Desires 21:03
Philosophy Core Concepts: Epicurus on Friendship 13:44

The invisible motion of still objects - Ran Tivony

source: TED-Ed 2016年3月24日
View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/the-invisib...
Many of the inanimate objects around you probably seem perfectly still. But look deep into the atomic structure of any of them, and you’ll see a world in constant flux — with stretching, contracting, springing, jittering, drifting atoms everywhere. Ran Tivony describes how and why molecular movement occurs and investigates if it might ever stop.
Lesson by Ran Tivony, animation by Zedem Media.

Slavoj Žižek. Markets without Substance. 2003

source: European Graduate School 2016年3月23日
http://www.egs.edu/ Slavoj Žižek, Professor of Philosophy and Psychoanalysis at The European Graduate School / EGS. describes how every product creates its counter agent within our societies. Slavoj Žižek Free public open lecture for the students of the Division of Philosophy, Art & Critical Thought at the European Graduate School EGS, Saas-Fee, Switzerland. 2003.

Slavoj Žižek (b. 1949) is a Slovenian-born philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is a professor of philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS, a senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Global Distinguished Professor of German at New York University, International Director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, and founder and president of the Society for Theoretical Psychoanalysis, Ljubljana. Aside from these appointments, Žižek tirelessly gives lectures around the globe and is often described as “the Elvis of cultural theory”. Although, more seriously, as British critical theorist Terry Eagleton confers, Žižek is the “most formidably brilliant” theorist to have emerged from Europe in decades. Many, in fact, now consider Žižek to be “the most dangerous philosopher in the West.”

Anthropology & Symbols by Nicholas Herriman

Leo Strauss - Hegel's Philosophy of History (1965)

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source: 2015年6月17日

Guy L. Steele Jr.: Four Solutions to a Trivial Problem

source: GoogleTechTalks 2016年1月28日
December 1, 2015
Presented by Guy L. Steele Jr.

ABSTRACT
We present a small but interesting geometrical problem and then examine four different computational approaches to solving it: a "classic sequential solution" and three different approaches that are amenable to parallel implementation, comparing them to highlight various advantages and disadvantages, including total work required and minimum time to solution. All four solutions are illustrated both pictorially and with working code. We argue that certain approaches work better than others if exploitation of parallelism is to be automated. There will also be at least one joke.
About the Speaker: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_L._....

George Musser: "Spooky Action at a Distance" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年2月16日
Over the past few decades, physicists have discovered a phenomenon that operates outside the confines of space and time: nonlocality - the ability of two particles to act in harmony no matter how far apart they may be. Einstein grappled with this oddity and couldn't come to terms with it, describing it as "spooky action at a distance." More recently, the mystery has deepened as other forms of nonlocality have been uncovered. This strange occurrence, which has direct connections to black holes, particle collisions, and even the workings of gravity, holds the potential to undermine our most basic understandings of physical reality. If space isn't what we thought it was, then what is it?

In this talk "Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time--and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything", George Musser sets out to answer that question, offering a provocative exploration of nonlocality and a celebration of the scientists who are trying to explain it. He traces the often contentious debates over nonlocality through major discoveries and disruptions of the twentieth century and shows how scientists faced with the same undisputed experimental evidence develop wildly different explanations for that evidence.

Alenka Zupancic. Nietzsche and Ethics. 2010

source: European Graduate School 2010年12月14日
http://www.egs.edu/ Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian philosopher and author, talking about ethics, Nietzsche, morals, and nihilism. In the lecture Alenka Zupancic discusses the concepts of biopolitics, ontology, Meillassoux, correlationism, in relationship to objectivity, knowledge, the death of God, affect, reason, discourse, focusing on politics, ideology, and culture. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010 Alenka Zupancic.

Edward Said Memorial Conference - Gayatri Spivak: "A Borderless World?"

source: Centre for the Humanities Utrecht University 2013年10月22日
Keynote lecture by Prof. Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: "A Borderless World?" at the Edward Said Memorial Conference, Utrecht, 16 April 2013.

What is this lecture about?
"What institutions of tertiary education in varieties of the metropole now have to think about is that globalization has introduced a kind of accessible contemporaneity to us, and placed us within it, which has not taken away, but rendered obsolete, the established ways of knowing the historical. Modernity/tradition methodologies, colonial/postcolonial methodologies remain appropriate in their own place, but are no longer useful to understand this new situation, which seems to lend itself more easily to a quantified, statisticalized, and, in a less rigorous way, simply arithmeticalized approach, democracy computed as supervised safe elections, epistemic claims without reality checks, going hand in hand with a collection of "global" curiosities as evidence.

Let us rather ask ourselves how we must change in response to this challenge to knowing, not how we can add more information and money to the spectacular alternative streams at the edges of disciplines. How can the mainstream of disciplines be rearranged so that we and our students learn to think differently, rather than separate rigorous history and method from the glamour of easy globality. Such challenges have come in history from time to time and intellectual historians as well as students of the history of consciousness have told us after the fact how these changes happened. To that extent, we too must give ourselves over to what we call the future anterior, what will have happened in spite of our best efforts. But at the university, we must also make these efforts — once again, to change ourselves, rather than simply to acquire more substantive knowledge."

Edward Said Memorial Conference was organised by the Centre for the Humanities at Utrecht University as one of the Treaty of Utrecht commemoration events on 15-17 April 2013. More information available at: http://cfhutrecht2013.com/.

2016-03-24

Claude Lévi-Strauss - In Our Time BBC Radio 4

source: Kevin M 2014年10月4日
From the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Robert Pippin (Cornell U)- After the Beautiful Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictoral Modernism

source; 2014年11月16日

Alenka Zupancic. Nietzsche and the Event. 2010.

source: European Graduate School 2010年12月14日
http://www.egs.edu/ Alenka Zupancic, Slovenian philosopher and author, talking about the Event, Nietzsche, Badiou, and the Real. In the lecture Alenka Zupancic discusses the concepts of art, madness, the Two, truth, in relationship to love, time, the edge, life, Lacan, Hamlet, focusing on manifestos, knowledge, and subjectivity. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzerland Europe 2010 Alenka Zupancic.

William Oliver: "Quantum Engineering of Superconducting Qubits"

source: GoogleTechTalks 2016年2月9日
William Oliver visited the Google LA Quantum AI Lab on August 13, 2015.
Abstract:
Superconducting qubits are coherent artificial atoms assembled from electrical circuit elements. Their lithographic scalability, compatibility with microwave control, and operability at nanosecond time scales all converge to make the superconducting qubit a highly attractive candidate for the constituent logical elements of a quantum information processor. Over the past decade, spectacular improvement in the manufacturing and control of these devices has moved superconducting qubits from the realm of scientific curiosity to the threshold of technological reality. In this talk, we review this progress and present aspects of our work related to the quantum systems engineering of high-coherence devices and high-fidelity control. For more information: [1] J. Bylander, et al., Nature Physics 7, 565 (2011) [2] W.D. Oliver & P.B. Welander, MRS Bulletin 38, 816 (2013)

Bio:
William D. Oliver is a Senior Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in the Quantum Information and Integrated Nanosystems Group and a Professor of the Practice in the MIT Physics Department. He provides programmatic and technical leadership for programs related to the development of quantum and classical high-performance computing technologies. His interests include the materials growth, fabrication, design, and measurement of superconducting qubits, as well as the development of cryogenic packaging and control electronics involving cryogenic CMOS and single-flux quantum digital logic.
Prior to joining MIT & Lincoln Laboratory in 2003, Will was a graduate research associate with Prof. Yoshihisa Yamamoto at Stanford University investigating quantum optical phenomena and entanglement of electrons in two-dimensional electron gas systems. He previously spent two years at the MIT Media Laboratory developing an interactive computer music installation called the Singing Tree as part of Prof. Tod Machover’s Brain Opera.
Will has published 52 journal articles and 7 book chapters, is an active seminar lecturer, and is inventor or co-inventor on two patents. He serves on the US Committee for Superconducting Electronics; is an Applied Superconductivity Conference (ASC) Board Member; and is a member of the American Physical Society, IEEE, Sigma Xi, Phi Beta Kappa, and Tau Beta Pi. In 2013, he was a JSPS visiting researcher at the University of Tokyo.
Will received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the Stanford University in 2003, the SM in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 1997, and a BS in Electrical Engineering and BA in Japanese from the University of Rochester (NY) in 1995.

Janice Kaplan: "The Gratitude Diaries" | Talks at Google

source: Talks at Google 2016年2月12日
We were lucky to be joined in London by Janice Kaplan, who talked about her journey of gratitude, and how to find the positives in life when you might be having a difficult day.

About the book:
It's easy to look at others and think how lucky they are, and sometimes finding the positives in our own lives can be hard. Success is often measured in tangible ways, and as we strive to achieve more and get more, we forget that it's often the simple things that can bring us the most joy. After reading about how expressing gratitude for the little things can be incredibly powerful and affect our lives in profound ways, Janice Kaplan decided to spend a year living gratefully and find out whether being grateful really does offer a new path to happiness.
Her experiences of living gratefully will be anchored by intriguing research findings, as well as in-depth interviews with real people, those in public life, and neuroscientists and experts in the field, including Dr Martin Seligman and Dr Robert Emmons, the world's leading scientific expert on gratitude.
Recounted with warmth and humour, this story-filled memoir will inspire readers to reflect on the true meaning of gratitude, and provide them with a structure and context for making significant changes in every aspect of their lives. For not only can gratitude make you more honest, courageous and generous; research has shown that it can also improve overall health and reduce stress and depression.
About Janice ( @janicekaplan2 ) -
Janice Kaplan graduated from Yale University and won Yale's Murray Fellowship for writing. She is best-known as Editor-in-Chief of Parade. Her own cover stories gain worldwide attention including interviews with stars from Matt Damon to President Barack Obama. She is the author of twelve books, including I'll See You Again which spent six weeks in the New York Times bestseller list.
Find out more about Janice's book on Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/books/d...

Michael Hardt. The Common Wealth in a Just World. 2010 (1-11)

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source: European Graduate School 2010年5月21日
http://www.egs.edu/ Michael Hardt speaking about about the common wealth, the duality of the common ground and the creative commons, capitalism, the need for a new political reality, the new world order and its terms. Michael Hardt lecturing about a process of transformation, the rise of a network power, the role of information, association and affects, property and labor conditions, the definition of time, the working day, precarious work, and the modes of affection in a lecture entitled "The Common Wealth / Was wir in einer gerechteren Welt gemeinsam besitzen können" at the Schaubühne Berlin. A Streitgespräch led by journalist Carolin Emcke at the Schaubühne in Berlin, Germany, March 21, 2010. Michael Hardt.

Michael Hardt. Michael Hardt, born 1960 is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. Michael Hardt's recent writings deal primarily with the political, legal, economic, and social aspects of globalization. Perhaps his most famous work is Empire, a book about the current global power structure, written with Antonio Negri. The sequel to Empire, called Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, describes the possible democratic alternatives to that structure, was released in August, 2004, and details the idea of the multitude (which Michael Hardt and Negri initially elaborated in Empire) as the potential site of a global democratic movement. Many of Michael Hardts seminars focus on the work of important figures in the history of critical theory and political theory, such as Marx, Jefferson, Gramsci, Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari.
Sometimes referred to as the "Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century", Empire proposes that the forces of current class oppression, namely - corporate globalization and commodification of services (or "production of affects") have the potential to fuel social change of unprecedented dimensions.
Born in Washington DC, Michael Hardt attended Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland. He studied engineering at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania from 1978 to 1983. In college during the 1970s energy crisis, Michael Hardt began to take an interest in alternative energy sources. Talking about his college politics, Michael Hardt said, "I thought that doing alternative energy engineering for third world countries would be a way of doing politics that would get out of all this campus political posing that I hated."