lectures/ideas: 03/29/16

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.

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