lectures/ideas: 12/16/16

2016-12-16

Does Consciousness Exist? By William James

source: Philosophical Overdose 2016年11月16日
This essay is from William James's "Essays in Radical Empiricism". It's a LibriVox recording, read by D.E. Wittkower. In this essay, James argues for a kind of neutral monism.

Quantum Field Theory (2009, U of Cambridge) by David Tong

Christina Hendricks: Hobbes, Leviathan (lecture 2, 28/11/2014)

source: Arts One Open 2014年11月28日
This is the second lecture on Hobbes' Leviathan for Fall 2014 in Arts One at the University of British Columbia. The first can be found here: http://youtu.be/DJsWicuyjlk?list=UUzY...
In this lecture, Christina Hendricks (http://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca/chris...) discusses Hobbes' view of free will, the idea of the commonwealth as an artificial person, why the state of nature would be a state of war, and the powers and limits of the sovereign.
License for this video: CC-BY-NC 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)
Information on Arts One and Arts One Open:
http://artsone.arts.ubc.ca
http://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca

Robert Crawford: Hobbes, Leviathan (28/10/2013)

source: Arts One Open 2013年10月28日
Lecture by Robert Crawford for the "Remake/Remodel" theme. For more, see http://artsone-digital.arts.ubc.ca/th....

Robert Crawford: Hobbes, Leviathan: "In the midst of life we are in death" (04/11/2014)

source: Arts One Open 2014年11月4日
This is a lecture by Robert Crawford for Arts One at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada). In this lecture Crawford gives some of the background information useful to understanding the texts (why was Hobbes so upset about Aristotle and "the schools"? Why was he so worried about witchcraft and ghosts?). He also discusses Hobbes views on God and religion as well as his political views.
License for this video: CC-BY-NC 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
More information on Arts One can be found at the main website: http://artsone.arts.ubc.ca
And also on the Arts One Open website, where we post lectures, podcasts, and student blog posts: http://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca

Hubertus von Amelunxen & Adel Abdessemed. Réponds, sable!. 2016

source: European Graduate School Video Lectures 2016年12月9日
http://www.egs.edu Hubertus von Amelunxen & Adel Abdessemed, Professor of Philosophy at The European Graduate School / EGS. Saas Fee/Switzerland. June 15th 2016.
Adel Abdessemed is a French-Algerian artist. He embraces a wide variety of media, and his work includes installations, videos, photography, sculptures, drawings, and books. His oeuvre is characterised by brutal imagery that attempts to depict the inherent violence of the contemporary world. His works often deal with the themes of war, violence, and religion.
Abdessemed was born in Constantine, Algeria where he attended the Fine Arts School in Batna and the École Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. In 1992, while he was still a student, a military coup occurred in his country; more than 100,000 people lost their lives in the subsequent violence. This is why Abdessemed says: “The violence that I talk about, I experienced it very directly. To this day, the wounds stay open, and the questions remain unanswered: the arson attacks, the mass rapes, the unpunished murders.” After the director of his school, Ahmed Assalah, and his son were murdered on the school premises, Adel Abdessemed emigrated to France and enrolled the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Lyon. At this school, his work drew the attention of the Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. In 2000, he obtained a residency at PS1 in New York, and he witnessed the terrorist attacks on the USA in 2001. After the end of his residency, he moved to a Berlin for a short time and then to Paris just before the street riots of 2005. All these events feature prominently in his works.

Hubertus von Amelunxen is a theorist, curator, and artist. He holds the Walter Benjamin Chair at The European Graduate School / EGS, where he teaches Media Philosophy and Cultural Studies. He was born on December 29, 1958, in a town called Bad Hindelang in Bavaria, Germany. He studied Romance Languages and Literature (French, Spanish), German, and Art History in Marburg (Philipps-Universität) and Paris (École Normale Supérieure), and finished his PhD at the University of Mannheim with a thesis on nineteenth century French literature (Allegory and Photography). Professor von Amelunxen was a Founding Director and Professor at the International School for New Media in Lübeck (Germany). Additionally, he is a Senior Visiting Curator for Photography and New Media at the Canadian Center for Architecture in Montreal (Canada).
Hubertus von Amelunxen has curated many international exhibitions since 1989, among them "Photography after Photography" (which toured in Europe and the USA in 1995 and 1996), "Les lieux du Non-Lieu", Munich (1997); "Le territoire en deuil", Arles (1998); "Tomorrow For Ever – Photographie als Ruine", Krems, Duisburg (1999/2000).
In both his writing and his curatorial practice, Hubertus von Amelunxen invites us to reconsider the medium and the concept of photography in the face of current technological changes, both its artistic translation and its social utilisation. He formulates the conflict between the first photograph, or the first technically generated image, and the 'new media' as a starting point for this redefinition. According to him, the digitization of the photographic image opened up new possibilities for montage and manipulation. At the same time, this also opened a space to create the analogy between the computer screen and psychic space: in it, the residues of daily perception are collected and linked by the individual, the shocks of the everyday are absorbed into the medium, and their repetition on screen can be seen as a process of continual analytical transference work. On another level, this new procedure makes it possible to atomise and fragment patterns of identity. According to Hubertus von Amelunxen, the digital imaging techniques have literally turned off the photographic model of representation. With this altered ontology of the photographic image, he notices the limitations of the language we use to analyze photographs. We are still naming something that actually no longer exists, and von Amelunxen underlines the necessity for a new grammar, a new syntax, and a new logic of elements within mutating historical circumstances.

Supersymmetry and Extra Dimensions (2006, U of Cambridge) by Fernando Quevedo

Rich Blint - “The Devil Finds Work: James Baldwin on American Cinema”

source: Yale University 2016年11月23日
Rich Blint is the 2016–2017 Scholar-in-Residence in the MFA Program in Performance and Performance Studies in the Department of Humanities and Media Studies at Pratt Institute. His teaching and research interests include American, African American, and Anglophone Caribbean literature and culture; the life and work of James Baldwin; racial visuality and US popular culture; post-colonialism and diaspora; as well as urban form and politics in the context of the global. He is coeditor of a special issue of African American Review on James Baldwin (Winter 2013); contributing editor of The James Baldwin Review; guest critic of the October 2016 issue of the Brooklyn Rail, which focuses on James Baldwin; and is completing the introduction for an e-book of selections from Baldwin’s first collection of essays, Notes of a Native Son, and poems from Jimmy’s Blues. He is presently at work on his book project, “Trembling on the Edge of Confession: James Baldwin and National Innocence in Modern American Culture.” Blint has held faculty, research, and administrative appointments at Columbia University, Barnard College, Hunter College, and the Murphy Institute at the Graduate and University Center, CUNY; and has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundations.

Hospitality and hostility: the role of established refugees in a crisis - UCL Lunch Hour Lecture

source: UCL Lunch Hour Lectures 2016年11月4日
Speaker: Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, UCL Geography, Tuesday 1st November 2016 #ucllhl
Bring your lunch and your curiosity! UCL Lunch Hour Lectures, Tuesdays and Thursdays, Darwin Lecture Theatre, 1.15 - 1.55pm (term time)
It is often assumed that refugees passively wait to receive assistance provided by the UN, host states and international organisations, but established refugees are also often active providers of assistance – they share food, shelter and increasingly cramped spaces with newly displaced people. Dr Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh will examine the nature and implications of what she calls ‘refugee-refugee humanitarianism’.
Free to attend, live stream or watch online
More info : http://events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl
Join the conversation on Twitter at #UCLLHL

David Netto: “Designing Interiors (The Part They Forgot to Tell You About)”

source: Harvard GSD 2016年11月10日
Architecture, landscape, urbanism . . . we are at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, which takes an enlightened and comprehensive view of “designed” environments and how they interrelate. But—David Netto GSD ’97 asks—how many of you have ever been taught how to make a furniture plan? How to light a room? The secrets of proportion and texture, and the breaking of rules in animating an interior? These are questions Netto has never found a satisfactory answer to in school—any school; one only learns about them from experience in the workplace. The practical truth is that how a project is perceived is key to how it is received—and essential to whether or not it gets published, written about, and given a fair trial after its transition from an abstract hypothetical to real life.
Netto has worked as an interior designer for decades and has written about architecture and design history for just as long. He professes to have learned as much from writing about the work of others as from formal education in design. His latest book is about the French designer François Catroux, who since 1968 has innovated and excelled in a career of nearly fifty years with no formal design education whatsoever (he credits Philip Johnson as a formative influence and is presently working with Diller Scofidio & Renfro on an apartment in New York). In the course of his talk, Netto will address the importance of interiors in the success of architecture and his observations on how this gets accomplished, based on what he has learned in his work as a design journalist.

Bina Agarwal--Institutions, Property and Gender Inequality: It's Time to Change the Rules!

source: The New School 2016年10月28日
The Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism is sponsored by the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA | http://www.economicpolicyresearch.org). Institutions embody the “rules of the game in a society,” according to Nobel Laureate Douglas North. These human-devised constraints shape people’s interactions—political, social and economic—and establish a stable social structure. But what if the rules are deeply unequal, devised largely by the powerful? And is stability which entrenches inequality even desirable?
Noted economist Bina Agarwal’s lecture demonstrates how women face deep inequalities in rules and norms, which, in turn, create severe inequalities in their access to both private and public property. Based on her research, she challenges standard economic analysis to show how these inequalities undermine both economic efficiency and social justice. She also outlines pathways for change, such as enhancing women’s bargaining power in multiple arenas: the family, community, markets, and state.
Department of Economics | http://www.newschool.edu/nssr/economics
Agarwal is an award-winning author whose most recent three volume compendium, “Gender Challenges,” unravels the nature of gender inequality in multiple institutions: those governing agriculture, property, and the environment. She is orofessor of development economics and environment at the University of Manchester, UK. Prior to this, she was director and professor of economics at the Institute of Economic Growth at Delhi University.
THE NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH | http://newschool.edu/nssr
The Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture on the Future of Capitalism:
The Heilbroner lecture honors the work of Robert Heilbroner, who was both a student and a professor in the economics department of The New School for Social Research. This event is dedicated to understanding questions of economic justice and how the profit-seeking activities of private firms might also serve broader social goals. To use Heilbroner’s words, “capitalism’s uniqueness in history lies in its continuously self-generated change, but it is this very dynamism that is the system’s chief enemy.”
THE NEW SCHOOL | http://newschool.edu
Location: Wolff Conference Room, Albert and Vera List Academic Center
Tuesday, October 25, 2016 at 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Modern Drafting and the Criminal Law - Does Codification Work?

source: SchAdvStudy 2016年11月23日
03-11-2016 Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
http://www.sas.ac.uk
Institute: http://ials.sas.ac.uk/
Modern Drafting and the Criminal Law - Does Codification Work?
Rt Hon Justice Mark Weinberg
(Court Appeal, Supreme Court of Victoria, Australia)
Under the Australian Federal system, just as in the United States, criminal law is primarily a matter for the States, rather than the Commonwealth. Historically, Australian criminal law derived primarily from the common law of England, with some relatively modest statutory modification. In recent years, however, there has been pressure from various quarters to codify the criminal law in all its aspects, substantive, procedural and evidentiary. The process of codification is well under way.
In theory codifying the criminal law should render it more coherent, clearer, and easier to access. Yet, the criminal law in Australia continues to be beset by delay, unduly long trials, and a high rate of successful appeals. The question is, can codification of this branch of the law ever really be made to work effectively?
IALS Lunchtime Seminar

Susie Dent: "Dent's Modern Tribes: The Secret Languages of Britain" | Ta...

source: Talks at Google 2016年11月15日
We were delighted to welcome to Google, from Countdown’s Dictionary Corner, author and columnist Susie Dent. Susie’s new book delves into the linguistic minefields that populate the British language, delving into the slang and phrases that each of its many tribes use.
Susie Dent has spent years interviewing hundreds of professionals, hobbyists and enthusiasts; the result is an idiosyncratic phrasebook like no other. From the Freemason's handshake to the publican's banter, Dent's Modern Tribes takes us on a whirlwind tour of Britain, revealing its secret languages and finding out in the process what really makes us tick.

About the Book
Have you ever wondered why football managers all speak the same way, what a cabbie calls the Houses of Parliament, or how ticket inspectors discreetly request back-up? We are surrounded by hundreds of tribes, each speaking their own distinct 'slanguage' of colourful words, jokes and phrases, honed through years of conversations on the battlefield, in A&E, backstage, or at ten-thousand feet in the air. Here, at last, is a witty guide through the linguistic minefields that confront us all.
Susie Dent has spent years interviewing hundreds of professionals, hobbyists and enthusiasts; the result is an idiosyncratic phrasebook like no other. From the Freemason's handshake to the publican's banter, Dent's Modern Tribes takes us on a whirlwind tour of Britain, revealing its secret languages and finding out in the process what really makes us tick.

About Susie Dent
Susie Dent is the resident word expert in Dictionary Corner on C4's Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown. She comments regularly on TV and radio on words in the news, and has contributed to Woman's Hour, 15 x 15, Word of Mouth, More or Less, Today, BBC Breakfast, and R4's Wordaholics. Susie is the author of several books, and has weekly columns in both the Radio Times and the website Mental Floss.
Follow her on Twitter @susie_dent

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