Margaret Atwood on Climate Change: Anti-Science Can Only Be Surmounted by Economics

source: Big Think   2016年12月16日
Only two things will change the minds of science skeptics: appeals to their ego, or their wallets. Atwood's latest book is "Hag-Seed" (https://goo.gl/zCzbFj).
Read more at BigThink.com: http://bigthink.com/videos/margaret-a...

Transcript - If you look at the history of what happened to Darwin when he published, what would you call that? Yes he was hugely attacked at the time. And it's often a case of people do not want to give up their cherished beliefs, especially cherished beliefs that they find comforting. So it's no good for Richard Dawkins to say let us just stand on the bold bear promontory of truth and acknowledge the basically nothingness of ourselves. People don't find that cozy so they will go around the block not to do that. And that's very understandable and human. And religious thinking, you know, the idea that there's somebody bigger than you out there who might be helpful to you if certain rules are observed, that goes back so far. We probably have an epigene or something or a cluster of epigenes for that and you see it a lot in small children that there is a monster under the bed and you can't tell them there isn't. They don't find that reassuring. What you can tell them is yes there is a monster under that bed but as long as I put this cabbage right in this spot it can't come out.
So yes anti-science. When science is telling you something that you really find very inconvenient, and that is the history of global warming and the changes that we are certainly already seen around us. First of all it was denial. It could not be happening. Now there's grudging admission as things flood and droughts kick in and food supplies drop and the sea level rises and the glaciers melt big time. I have seen that; been there. You can't deny that it's happening but you then have to pretend that it's nothing to do with us. So therefore nothing so we don't have to change our behavior. That's the thinking around that. And that can get very entrenched until people see that by trying to solve the problem jobs can be created and money can be made. And that will be the real tipping point in public consciousness in this country. Read Full Transcript Here: https://goo.gl/B0oNAJ.

Arts One (09/2014-04/2015): "Repetition Compulsion" (U of British Columbia)

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source: Arts One Open    2014年9月29日

Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad 1:41:36
Plato's Republic, Politics and Ethics 1:38:45
Shakespeare, The Tempest: "Upstart Crew" 1:39:13
Hobbes, Leviathan: "In the midst of life we are in death" 1:31:45
Hobbes, Leviathan (lecture 2, 2014) 1:35:17
Rousseau, A Discourse on Inequality 1:40:45
Michel-Rolph Trouillot, Silencing the Past 1:43:06
Ian Hacking, Rewriting the Soul 1:38:21
Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its Discontents 1:35:40
Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now (lecture) 41:44
Conrad, Heart of Darkness (March 2015) 1:02:42
Beauvoir, The Second Sex, and Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper 1:43:03
Arthur Miller, The Crucible 1:36:48
McNeilly Watchmen Lecture March 2015 1:33:32

Jill Fellows: Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad (29/09/2014)

source: Arts One Open    2014年9月29日
Lecture by Jill Fellows for the "Repetition Compulsion" theme. For Arts One at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Arts One main website: http://artsone.arts.ubc.ca
Arts One Open website, with all our lecture recordings and student/professor blog posts: http://artsone-open.arts.ubc.ca

Margaret Atwood – The Good, The Bad, and The Stupid – Think Again Podcas...

source: Big Think      2016年10月30日
Today's guest is novelist, essayist, poet, and as of late, comic-book writer Margaret Atwood. She’s also got some really funny mini-comics about bad interviews, so Jason tries extra-hard to bring his a-game here. She’s the Booker prize winning author of The Blind Assassin, Oryx & Crake, The Handmaid’s Tale, and around 40 other beloved books. Her latest, Hag-Seed, is a total and delightfully wicked reimagining of Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
In this episode Margaret talks with Jason about genomes in the cloud, Bob Dylan's Nobel prize, the elusiveness of dead authors, and why technology's a three-edged sword.
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Neelima Talwar: Understanding Creativity and Creative Writing (IIT Bombay)

# playlist of the 41 videos (click the up-left corner of the video)

source: nptelhrd    2015年6月11日
Humanities - Understanding Creativity and Creative Writing by Prof. Neelima Talwar, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Bombay. For more details on NPTEL visit http://nptel.ac.in

Mod-01 Lec-01 Overview 23:38
Mod-01 Lec-02 In Conversation with Richard Schechner 31:42
Mod-01 Lec-03 Multilingual Plurality: Our Environment 21:38
Mod-01 Lec-04 Multilingual Plurality: Our Environment -Part II 26:35
Mod-01 Lec-05 Interplay of Languages and Forms of Writing 45:25
Mod-01 Lec-06 Interplay of Languages and Forms of Writing -Part II 36:21
Mod-01 Lec-07 Creativity and Culture's 33:46
Mod-01 Lec-08 Notion of Play and The Three Domain Activities 54:01
Mod-01 Lec-09 Theory of Enjoyment: Critical Assessment 34:43
Mod-01 Lec-10 Divergences and Convergences 19:21
Mod-01 Lec-11 Divergences and Convergences -Part II 25:30
Mod-01 Lec-12 Creative and Cultural Spaces for Students 44:14
Mod-01 Lec-13 Being and Doing: Writing as Performance 41:01
Mod-02 Lec-14 Writers and Writing: The Dialogic Process 53:09
Mod-02 Lec-15 Creativity, Writing, Creative Writing: Recent Viewpoints 43:05
Mod-02 Lec-16 Issues Related to the Teaching of Creative Writing 41:16
Mod-02 Lec-17 Writers on Writing: Albert Camus 46:57
Mod-02 Lec-18 Critical Reading of Great Writers: Albert Camus 46:50
Mod-02 Lec-19 Critical Reading of Important Writers: Margaret Atwood 40:12
Mod-02 Lec-20 Reading and Writing 53:48
Mod-02 Lec-21 Indian Writing: Writers/Narrators 49:39
Mod-02 Lec-22 Contemporary Indian Writers: The Search for Creativity (I) 53:45
Mod-02 Lec-23 Contemporary Indian Writers: The Search for Creativity (II) 51:06
Mod-02 Lec-24 Mosaic Patterns: Module 2 48:35
Mod-03 Lec-25 Introduction to Drama 33:57
Mod-03 Lec-26 Performance and Script Writing: Mime 40:15
Mod-03 Lec-27 Western Classical Theory 55:52
Mod-03 Lec-28 Student Response (I) 36:07
Mod-03 Lec-29 Indian Drama: Classical Theory and Practice 52:15
Mod-03 Lec-30 Interacting Continuum: Classical, Folk and Modern Drama 54:39
Mod-03 Lec-31 From The Perspective of Playwriting: Monologue 49:40
Mod-03 Lec-32 From The Playwright\'s Perspective 43:05
Mod-03 Lec-33 From The Playwright's Perspective -Part II 48:20
Mod-03 Lec-34 From The Perspective of Playwriting: Anton Chekhov 52:10
Mod-03 Lec-35 Drama in the Classroom: Experience and Writing 55:24
Mod-03 Lec-36 Student Response (II) 43:48
Mod-03 Lec-37 Performative Reading of the Cherry Orchard 36:19
Mod-04 Lec-38 Short Story as a Genre 47:02
Mod-04 Lec-39 Short Stories by Indian Women Writers 38:20
Mod-04 Lec-40 Modern Western Short Story 33:38
Mod-04 Lec-41 Varieties of Writing Processes 52:52

Margaret Atwood on Faith and Reason (with Bill Moyers on PBS)

source: PBS    2006-07-21

On Bill Moyers on Faith & Reason, airing Friday, July 28 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings), writers Margaret Atwood and Martin Amis show how the imagination of the creative mind can help cross the boundaries between faith and reason and to see the best and worst of human possibilities. Atwood's most famous novel, The Handmaid's Tale, depicts a democracy transformed into a theocracy of God-quoting true believers who strip women of their rights. Bill Moyers explores how these two confessed agnostics come to grips with a world immersed in belief.

For more of the interviews, and a chance to share what *you* find important on matters of Faith & Reason, visit the program's website (www.pbs.org/moyers) and watch the broadcasts on PBS.

For the complete interview and more of Atwood's viewpoints on faith, reason, science, religion, and some other relevant issues:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/faithandreason/watch_atwood.html

source: aluckypunk



about Margaret Atwood:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Atwood