Tag: Academia
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The Role of Culture in a Sustainable Society, seminar in Helsinki, September 2015
“Culture and art provide our society with creativity, critical thinking, empathy, confidence, risk tolerance and mutual respect. We believe that working with culture and art and through the cultural meeting, we create an essential part of the foundation for the Nordic region and societies to become sustainable” – Per Voetmann, director, Nordic Culture Point Programme…
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Building sound academia. What actually happened in Helsinki?
Are human beings more than merely brains attached to a chunk of flesh&bones, and does it make sense to imagine a modality of human interaction, we could call corporeal reflection? Workshops in nonverbal interaction for scholars at a wordy conference in Helsinki.
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Organisation’s lethal selfpreservation
Originally posted on Larval Subjects .: For the last couple of days, I’ve found my thoughts haunted by McKenzie Wark’s brilliant interview over at Occupy Times. Apart from Wark’s provocative claim that politics doesn’t exist– though perhaps it could come to exist, in a sense analogous to how Meillassoux talk of a “virtual god”? –this…
Building Sound Collectives 