Tag: spinoza
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Kant I? – Does improvising improve self-esteem?
In this episode, composer Casper Hernández Cordes draws on his own experiences with improvisation and as a teacher to reflect on the relation between open artistic practices and selfhood.
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Music as an ecosystem?
What happens if we create and experience music as a kind of ecosystem? Improvising on the piano, using what I would call intuitive intelligence, I am developing a method for using my body, hands, arms, and mind to create a kind of sound ecosystem. This is how this improvisation came into existence: Next step is…
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Is Spinoza an analogist, naturalist or … animist? – A pocket memo…
As a part of my ‘pocket research design 2‘, I am reading Descola’s Beyond Nature and Culture (see my selective pocket summary in progress here). While reading, ideas for my coming synthesis/pocket essay are beginning to condensate in my brain. Descola is a structuralist, (see my discussion here) and in order to take advantage of…
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Reading Descola – a doubtful pitstop…. (memo)
As I have promised (myself) in my second pocket research design, I am reading French Anthropologist Philippe Descola’s book “Beyond Nature and Culture”, while writing a ‘selective pocket summary’ here. And while reading: thinking… I am attacking Descola’s mammoth work from various angles at the time. I am reading it as a pdf, in English…
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Will knowing nature make us better humans? Pocket research design 1
This is a ‘pocket research design’, where I outline the question whether knowing nature will make humans treat each other and our surroundings better.
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Will knowing nature make us better humans? Can A deeper Philosophy of Biomimicry give us the answer?
In my search for an answer to the question if humans will be better at connecting with eachother if they become better at connecting with their environments, I’ve read Australian professor of environmental philosohy Freya Mathews article “Towards a Deeper Philosophy of Biomimicry”. This blogpost is my short resume of the article.
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Elfenbenhård udredning I: Handlingsvaluta som en pladsholder der skal afstå pladsen
Det første materiale jeg vil filtrere, er det fænomen, jeg har kaldt handlingsvaluta. For at kunne analysere, hvad der sker, når børn løber rundt i en skolegård mellem hinanden, og interagerer på en række forskellige måder, har jeg fundet det nødvendigt at smede et nyt begreb. Jeg har af forskellige grunde, som jeg skal uddybe…
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