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Heads up for a philosophy event—Thinking Out Loud
Heads up for a philosophy event—Thinking Out Loud
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Length:
5 minutes
Released:
Apr 9, 2018
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Podcast episode
Description
Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society aims to bring a leading international thinker to Western Sydney University annually to present a series of public lectures. This year Rosi Braidotti will present The Human in the Age of Technology and Climate Change. The idea of ‘human’ is undergoing rapid change. Some have termed this the age of the ‘post-human’, and it might appear a moment of great promise and liberation. Yet an underside of injustice and exclusion stubbornly remains. Rosi Braidotti is optimistic.
Released:
Apr 9, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (100)
Proof and beauty: Mathematicians routinely refer to complex proofs in aesthetic terms, citing their 'elegance' or 'beauty'. This has partly to do with the social aspect of such proofs—far from being a hermetic or exclusively cerebral practice, mathematics has never strayed by Philosopher's Zone