86. World
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
- Episode 86. World
Give us a listen, and we’ll give you the world! In Episode 86 of Overthink, Ellie and David ask: what does it mean to live in a world? From animal spirit masters in Labrador to the foundations of climate science, they discuss why the concept of "world" is so contentious, and even at the brink of collapse. They navigate our entangled concepts of nature, culture, and the idyllic nurturing earth through the work of Hannah Arendt and Arturo Escobar. Is the world of animals the same as our own? And, what could it mean to imagine a world where many worlds fit? In times of deep planetary transformation, philosophizing our place in this world has never been more important.
This episode was produced by Emilio Esquivel Marquez and Aaron Morgan as part of their Summer Undergraduate Research Program at Pomona College.
Overthink is a philosophy podcast hosted by your favorite new professors, Ellie Anderson (Pomona College) and David Peña-Guzmán (San Francisco State University). Check out our episodes for deep dives into concepts such as existential anxiety, empathy, and gaslighting.
Works Discussed
Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition and The Origins of Totalitarianism
Mario Blaser, “Doing and undoing Caribou/Atiku”
Dipesh Chakrabarty, “Planetary Humanities”
Déborah Danowski and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, The Ends of the World
Arturo Escobar, Pluriversal Politics
Martin Heidegger, Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics
Travis Holloway, How to Live at the End of the World
Bruno Latour, Facing Gaia
Timothy Morton, Hyperobjects
Conservation International, Mother Nature (2015)
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Interesting, as always. I think the point that we are embodied in the world is often taken advantage of by power by restricting our possibilities in our community and world. Thanks to your students!
When talking about climate change if one is to act one has to accept that there is one world with specific geophysical, chemical, and biological properties. The idea that there is no normative background is false - these properties have not changed; it is just that human society has evolved with its own historical dialectic in which nature has no inherent value unless it is something of use; people in society cannot perceive nature in and of itself. But nature will manifest according to pre-determined processes, manifestation points, etc. and it is up to our society to perceive these processes and manifestation points and not force a change that will be catastrophic.
Anyway I enjoyed the discussion but don't know that I would agree with the end. thanks
This is a well-organized talk about the many crises we face.
"Swiftly arose and spread around me the peace and knowledge that
pass all the argument of the earth,
And I know that the hand of God is the promise of my own,
And I know that the spirit of God is the brother of my own,
And that all the men ever born are also my brothers, and the
women my sisters and lovers,
And that a kelson of the creation is love,
And limitless are leaves stiff or drooping in the fields,
And brown ants in the little wells beneath them,
And mossy scabs of the worm fence, heap'd stones, elder, mullein
and poke-weed."
- Walt Whitman, from his Section 5 of his =Song of Myself=
Thanks philosophers!
One more, if you like:
"Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own;
Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind,
And, even with something of a Mother's mind,
And no unworthy aim,
The homely Nurse doth all she can
To make her Foster-child, her Inmate Man,
Forget the glories he hath known,
And that imperial palace whence he came."
- William Wordsworth, from "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood"
Good Session+ }° 🥭