As a one-time theoretical physicist, I find this quote from Gosden to be
out-dated, overly reductive, and incorrect, at least as far as the most
thoughtful scientists go.
Scientific understanding doesn’t “derive from abstraction,” but rather the
other way round. It doesn’t separate humans
On 08/12/2021 18:02, Joseph Rabie wrote:
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> I am really wary of terms like magic, beyond seeing them as a poetic
> metaphors (helpful & useful, as such) for things that escape us, or
> transcend us, or that are incomprehensible to us, even though they
> are clearly there (consciousness, for
On 08/12/2021 18:13, Gary Hall wrote:
> I'm really wary of terms like synthesis.
A term with many definitions/connotations, which one gives you caution?
Taking a look in OED's arrangement of possible meanings what comes
closest to what I had in mind is 6b:
"A body of things put together; a
I agree that now, any significant work has to deal with humanity's
relations to the environment. And as somebody who looks to art, cosmology
and science as the triple way to deal, Chris Godsen's book on the history
of magic sounds intriguing (see MP's post). But as far as I've gotten with
David
I'm really wary of terms like synthesis.
Gary
On 08/12/2021 17:31, mp wrote:
It's titled 'The History of Magic: From Alchemy to Witchcraft, from the
Ice Age to the Present' (2020) and he sets out to bring together the
triple helix in a vision that incorporates elements of the inter-species
> Le 8 déc. 2021 à 18:31, mp a écrit :
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> "...We will continue to use science to understand and change the world.
> But magic has an older sibling’s capacity to calm the energies of
> science and its technologies, allowing us to think about the ends to
> which scientific discoveries can be
Hi Felix,
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. I've been enjoying listening to various
podcasts and interviews with Wengrow but I haven't got around to the book
yet. LSE have had a seminar series recently on Graeber's work which is
worth checking out. The final seminar is this week -
Thanks for this...
On 06/12/2021 11:28, Felix Stalder wrote:
> While the book is great, it has a glaring hole in it. What is almost
> entirely missing is the discussion of how this "carnival parade" of
> social forms structured the relation to the environment, or, more
> generally, how they were
