A shot from the pulpit – watch guest lecturer Rosi Braidotti from Utrecht University answering the question why matter matters
Monatsarchiv für February 2013
Haunted by specters – watch guest lecturer Stefan Herbrechter from Coventry University explaining why he distrusts matter
Early modern time foldings – guest lecturer Michael Kempe, Director of the Leibniz Research Center and the Leibniz-Archive in Hannover, explains why Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz’ alternative conceptualizations of time are still inspiring today
Time and the other – guest lecturer Antje Flüchter from the University of Heidelberg talks about modern Western chronocentrism and why India was thought to be non-contemporary to the contemporary Western norm
Whom the bell tolls – listen to what postdoctoral scholar Michelle Bastian from the University of Edinburgh says about clocks
Mapping Rice - watch Elaine Gan from the University of California at Santa Cruz talking about multispecies temporalities
Living on the edge of time – PhD candidate Anna McFarlane of the University of St. Andrews suggests a utopian novel
Between the immanent and transcendent – Florian Zemmin, PhD candidate from the University of Bern, tells you whether we live in secular or post-secular times
A talk on the history of time from the absolute through relativity, on clocks and other mechanisms of control, and the way these ideas were worked out and transformed in Peter Galison’s collaboration with artist William Kentridge for the installation The Refusal of Time at dOCUMENTA (13).
Clarissa Lee calls attention to a Summer School on “Physics and Philosophy of Time” to take place in Munich, 23-28 July 2013: CfP