How do different fields try to get at the nitty gritty of what living systems require in order to fit the definition of “alive”? How have researchers from the areas of artificial life and synthetic biology assumed certain ontologies of life, or

THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE//Bioartcamp – biologists, artists, philosophers, and the wilderness

Jan 23rd, 2013 29m 2s

What do you get when you bring biologists, artists, philosophers and filmmakers out into the Canadian Rocky Mountains on a 2 week research-creation summit? Why, Bioartcamp of course! Created by Dr. Jennifer Willet, the accomplished bioartist an

THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE//Cybernetics Shows Us A World That Modern Science Can’t - What Stuff is Really Like

Jan 23rd, 2013 22m 22s

What is capital M Modern science? How have humans cooked it up? What is cybernetics? And how are they different?Dr. Andy Pickering ties together western traditions of binary thinking with modern science and discusses them in comparison with c

It’s hard to be critical these days! Academia and Activism.

Jan 23rd, 2013 13m 50s

Our university departments are becoming increasingly interdisciplinary where people from different backgrounds come together to keep each other in check while tackling large issues that have a lot at stake. One place this is happening is in syn

THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE // My house is recording me, my house is selling me?

Jan 23rd, 2013 9m 18s

Smart phones, smart boards, smart homes…. every technology is apparently so darn smart, but how are we keeping up with these gadgets ourselves? Smart technologies are referred to as such because they seem intelligent enough to know about our pe

THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE // Working to protect people we’ll never meet

Jan 23rd, 2013 12m 58s

What would the future be like if there were governmentally appointed people alive today who worked to protect the basic qualities of life for people who have not yet been born? Should the not-yet-existent people of the world be represented acro

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