tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4553948810150621222024-02-19T00:59:26.304-08:00Media CatalogueA collaborative repository for found media.Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-60348109936276654042013-10-30T18:15:00.003-07:002013-10-30T18:15:35.377-07:00Philosophy of Skateboarding: Rodney Mullen<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jteIi0toZRE?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-65737277564508423002013-10-30T17:50:00.000-07:002013-10-30T17:52:04.057-07:00Grounded: a "Groundbreaking" Documentary About The Healing Power Of The Earth (2013)This captivating documentary follows a National Geographic filmmaker who finds relief from pain and aches using the earth as a healing conduit source of free electrons. Helping his community in Alaska, he expands his circle of people who are eager to learn about the effects of grounding. Featuring David Suzuki, Clint Ober, Dr. Mercola, and other leaders, naturalists, and health visionaries.
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A debate about human origins between the Archbishop of Canterbury and Biologist Richard Dwakinsjgerriehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04063695347287888310noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-38280613966160558002011-04-29T23:21:00.000-07:002011-04-30T18:35:54.012-07:00On Water<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/10328536?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" frameborder="0" height="225" width="400"></iframe><p><br /><br />Produced by the <a href="http://www.surfrider.org/">Surfrider Foundation</a><br /><br />Their Mission Statement:<br /><br />A little over 25 years ago three people in Malibu, California found out that their favorite wave was about to be destroyed. Think about that for a second.<br /><br />Think about something you love... something that gives you enjoyment. Taken away.<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixpOLxQM9OswQN6b5aQ7vPa3XJWv_CkpfQ2A4CiRtSZxP80s8kbqKkJMUoYJTOj5ft-X-XFlrDkjgzXqrFR-si1qlYSJO3BUN3aaLrpralZZumjtDp2LT5RfH2LfzEjn11UgoMzSuftdJx/s1600/kc_bu.jpg"><img style="float: right; margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixpOLxQM9OswQN6b5aQ7vPa3XJWv_CkpfQ2A4CiRtSZxP80s8kbqKkJMUoYJTOj5ft-X-XFlrDkjgzXqrFR-si1qlYSJO3BUN3aaLrpralZZumjtDp2LT5RfH2LfzEjn11UgoMzSuftdJx/s400/kc_bu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5601555118666373538" border="0" /></a><br />First Point, pictured to the right, the quintessential perfect, California wave was about to be destroyed. Those three people organized and worked with the local municipalities until they were satisfied that their efforts to preserve that iconic wave would be successful.<br /><br />This was the genesis of Surfrider Foundation.<br /><br />Today, we are doing this same thing in about 15 countries around the world.<br /><br />Our mission is the protection and enjoyment of oceans, waves and beaches through a powerful activist network.<br /><br />You can think about that as three concepts. "Protection and enjoyment", we don't want to put a velvet rope around a beach and tell people to keep off. We're surfers, we're beach goers, we're watermen... we enjoy the coasts. We're a user group. Next up is "oceans, waves and beaches." Think coastlines, we're engaged with environmental issues that affect our coastlines. "Powerful activist network" speaks to how we go about this mission. We are a grassroots organization. We're local in many coastal regions.<br /><br />We're moms, we're surfers, we're kids and teens... we're you. We're engaged to protect what we love; oceans, waves and beaches.</p>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-23594894727089694652011-04-16T17:41:00.000-07:002011-04-16T17:58:20.218-07:00Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies'<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_bWXFXu7Gmu3JhFh0QbFEgqNVl_mHBH8ozyzKgCkgjwtRP4G2JKQJ5kit0DBsd9Dtc767nOdEAZGZaptOUw6Vr16KAaQyLtCpg3l4Ntq3ROGYv4n-7IY1vop83-c-nFii54OP8c8loB1/s1600/Brand.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 190px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4_bWXFXu7Gmu3JhFh0QbFEgqNVl_mHBH8ozyzKgCkgjwtRP4G2JKQJ5kit0DBsd9Dtc767nOdEAZGZaptOUw6Vr16KAaQyLtCpg3l4Ntq3ROGYv4n-7IY1vop83-c-nFii54OP8c8loB1/s400/Brand.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5596350114010238434" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:78%;">Photo by Ted Streshinsky<br /></span></div><br /><br />Founder of the <em>Whole Earth Catalog</em>, cofounder of the Well and the <a href="http://www.longnow.org/" target="_blank">Long Now Foundation</a>, writer, editor and game designer, <strong>Stewart Brand has helped to define the collaborative, data-sharing, forward-thinking world</strong> we live in now.<br /><br />Since the 1960s, he has maintained that -- <strong>given access to the information we need -- humanity can make the world a better place</strong>. One of his early accomplishments: helping to persuade NASA to release the first photo of the Earth from space. The iconic Big Blue Marble became the cover for his <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Original-Whole-Catalog-Special-Anniversary/dp/1892907054/ref=sr_1_5/002-6619683-7028047?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179414025&sr=1-5" target="_blank">Whole Earth Catalog</a>,</em> a massive compendium of resources and facts he thought people might like to know. And we did: the 1972 edition sold 1.5 million copies. In 1987, he wrote <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Media-Lab-Inventing-Future-M/dp/0140097015/ref=sr_1_6/002-6619683-7028047?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179413987&sr=1-6" target="_blank"><em>The Media Lab: Inventing the Future at MIT</em></a>; in 1994, <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966" target="_blank">How Buildings Learn</a>.</em><br /><br />Currently Brand is working with computer scientist Danny Hillis to build the Clock of the Long Now, a 10,000-year timepiece; his Long Now Foundation also runs a number of spinoff projects, including <strong>the <a href="http://www.rosettaproject.org/" target="_blank">Rosetta Project</a>, cataloguing the world's languages</strong>, and the <a href="http://www.longbets.org/" target="_blank">Long Bets</a> website. He's also busy with the Global Business Network (part of the Monitor Group), helping businesses plan for the near and way-far future. (<a href="http://www.ted.com/speakers/stewart_brand.html">bio taken here</a>)<br /><br /><br /><!--copy and paste--><object height="326" width="446"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/StewartBrand_2009S-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/StewartBrand-2009S.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=598&lang=eng&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=stewart_brand_proclaims_4_environmental_heresies;year=2009;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;theme=what_s_next_in_tech;theme=the_power_of_cities;theme=to_boldly_go;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=a_greener_future;theme=rethinking_poverty;event=Rethinking+Poverty;tag=Global+Issues;tag=alternative+energy;tag=climate+change;tag=development;tag=environment;tag=future;tag=green;tag=sustainability;tag=urban+planning;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;"><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/StewartBrand_2009S-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/StewartBrand-2009S.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=598&lang=eng&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=stewart_brand_proclaims_4_environmental_heresies;year=2009;theme=bold_predictions_stern_warnings;theme=what_s_next_in_tech;theme=the_power_of_cities;theme=to_boldly_go;theme=unconventional_explanations;theme=a_greener_future;theme=rethinking_poverty;event=Rethinking+Poverty;tag=Global+Issues;tag=alternative+energy;tag=climate+change;tag=development;tag=environment;tag=future;tag=green;tag=sustainability;tag=urban+planning;" height="326" width="446"></embed></object>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-4725759911734068042011-04-12T10:42:00.000-07:002011-04-12T10:51:45.354-07:00Entitled Opinions: A conversation with Thomas Sheehan, Stanford Professor of Religious Studies, about Heidegger's Being and Time.<div style="text-align: center;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8aqlr5BFmxyCSDFDtAfTRz69M-ETQRzHPcXfw_QkLSulHHJvUPde3m3teJFpzxvp7rYWg0ppAjEPCOmNw61v1EqDg6YWL6q_3tD9rj69F5HLcIqTltnDkESSmZAh8krf6DlE14gY8VPUy/s1600/heidegger1968.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 376px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8aqlr5BFmxyCSDFDtAfTRz69M-ETQRzHPcXfw_QkLSulHHJvUPde3m3teJFpzxvp7rYWg0ppAjEPCOmNw61v1EqDg6YWL6q_3tD9rj69F5HLcIqTltnDkESSmZAh8krf6DlE14gY8VPUy/s400/heidegger1968.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5594755861901011826" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:78%;">Heidegger 1968</span><br /></div><br /><br /><br />Thomas Sheehan is Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford and specializes in contemporary European philosophy and its relation to religious questions, with particular interests in Heidegger and Roman Catholicism. Before coming to Stanford he taught at Loyola University of Chicago since 1972. He received his B.A. from St. Patrick's College and his Ph.D. from Fordham University. He has been the recipient of many academic honors including: Ford Foundation Fellow (1983-85), Resident Scholar at the American Academy in Rome (1983), National Endowment for the Humanities (1980), Fritz Thyssen Foundation (1979-80), and a Mellon Foundation Grant. His books include: Martin Heidegger, Logic: The Question of Truth (trans., 2007); Becoming Heidegger (2007); Edmund Husserl: Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Encounter with Heidegger (1997); Karl Rahner: The Philosophical Foundations (1987); The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity (1986); and Heidegger, the Man and the Thinker (1981). (<a href="http://french-italian.stanford.edu/opinions/sheehan_heidegger.html">bio taken here</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://french-italian.stanford.edu/opinions/sheehan_heidegger.html">Click Here to Listen to Show</a>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-47305646138647932742011-04-12T09:21:00.001-07:002011-04-12T09:24:53.437-07:00Dave Meslin: The antidote to apathyLocal politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies the 7 barriers that keep us from taking part in our communities, even when we truly care.<br /><br /><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2010X/Blank/DaveMeslin_2010X-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/DaveMeslin-2010X.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1119&lang=&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy;year=2010;theme=a_taste_of_tedx;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=New+on+TED.com;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talk/stream/2010X/Blank/DaveMeslin_2010X-320k.mp4&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/DaveMeslin-2010X.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1119&lang=&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy;year=2010;theme=a_taste_of_tedx;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=New+on+TED.com;"></embed></object>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-6916007124854938502011-03-13T17:53:00.000-07:002011-03-13T17:55:46.200-07:00Salman Khan: Let's use video to reinvent educationSalman Khan talks about how and why he created the remarkable Khan Academy, a carefully structured series of educational videos offering complete curricula in math and, now, other subjects. He shows the power of interactive exercises, and calls for teachers to consider flipping the traditional classroom script -- give students video lectures to watch at home, and do "homework" in the classroom with the teacher available to help.<br /><br /><br /><!--copy and paste--><object width="446" height="326"><param name="movie" value="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="bgColor" value="#ffffff"></param> <param name="flashvars" value="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/SalmanKhan_2011-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/SalmanKhan-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1090&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education;year=2011;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TED2011;&preAdTag=tconf.ted/embed;tile=1;sz=512x288;" /><embed src="http://video.ted.com/assets/player/swf/EmbedPlayer.swf" pluginspace="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" bgColor="#ffffff" width="446" height="326" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" flashvars="vu=http://video.ted.com/talks/dynamic/SalmanKhan_2011-medium.flv&su=http://images.ted.com/images/ted/tedindex/embed-posters/SalmanKhan-2011.embed_thumbnail.jpg&vw=432&vh=240&ap=0&ti=1090&introDuration=15330&adDuration=4000&postAdDuration=830&adKeys=talk=salman_khan_let_s_use_video_to_reinvent_education;year=2011;theme=a_taste_of_ted2011;theme=new_on_ted_com;event=TED2011;"></embed></object>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-67323059060147504462011-02-18T12:14:00.000-08:002011-02-18T12:16:11.897-08:00RadioLab - The Good Show<embed flashvars="file=http://www.radiolab.org/audio/xspf/103951/&repeat=list&autostart=false&popurl=http://www.radiolab.org/audio/xspf/103951/%3Fdownload%3Dhttp%3A//www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/audio.wnyc.org/radiolab/radiolab121410.mp3" quality="high" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" src="http://www.radiolab.org/media/audioplayer/player5.swf" height="39" width="620"></embed><script type="text/javascript">(function(){var s=function(){__flash__removeCallback=function(i,n){if(i)i[n]=null;};window.setTimeout(s,10);};s();})();</script><br /><br />In this episode, a question that haunted Charles Darwin: if natural selection boils down to survival of the fittest, how do you explain why one creature might stick its neck out for another?<br /><br />The standard view of evolution is that living things are shaped by cold-hearted competition. And there is no doubt that today's plants and animals carry the genetic legacy of ancestors who fought fiercely to survive and reproduce. But in this hour, we wonder whether there might also be a logic behind sharing, niceness, kindness ... or even, self-sacrifice. Is altruism an aberration, or just an elaborate guise for sneaky self-interest? Do we really live in a selfish, dog-eat-dog world? Or has evolution carved out a hidden code that rewards genuine cooperation?Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-59818153555579316002011-01-30T13:08:00.000-08:002011-01-30T13:15:56.246-08:00C. K. Williams on Whitman’s Music: Whose Words These Are<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-t703EuJZ9vYSQKiAGvweGGfpVGePbbU5lOiimNVlQfV43zPdb7tUTSYFRwzyrz0Q4DmiVpHDc_i6eAkjuLfTe_o0uS-RyECY6ua0rLW3qUhSy8jpw54BqTLV2XnS5inFTL8sH4hkQ7L/s1600/williams_zweig.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZ-t703EuJZ9vYSQKiAGvweGGfpVGePbbU5lOiimNVlQfV43zPdb7tUTSYFRwzyrz0Q4DmiVpHDc_i6eAkjuLfTe_o0uS-RyECY6ua0rLW3qUhSy8jpw54BqTLV2XnS5inFTL8sH4hkQ7L/s400/williams_zweig.gif" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5568089897327065474" /></a><br /><br />C.K. Williams has won nearly every major poetry award. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Repair (1999) won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. The Singing won the National Book Award in 2003. In 2005, he was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize.<br /><br />Since 1996, he has taught in the creative writing program at Princeton University, and he divides his time between Princeton and France. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._K._Williams">bio taken here</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.radioopensource.org/c-k-williams-on-whitmans-music-whose-words-these-are-30/">Click Here for Interview</a>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-22316833461248342262010-03-24T18:19:00.000-07:002010-03-24T19:00:46.742-07:00How Analytic Philosophy has Failed Cognitive Science?<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UCbc40Bf9v6SI8Pvtorc3p-w0p-h_8FWeRwwKBfaGhbESm7pYKIS8RtaEXIEQ6jcfdQ3nZqrCi5vTcSZ35OR0pMnQxES2HASMASc8cG0CK5lMJBx_LUnUqPf_LCiGD-T7fk1PY5s9sFm/s1600/brandom.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 203px; height: 294px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8UCbc40Bf9v6SI8Pvtorc3p-w0p-h_8FWeRwwKBfaGhbESm7pYKIS8RtaEXIEQ6jcfdQ3nZqrCi5vTcSZ35OR0pMnQxES2HASMASc8cG0CK5lMJBx_LUnUqPf_LCiGD-T7fk1PY5s9sFm/s400/brandom.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452383715399573586" border="0" /></a>Robert Brandom is Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, a fellow of the Center for the Philosophy of Science, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. His interests center on philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of logic. He has published more than 50 articles on these and related areas. He is currently at work on a book on Hegel's <em>Phenomenology</em> He has been a Nelson Visiting Professor at the University of Michigan (1990), delivered the Hempel Lectures at Princeton (1994), and the Townsend Lectures at Berkeley (1997). (<a href="http://www.pitt.edu/%7Ephilosop/people/brandom.html">bio taken here</a>)<br /><br /><a href="http://www.college-de-france.fr/default/EN/all/phi_lan/confernce_du_.jsp">"How Analytic Philosophy Has Failed Cognitive Science," Collège de France, 26 May, 2009</a>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-21691083208472315322010-03-13T21:45:00.000-08:002010-03-16T21:12:55.735-07:00On Aggression: The Politics and Psychobiology of Evil<a href="http://philoctetes.org/Home/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 48px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6Ly3mi67Qonwt-yEI7vTJ4lnVAmShZILQuXjrnbeDzHmKxIDN3MVuDJcB0KOU9DsLVpGsGb_giCbKg918TV4_fJaAhsII8GlE20LQpIS83fLkdUdW5MKZu9pV3QhyphenhyphenzJoJEXoim8wnFPnf/s400/watch_header.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5448362847510646706" border="0" /></a><br /><br />"The motive hunting of motiveless malignity" is a famous line that Coleridge wrote in his copy of Othello. Everybody has a little larceny in their souls, but there are those singular human beings who seem to be agents of Lucifer. Hitler certainly represents a form of evil that falls outisde the scale of human psychological consideration. But where, for example, do huxters, grifters, scam artists, and frauds stand in this context? Dahmer and other serial killers might qualify, but their acts seem to beg some kind of psychological understanding. And how do catastrophic events like Pompeii or, in recent history, the Tsunamis in Southeast Asia reconcile with a beneficent view of nature and belief in a higher power or God? If there is a God, is such a being or force indifferent or even retributive? And what is the effect of extreme manifestations of evil on our faith in the enlightened notions of science and reason? These and other questions will be addressed in this final roundtable in the series, On Aggression.<br /><br />Richard Bernstein is Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research. He is the author of Radical Evil: A Philosophical Interrogation and The Abuse of Evil: The Corruption of Politics and Religion since 9/11.<br /><br />Jacques Lezra is Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, Portuguese and English, and Chair of the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. Previously he taught at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, at Yale, Harvard, and at the Bread Loaf School of English. Lezra's research concerns the literature, philosophy, and visual culture of the early modern period (Shakespeare, Cervantes, Descartes, Velazquez), as well as contemporary ethical philosophy. He has published Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe and edited Spanish Republic and Depositions: Althusser, Balibar, Macherey and the Labor of Reading. His 1992 translation into Spanish of Paul de Man's Blindness and Insight won the PEN Critical Editions Award. Lezra’s next book, Wild Materialism: The Ethic of Terror in the Modern Republic, will be published in 2009. Economía política del alma: El suceso cervantino, a book on the political economy of the soul in Cervantes, is also in press and will appear this fall.<br /><br />Edward Nersessian is Co-Director of the Philoctetes Center. He is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Weil-Cornell Medical College, and a Training & Supervising Psychoanalyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.<br /><br />Kent Reynolds is a Post-Doctoral Fellow and Biblical Languages Instructor at the Union Theological Seminary. Previously, Dr. Reynolds served as a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In his current research, Dr. Reynolds focuses on the pedagogic nature of texts in the Hebrew Bible, especially in the area of character formation, and how these texts were received and transmitted by the earliest interpreters. He has several studies in process, including a book on Psalm 119, a collection of essays, and conference presentations. Dr. Reynolds has published an article in Vetus Testamentum and has a forthcoming article in Zeitschrift für Althebräistik.<br /><br />Joel Whitebook is a philosopher and practicing psychoanalyst. He is on the faculty of the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and, beginning in fall of 2010, he will be Director of the Psychoanalytic Studies Program in Columbia's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. He is writing an intellectual biography of Freud for Cambridge University Press and his book, Der gefesselte Odysseus: Studien zur Kritischen Theorie und Psychoanalyse has just been published by Campus Verlag.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l7Qqhi5Jh0">Click Here to Watch on Youtube</a><br /><a href="http://www.philoctetes.org/Past_Programs/On_Aggression_The_Politics_and_Psychobiology_of_Evil">Click Here for Source Website</a>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-22489981234834350172010-03-12T18:22:00.000-08:002010-03-16T21:12:34.957-07:00Psychotherapy in the Age of Neuroreceptors and Genes<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://philoctetes.org/Home/"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 290px; height: 48px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3rDFDStwdk6ZDI5jUgDonumRe4MQvU3sL-Wo7rTK6lgtMux-tvKCIr13Bz12Nt83YYghuSFBNWYW1TGRtHN9tJXMVXVmqja2QaWcCQf6I2qg0dgNbGCo4Dhh0iHBgvWaYCwr-h1NJKCis/s400/watch_header.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447939375179314818" border="0" /></a><br /><br />Is there a place for dynamic psychotherapy in the age of genes and neurotransmitters? This roundtable will attempt to situate the role of intensive psychotherapy among the various options available today for the treatment of serious mental disorders. Panelists will present and examine different viewpoints and assess the efficacy of divergent approaches.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Brian Koehler</span> is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst with a strong neuroscience background. He is in the private practice of psychoanalytic psychotherapy in New York City and on the teaching faculty at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, at the School of Social Work at New York University, as well as at a number of other psychoanalytic training institutes in New York City and State. Dr. Koehler is a scientific advisor and former reviewer for the journal, Schizophrenia Bulletin, and a reviewer for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ze’ev Levin</span> is Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Director of Residency Training in Psychiatry at the NYU School of Medicine. He received his medical degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and was a resident in Psychiatry and Chief Resident at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute. A graduate of the Columbia Psychoanalytic Centre for Training and Research, he has been the Associate Director and Director of the residency training in-patient unit at Bellevue Hospital Center. In addition to his training job, Dr. Levin has a private practice in Manhattan.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Charles Marmar</span> is the newly appointed Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at NYU Langone Medical Center. Most recently, Dr. Marmar served as Professor and Vice Chair at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and the Associate Chief of Staff for Mental Health and Director of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Research Program at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He has served as the President of both the Society of Psychotherapy Research and the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and served as a member of the editorial board for the Journal of Psychotherapy Research and Practice and the Journal of Traumatic Stress. He has been a reviewer for The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, Biological Psychiatry, The American Journal of Psychiatry and The Journal of Psychiatric Research.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ira Steinman</span> is a psychiatrist in private practice in San Francisco. He is the author of Treating the "Untreatable": Healing in the Realms of Madness, a chronicle of the successful, at times curative, out-patient intensive psychotherapy of 12 previously "untreatable" patients. Steinman has focused on schizophrenia for 45 years. His early training ranged from working with R.D. Laing to running the psychiatric drug component of the National Academy of Sciences' Drug Efficacy Study, which evaluated all the antipsychotic medications available at the time to studies at Chestnut Lodge and Mount Zion Hospital.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NJsSHZ6GrQ">Click Here to Watch on Youtube</a><br /><a href="http://philoctetes.org/Past_Programs/The_Role_of_Psychotherapy_in_the_Age_of_Neuroreceptors_and_Genes">Click Here for Source Website</a>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-5964431239559511822010-01-19T22:21:00.000-08:002010-01-19T22:32:28.847-08:00Claude Levi-Strauss<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/VideoTest/levi.ram"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 395px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1UEIdix4YMS-b0nv5phtzv1fRFN6Pg04InNxHQjWbnGG2sBKHJqqqsa6Nq_2AkluZ93wjPxGxXEArB0VN42yTutgZ_aPipF6bPmJKTzKGWaW6p0B94mmC66Gg3Ymc014LJKJOXhEaCJ74/s400/levistrauss.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5428704048036815202" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br />Claude Lévi-Strauss (28 November 1908 – 30 October 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called the "father of modern anthropology".<br /><br />When young, Lévi-Strauss organized expeditions into the French countryside, and later studied in Paris, where he went on to teach. He later traveled and did research in Brazil with his first wife, Dina. Returning to France, he was drafted into the French army, but after France was invaded by the Nazis, he escaped to New York, where he taught at The New School for Social Research. In 1948, he returned to France.<br /><br />Levi-Strauss never accepted the notion that Western civilization was unique and privileged: in his contact with Indigenous peoples in Brazil and Indigenous peoples in North America, he emphasized that the 'savage' mind had the same structures to the civilized mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere. These observations culminated in his famous book Tristes Tropiques, which positioned him as one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought, where his ideas reached into fields including the humanities and philosophy. Structuralism has been defined as "the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity."<br /><br />He was honored by universities throughout the world and held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France (1959–1982); he was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1973. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_L%C3%A9vi-Strauss">bio taken here</a>)<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The Birth of Historical Societies</span> (Hitchcock Lectures)<br />October 3 and 4, 1984. Berkeley Language Center, UC Berkeley<br /><a href="http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/VideoTest/levi.ram">Click Here To Listen</a>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-82390364719751257872009-12-29T20:39:00.000-08:002009-12-29T20:40:33.548-08:00The Champions, Part 1: Unlikely WarriorsIn Part 1 of this 3-part documentary series, director Donald Brittain chronicles the early years of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque. From their university days in the 1950s to 1967 when Lévesque left the Liberal Party and Trudeau became the federal Minister of Justice, Brittain attempts to get at the heart of what makes these men so fascinating.<br /><embed src="http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/flash/ONFflvplayer-gama.swf" width="400" height="337" width="402" height="325" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" autostart="false" flashvars="mID=IDOBJ5311&image=http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/nfb_tube/thumbs_large/2009/Thechampions_big1_.jpg&width=516&height=337&autostart=false&showWarningMessages=false&streamNotFoundDelay=15&lang=en&getPlaylistOnEnd=true&embeddedMode=true"></embed>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-52276317397419003432009-12-29T20:36:00.000-08:002009-12-29T20:38:07.169-08:00The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of PowerPart 2 of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque covers the years between 1967 and 1977, a colourful decade that saw Trudeau win three federal elections, the 1970 October Crisis and the sweeping rise to power of the Parti Québécois.<br /><embed src="http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/flash/ONFflvplayer-gama.swf" width="400" height="337" width="402" height="325" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" autostart="false" flashvars="mID=IDOBJ5321&image=http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/nfb_tube/thumbs_large/2009/Thechampions_big2.jpg&width=516&height=337&autostart=false&showWarningMessages=false&streamNotFoundDelay=15&lang=en&getPlaylistOnEnd=true&embeddedMode=true"></embed>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-18994678533568441062009-12-29T20:18:00.000-08:002009-12-29T20:36:14.240-08:00The Champions, Part 3: The Final BattleThe final instalment of this 3-part documentary series about Pierre Elliott Trudeau and René Lévesque spans the decade between 1976 and 1986. The film reveals the turbulent, behind-the-scenes drama during the Quebec referendum and the repatriation of the Canadian Constitution. In doing so, it also traces both Trudeau's and Lévesque's fall from power.<br /><embed src="http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/flash/ONFflvplayer-gama.swf" width="400" height="337" width="402" height="325" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" autostart="false" flashvars="mID=IDOBJ5331&image=http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/nfb_tube/thumbs_large/2009/Thechampions_big3.jpg&width=516&height=337&autostart=false&showWarningMessages=false&streamNotFoundDelay=15&lang=en&getPlaylistOnEnd=true&embeddedMode=true"></embed>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-71223961157222844952009-11-09T22:29:00.000-08:002009-11-09T22:33:26.089-08:00Manuel de Landa: Deleuze and the Use of the Genetic Algorithm in Architecture<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRDUAjIEHfNbhpZDipSTYKgLrCD1AihInDyXAzIWL7WBkcUjvaANYcCuB80EYIAt3eIDztKTZ9HUI2PnDhhiic-7dFHN5w__nzapv8RM5AhbD-Rbpys63tfJLiq6zvV2H3kS15bYwHJuaJ/s1600-h/delanda.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRDUAjIEHfNbhpZDipSTYKgLrCD1AihInDyXAzIWL7WBkcUjvaANYcCuB80EYIAt3eIDztKTZ9HUI2PnDhhiic-7dFHN5w__nzapv8RM5AhbD-Rbpys63tfJLiq6zvV2H3kS15bYwHJuaJ/s400/delanda.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5402359137771780546" border="0" /></a><br />Manuel De Landa, (born 1952 in Mexico City), is a writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University (New York), the Gilles Deleuze Chair of Contemporary Philosophy and Science at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, a lecturer at the Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Design in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and adjunct professor at Pratt Institute the School of Architecture in Brooklyn, New York. He has a BFA from New York's School of Visual Arts. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_de_Landa">bio taken here</a>)<br /><br /><object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/50-d_J0hKz0&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/50-d_J0hKz0&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-17396389520009836272009-10-21T17:43:00.000-07:002009-10-29T02:38:29.222-07:00Tommy Douglas<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZtmsRaAcUSMKmOZuEuvc6qS0-jE12XJLUY7tCNrZcrg4kcbiXCizQXhbXVbMOBYVym3OH7P2So_XOMoj7Ww0sSZ6f1xAtpYiPCsGgQFqIjO8cAf0eQzbrh8hfX95D5J5WtdLHYTRkhSVA/s1600-h/tommydouglas.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 321px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZtmsRaAcUSMKmOZuEuvc6qS0-jE12XJLUY7tCNrZcrg4kcbiXCizQXhbXVbMOBYVym3OH7P2So_XOMoj7Ww0sSZ6f1xAtpYiPCsGgQFqIjO8cAf0eQzbrh8hfX95D5J5WtdLHYTRkhSVA/s400/tommydouglas.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395218912292273090" /></a><br /><br />Thomas Clement "Tommy" Douglas, PC, CC, SOM (20 October 1904 – 24 February 1986) was a Scottish-born Baptist minister who became a prominent Canadian social democratic politician. As leader of the Saskatchewan Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) from 1942 and the seventh Premier of Saskatchewan from 1944 to 1961, he led the first socialist government in North America and introduced universal public healthcare to Canada. When the CCF united with the Canadian Labour Congress to form the New Democratic Party, he was elected as its first federal leader and served in that post from 1961 to 1971. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Douglas">bio taken here</a>)<br /><br /><embed src="http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/flash/ONFflvplayer-gama.swf" width="425" height="334" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" autostart="false" flashvars="mID=IDOBJ11031&image=http://media1.nfb.ca/medias/nfb_tube/thumbs_large/2009/Tommy-Douglas_big.jpg&width=425&height=334&autostart=false&showWarningMessages=false&streamNotFoundDelay=15&lang=en&getPlaylistOnEnd=true&embeddedMode=true"></embed>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-26462749834982826662009-10-21T04:23:00.001-07:002009-10-21T04:26:40.587-07:00George Grant: Canadian Identity, Technology, Nietzsche<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYeb-ct8tAjObz0_h2Hc9HazpiznVtLx2p1s8gj7Awp5doRbwAKTrXAGomEKWd6jm2LLSx4oXTWFwjEj8BqnT2l4nzenlKVpBQSgM1A35fJzq39GaTZtGjkxA1p1RLicBVHTGnPcsxJks/s1600-h/Picture+1.png"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguYeb-ct8tAjObz0_h2Hc9HazpiznVtLx2p1s8gj7Awp5doRbwAKTrXAGomEKWd6jm2LLSx4oXTWFwjEj8BqnT2l4nzenlKVpBQSgM1A35fJzq39GaTZtGjkxA1p1RLicBVHTGnPcsxJks/s400/Picture+1.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395012587712900018" /></a><br /><br />George Parkin Grant OC, D.Phil., FRSC (Toronto, November 13, 1918 - Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 27, 1988) was a Canadian philosopher, teacher and political commentator, whose popular appeal peaked in the late 1960s and 1970s. He is best known for his nationalism, political conservatism, comments on technology, pacifism, Christian faith, and conservative views regarding abortion and is credited as one of Canada's most original thinkers.<br /><br />Academically, his writings express a complex meditation on the great books, and confrontation with the great thinkers, of Western Civilization. His influences include the "ancients" such as Plato, Aristotle, and Augustine of Hippo, as well as "moderns" like Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, Leo Strauss, Simone Weil, and Jacques Ellul. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Grant_(philosopher)">bio taken here</a>)<br /><a href="http://archives.cbc.ca/arts_entertainment/literature/clips/16204/"><br />Click Here for Video Interview</a>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-53798976716901754122009-10-20T04:47:00.000-07:002009-11-11T21:54:28.436-08:00Jacques Rancière: Revisiting Nights of Labor<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-wStXuquZHncHMKuOBX-_esNsHX7f5tfQ0XeOaTgXGYitZwLaRS0qnWVeQxNH2hv_Aipe1rZHQcUHZ8g9LP9_EWaE3VY0TibIQcoGUA3bmbA6_-dKYOH-L2zzI8aBdWnF8KuRA1yLoj28/s1600-h/ranciere.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 338px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-wStXuquZHncHMKuOBX-_esNsHX7f5tfQ0XeOaTgXGYitZwLaRS0qnWVeQxNH2hv_Aipe1rZHQcUHZ8g9LP9_EWaE3VY0TibIQcoGUA3bmbA6_-dKYOH-L2zzI8aBdWnF8KuRA1yLoj28/s400/ranciere.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394650525723216274" border="0" /></a><br />Jacques Rancière (born Algiers, 1940) is a French philosopher and Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Paris (St. Denis) who came to prominence when he co-authored Reading Capital (1968), with the Marxist philosopher Louis Althusser. Rancière has departed from the path set by his teacher and published a series of works probing the concepts that make up our understanding of political discourse. What is ideology? What is the proletariat? Is there a working class? And how do these masses of workers that thinkers like Althusser referred to continuously enter into a relationship with knowledge? We talk about them but what do we know? An example of this line of thinking is Rancière's book entitled Le philosophe et ses pauvres (The Philosopher and His Poor, 1983), a book about the role of the poor in the intellectual lives of philosophers.<br /><br /><object width="416" height="337"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFPL2i6FDYj5CIzb9-T98chUIphJhORk4sI="></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFPL2i6FDYj5CIzb9-T98chUIphJhORk4sI=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="416" height="337"></embed></object>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-54088787815350342582009-10-18T16:11:00.000-07:002009-10-18T16:34:30.138-07:00Mark Kingwell vs. Malcolm Gladwell: Awareness<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgImhRP027b3Eeuj-_cNtWSao2oJaDaF3CrlXtDD55OUMLDBzJ6tgGoYEBplsdc_evM4wSlRRyjfRevoPsXpY6XJ8VXn5YKKW2YASmnvwlEs6-k0_07v9N1bm2_CnmbG-KU2XWDn_YgoO-/s1600-h/akingwellglad.jpeg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 188px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgImhRP027b3Eeuj-_cNtWSao2oJaDaF3CrlXtDD55OUMLDBzJ6tgGoYEBplsdc_evM4wSlRRyjfRevoPsXpY6XJ8VXn5YKKW2YASmnvwlEs6-k0_07v9N1bm2_CnmbG-KU2XWDn_YgoO-/s400/akingwellglad.jpeg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394082758292885410" border="0" /></a><br /><br />A thought-provoking discussion featuring two of the world’s leading popular thinkers / theorists / speakers: Malcolm Gladwell and Mark Kingwell. The evening will encourage thought and dialogue about social change.<br /><br />Malcolm Gladwell is a staff writer for The New Yorker. He is best known as the author of The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference and Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking. Mark Kingwell is Professor of Philosophy at UofT, a contributing editor of Harper's Magazine, and a former columnist for both The National Post and The Globe and Mail. Among his award-winning books are the bestsellers Better Living and The World We Want.<br /><br /><br /><embed src="http://www.tvo.org/video/tvoplayersm.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" bgcolor="#ffffff" name="flashObj" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" flashvars="videoRefID=BI_Full_20081101_834104_MGladwellMKingwell_00&videoPlay=manual&gig_lt=1255906096117&gig_pt=1255907938976&gig_g=2" align="middle" height="292" width="326"></embed><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHHNXVqv_oXpHIrn137SEjGOmj8NGUYQWGxxlDv8YV-9NFOVUgcsLltZMGGK1U_t2Dde33vrzskmaQUbOlcJviJ7hWs_IgRZ5CiaaLOdZYsZbQ2VdUzgyP5CxlT5KiD-RJ9v5VtH36spz/s1600-h/Caravaggio-Conversion-of-St-Paul-1601.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 309px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMHHNXVqv_oXpHIrn137SEjGOmj8NGUYQWGxxlDv8YV-9NFOVUgcsLltZMGGK1U_t2Dde33vrzskmaQUbOlcJviJ7hWs_IgRZ5CiaaLOdZYsZbQ2VdUzgyP5CxlT5KiD-RJ9v5VtH36spz/s400/Caravaggio-Conversion-of-St-Paul-1601.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5394085916219839618" border="0" /></a><img style="visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;" src="http://counters.gigya.com/wildfire/IMP/CXNID=2000002.0NXC/bT*xJmx*PTEyNTU5MDYwOTYxMTcmcHQ9MTI1NTkwNzkzODk3NiZwPTI2Njc1MSZkPXR2b1ZpZGVvUGFnZSZnPTImbz1hYmRkODk2Y2JlZGE*NTY*OGE5NDJhNGVhM2U3NjJmZiZvZj*w.gif" border="0" height="0" width="0" /><span style="font-size:78%;"> Conversion of St. Paul, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio</span>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-89536785274874978952009-10-15T05:40:00.000-07:002009-11-11T22:00:41.763-08:00William R. Catton<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN0l9Rw-t3SKkKgz_QpVh5LswAMZPHc_HISCnRvtdDBRRO0lAcex7CYyeXfUfEoWzTAbbOfXeRX7C_9NUzpXcvixot3vZGSFjyuL2FEt_ZJqlHINOOcu0DTP1-u2mQScKMKscsUSeK6ICO/s1600-h/William_R_Catton_Jr.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhN0l9Rw-t3SKkKgz_QpVh5LswAMZPHc_HISCnRvtdDBRRO0lAcex7CYyeXfUfEoWzTAbbOfXeRX7C_9NUzpXcvixot3vZGSFjyuL2FEt_ZJqlHINOOcu0DTP1-u2mQScKMKscsUSeK6ICO/s400/William_R_Catton_Jr.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392805850647732770" /></a><br /><br />William R. Catton graduated from Oberlin College with an A.B. degree in 1950, whereupon he entered the graduate program in sociology at the University of Washington. He earned his M.A. there in 1952 and his Ph.D. in 1954. He is now Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Washington State University. Catton served as President of the Pacific Sociological Association 1984-85 and as the first chair of the American Sociological Association Section on Environmental Sociology. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Catton,_Jr.">bio taken here</a>)<br /><br /><object width="416" height="337"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFPL2i6FDYj5CNsswF6Ntki3nElkM79B-uA="></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFPL2i6FDYj5CNsswF6Ntki3nElkM79B-uA=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="416" height="337"></embed></object>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-16275614248946045842009-10-15T04:18:00.000-07:002009-11-11T22:07:49.121-08:00Jacques Ellul<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeKldLY5GIPe6HtfnvvibcIFn35fPQgZ1bNfAhn795ETcgfDWCqLIqDbuYX8j2RjIYNTX73muIKYqJzgb27-Qt5c3vGpJ30F0WWQBL6u7lykuwhBatqM92Qgr1e_U8kGiBdifboe55bU35/s1600-h/Jacques_Ellul_630x.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeKldLY5GIPe6HtfnvvibcIFn35fPQgZ1bNfAhn795ETcgfDWCqLIqDbuYX8j2RjIYNTX73muIKYqJzgb27-Qt5c3vGpJ30F0WWQBL6u7lykuwhBatqM92Qgr1e_U8kGiBdifboe55bU35/s400/Jacques_Ellul_630x.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392784864945091826" /></a><br /><br />Jacques Ellul (January 6, 1912 – May 19, 1994) was a French philosopher, law professor, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian. He wrote several books about the "technological society" and the intersection between Christianity and politics.<br /><br />A philosopher who approached technology from a deterministic viewpoint, Ellul, professor at the University of Bordeaux, authored 58 books and more than a thousand articles over his lifetime. (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_Ellul">bio taken here</a>)<br /><br /><object width="416" height="337"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFPL2i6FDYj5CM5Lx5Of7cu4xDMENeK44iE="></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/cp/vjVQa1PpcFPL2i6FDYj5CM5Lx5Of7cu4xDMENeK44iE=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="416" height="337"></embed></object>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-455394881015062122.post-1283658330312004322009-10-11T14:58:00.001-07:002009-10-11T15:06:51.484-07:00Antonio Damasio<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnxmCo1yAsp9iypBvQTJSR9bPnbv5BW5KMdQ533UATfDIgYYuZYhIW5hCiDqQvBTrFGmLLlbd_1jIOA2X2WFc4czdDB_cGuNMx5XDF0m33Benm2TYrRjxPa1FOHEt5U9-dDaVdR-B9wWAx/s1600-h/damasio.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 363px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnxmCo1yAsp9iypBvQTJSR9bPnbv5BW5KMdQ533UATfDIgYYuZYhIW5hCiDqQvBTrFGmLLlbd_1jIOA2X2WFc4czdDB_cGuNMx5XDF0m33Benm2TYrRjxPa1FOHEt5U9-dDaVdR-B9wWAx/s400/damasio.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5391465370496656818" /></a><br /><br />Antonio Damasio is an internationally recognized leader in neuroscience. His research has helped to elucidate the neural basis for the emotions and has shown that emotions play a central role in social cognition and decision-making. His work has also had a major influence on current understanding of the neural systems, which underlie memory, language and consciousness. Damasio directs the newly created USC Brain and Creativity Institute. (<a href="http://college.usc.edu/cf/faculty-and-staff/faculty.cfm?pid=1008328&CFID=7615235&CFTOKEN=37530923">bio taken here</a>)<br /><br /><object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" width="400" height="264" ><param name="flashvars" value="webhost=fora.tv&clipid=9852&cliptype=full" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="movie" value="http://fora.tv/embedded_player" /><embed flashvars="webhost=fora.tv&clipid=9852&cliptype=full" src="http://fora.tv/embedded_player" width="400" height="264" allowScriptAccess="always" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed></object>Future Aztec Manhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17281616210489822061noreply@blogger.com0