Weird Studies/Holiday Memories
31 Aug 2022 - 30 Oct 2025
- DISI conference sounds like fun Home - DISI Templeton Foundation funded?
- Yeah lot of big name speakers, more STEM than arts.
- Kristin Andrews studies animal cognition with a focus on agency (or morality and normativity)
- Interdisciplinarity as like anarchist paradise, they do mention Hakim Bey's observation that everything accrues structure and eventually collapses under the weight. Derrida and Foucault used to be revolutionary, now they are just an alternative establishment.
- Amen, the best academic thing I ever did was to carve out a little interdisciplinary TAZ Narrative Intelligence
- They mention scaling out festivals, which reminds me of this really valuable talk (351) Why The Man Keeps Burning | Larry Harvey - YouTube
- Anarchist utopias and interdisciplinary gatherings are events, not things, you can experience them but not hang on to them.
- They talk about coopting the underground and want to send them Chapman's MOP essay.
- They were blown away by scientists finding teleological panpsychism etc in nature.
- Met with some extended mind people (but don't name them, sigh)