Jimena Canales On Brownian Motion, Energy and Time
Jimena Canales is a historian of science and an expert in 19th and 20th century history of the physical sciences. Her major works include A Tenth of a Second: A History (University of Chicago Press, 2009); The Physicist and the Philosopher: Einstein, Bergson and the Debate That Changed Our Understanding of Time (Princeton University Press, […]
Shigenori Nagatomo on Ki Energy
Shigenori Nagatomo is Professor of Comparative Philosophy and East Asian Buddhism at Temple University, Philadelphia in the United States. He is the author of Attunement Through the Body (1992, SUNY Press); A Philosophical Investigation of Miki Kiyosi’s Concept of Humanism (1995, Edwin Mellen Press); The Diamondsūtra’s Logic of Not and a Critique of Katz’s Contextualism […]
Dannabang Kuwabong on the Energetics of the Bagre
Dannabang Kuwabong is Professor of Caribbean and Postcolonial Literature at the University of Puerto Rico. He is the author of several theoretical works such as Myth Performance in the African Diasporas (Scarecrow Press 2013); and New Ghanian Literatures and Cultures (CSP 2024). He has also authored many works of poetry, including Echoes from Dusty Rivers (Capricornus Enterprises 1999); Caribbean Blues & Love’s Genealogy (Mawenzi House 2008); and Sargasso Sea Scrolls (2024). In this episode we discuss the Dagaaba narrative of energetic origins, geographical and agricultural journeys called the Bagre.
Peter Szendy: Images of Energy/Energies of the Image
Peter Szendy is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at Brown University in the United States, and lead for the Cogut Institute’s ‘Economies of Aesthetics’ initiative. Peter is the author of many important works at the intersection of philosophy, literature, technology, sound, and the image, including The Supermarket of the Visible: Toward a General Economy […]
Eva Jablonka on Epigenetics and Resonance
Professor Eva Jablonka is Emeritus Professor at the Cohen Institute for the History & Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University and a world leading expert on epigenetic inheritance and evolution and the evolutionary transition to phenomenal consciousness. She has published extensively including: Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb (1995) Epigenetic Inheritance and Evolution […]
Yuk Hui on Qi and Concretisation
Yuk Hui is Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he holds the Chair of Human Conditions. Hui studied computer engineering at the University of Hong Kong, before writing this PhD thesis at Goldsmiths University London under French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, and later obtained his Habilitation in philosophy from Leuphana University, Lüneburg. Hui is […]
James Maffie on Teotl
James Maffie is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Affiliate Faculty member of the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Center at the University of Maryland. He is principally known for his work on Aztec philosophy, in particular his book Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion that came out with University Press of Colorado in 2014, […]
