Thomas Metzinger's entire book on consciousness is open-access! 📚
“In The Elephant and the Blind, influential philosopher Thomas Metzinger, one of the world's leading researchers on consciousness, brings together more than 500 experiential reports to offer the world's first comprehensive account of states of pure consciousness.”
The wheel of life turns, consciousness makes abrupt shifts between, on one hand, a clear and distinct image of reality, and on the other hand, a vague and hallucinatory projection of the realm of imagination. Is it then possible to observe your own consciousness? Does it cease to be conscious of the link to the otherworldly if it is not dusted off?
✨3rd Phenomenology Conference (Zürich/Online) w/ Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs
📣‘Depression, anxiety, trauma, schizophrenia, orthorexia - insights into phenomenological psychopathology’, March 16th 2024, Zurich/Switzerland and online. The presentation and discussion will be simultaneously interpreted into English.
The Encyclopedia of Phenomenology presents a comprehensive mapping of phenomenological thought on a global scale within philosophy and related disciplines. It appeals to researchers in philosophy and related theoretical/applied disciplines, as well as to advanced undergraduate and graduate students.
#ClimateDiary Just saw that our (already very scraggly looking) #Laburnum tree has suddenly started flowering - not everywhere, but around 4-5 flowers across the tree. It’s flowering season is normally May/June. Is it just ours or have others observed the same? Or is it normal for them and i just didn’t notice before? #Phenology#Jahreszeitenchaos#SeasonChaos
@charliestyr ! yes, crocusses are normally spring flowers. I also just noticed these #flowers on our street, which normally blossom in May/June. I don’t know enough about all this though- maybe it is quite “normal” for trees/plants to sometimes flower at unusual times of the year? #Bloomscrolling folks may know more #ClimateDiary#Phenomenology
I'll be presenting some of my PhD research on #ClimateScience, #Phenomenology, and #Geography & my newer stuff on biometeorology, meteoropathy, & meteorosensitivity today at 1pm UK time (Durham Geography, online).
The basic question I’m after is what this material tells us about feeling global warming in the temperature, on the surface of your skin, in the lining of your blood vessels & in your mind.. Not the most cheerful talk! Still informative, I hope..
I guess I'll do an #introduction, now that I'm here!
Howdy y'all, I'm Em.
These days I'm feeling too #queer for shul here in Germany, too religious for the queer "community".
I spend a lot of time thinking about how Whiteness and White supremacism manifest in our society and minds. I'm learning to #decolonize my self and always looking for friends who actively seek the same.
I'm a software developer by day, but that world is becoming less and less important to me.
My partner and I have a 70 year old steel sailboat that we're completely overhauling together, and someday we hope to set sail from #Hamburg towards wherever the wind takes us.
Until then, come on over. Let me make you a tea. How ya doin, but I mean it, really. Whatcha thinkin about these days?
Interesting to see how that changes the dynamics of people in the field. Phenomenology as a ”hard science” has always been a slightly problematic concept.
With different types of people now starting to wrestle with the same topics, we might get some incontestable replicatibility onto the field. Or maybe not, but interesting times nevertheless!
Philipp Felsch's book Wie Nietzsche aus der Kälte kam [How Nietzsche came in from the cold] was mentioned at the workshop on translation and the archive yesterday … It's a study of the two Italian editors and translators of Nietzsche, Colli and Montinari.
In the 1970s I was a partisan in this glorious rebellion, but in the Willamette valley, far from the salons of Europe (we had pubs). It was exciting - and baffling.
I still don’t fathom phenomenology. I’m like Clint Eastwood’s mule in A Fistful of Dollars: I just don’t get it.
But I’m told that baseball is best understood phenomenologically. #theory#LiteraryTheory#phenomenology#baseball#ClintEastwood
Despite its sensationalist pulpy title and #ColdWar premise, Jack Arnold's adaptation of the #RichardMatheson novel is an existentialist treatise.
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) plays with the understanding of what it means to be acknowledged as a human, and one's place in the world. The story is told through the eyes of the titular Shrinking Man – Scott Carey – who after being exposed to strange fog, finds himself increasingly lost in this world.