Ex nihilo - Podcast English

You might call Roger Pielke Jr., the son of the highly respected Climatologist Roger Pielke Sr., an Environmental Political scientist who analyzes the atmospheric disruptions between Science and Politics. And because, with the looming apocalypse, this represents mined terrain, Dr. Pielke, who's been awarded international prizes and honorary doctorates for his work and served as director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has found himself at the center of a campaign that made him, as he puts it, the Voldemort of climate science. Paradoxically, this label has nothing to do with Pielke's measured observations, delivered with the beautiful clarity of a true scientist, but solely with the veritable religious furor that activists and world-savers have brought to the debate. This position of Pielke's is based on a timeless scientific ethos, which never allows itself to become aligned with any cause - knowing that the cost of such activism is sacrificing science's integrity. On the other hand, the liminal position between Science and Politics has made him highly sensitive - so when Mary Douglas' name comes up in the conversation, he's immediately familiar with her institutional theory and mentions Steve Rayner's work, appropriately titled The Social Construction of Ignorance, explaining that institutions are not necessarily formed to produce new knowledge, but often to keep uncomfortable or inconvenient learning out of sight. But because Pielke is stubborn enough to endure even the disruptive and inappropriate, he doesn't shy away from the adversity - he only points out at the end of the conversation; however, that contradiction is more manageable at an advanced age and that Academia might not be the ideal place for an up-and-coming Roger Pielke III’s career choices.Roger Pielke has published.Related Topics Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe

The chapter deals with the birth of metaphysics and eternal damnation, the emergence of that peculiar attitude of mind called Gnosis in the science of religion. That the Earth becomes transformed into a vale of tears is, in this sense, a dialectical necessity. That culture becomes the angel maker.If the pure sign represents the appearance of eternity, the question arises why we still concern ourselves with the decrepitude of the earthly. Why not live eternally right away?Speaker: Hopkins StanleySound-Design: Martin BurckhardtMusic: Hopkins Stanley & Martin BurckhardtFrom: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)To listen to previous chapters:Philosophy of the Machine 9Philosophy of the Machine 8Philosophy of the Machine 7Philosophy of the Machine 6Philosophy of the Machine 5Philosophy of the Machine 4Philosophy of the Machine 3Philosophy of the Machine 2Philosophy of the Machine 1hier der Link zur Publikation bei Matthes & Seitz Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe

The idea of another world arises with the pure, animate signs: Pure spirit, eternity, Platonic bodies. In contrast, the real world is a cave, an underworld realm of shadows, in which illusory existences see only reflections of their destiny: the reflection of the true, the good, and the beautiful.The chapter tells of philosophy's birth - and of how thinking thus begins to run in circles: That which philosophy considers as being or essence is the art of running in the circle of the universal machine. En kyklos paidein. But as we know, still every encyclopedia is alphabetical.Speaker: Hopkins StanleySound-Design: Martin BurckhardtMusic: Hopkins Stanley & Martin BurckhardtFrom: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)To listen to previous chapters:Philosophy of the Machine 8Philosophy of the Machine 7Philosophy of the Machine 6Philosophy of the Machine 5Philosophy of the Machine 4Philosophy of the Machine 3Philosophy of the Machine 2Philosophy of the Machine 1hier der Link zur Publikation bei Matthes & Seitz Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe

Occasionally, we must admit we belong to an older generation with worldviews shaped by our specific generational experiences. This, at least, was what crossed my mind while reading the text of a young Swedish writer considering the question of whether our present-day culture wars could be the result of an elite overproduction in the form of an educational glut from a flawed educational system; often leading its actors into the fiercest battles, not infrequently unfairly waged, for the remaining high-status jobs. The most interesting thing about this reflection is its tribute to the forgotten American political scientist James Burnham, who’d analyzed an emerging new ruling class in the forties with the publication of his Managerial Revolution – incidentally, which significantly influenced George Orwell’s writing of 1984. In his referencing of this thinker, who was a Trotskyist that metamorphosed into a staunch conservative, Malcom Kyeyune finds a diagnosis for the present as something quite comparable: an emerging new Woke elite class that distinguishes themselves morally rather than economically while teaching the world of its possibility. He notices that they are engaging in a moral economy that can be used for career advancement, social status, and economic advantage, often at the economic and career expense of the disadvantage they supposedly represent. And because Malcolm still considers himself a Marxist, our conversation (even if it lightly crosses different eras, cultures, and continents) revolves around questioning what drives this strange moral economy.Malcolm Kyeyune is a fearlessly provocative blogger and writer living in Uppsala, Sweden. He shouts for Aftonbladet but primarily for English-language venues like UnHerd, American Affair, and Compact Magazine.Correspondigs topics Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe

The chapter deals with the birth of Pythagorean mathematics - or, more precisely, the way with which mathematicians fall into the delirium of Infinity.Carnival. In that old-fashioned sense, every mathematical calculus has a strange carnivalesque side because you extract the flesh from life. Just as the tones of the music are abstracted from the body of sound, the formula dissolves an experience from reality, imposing on it a system of rules in which the highest is at the bottom, the lowest is at the top.Speaker: Hopkins StanleySound-Design: Martin BurckhardtMusic: Hopkins Stanley & Martin BurckhardtFrom: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)To listen to previous chapters:Philosophy of the Machine 7Philosophy of the Machine 6Philosophy of the Machine 5Philosophy of the Machine 4Philosophy of the Machine 3Philosophy of the Machine 2Philosophy of the Machine 1Here’s the link to the original German edition. Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe

The chapter tells of how the Machine, as socioplasty, inscribes itself on antiquity - how it becomes an ideal of personality and, as imprinted freedom, ultimately determines social relations.From then on, sacrifices were no longer made to the gods but to the Polis. It is no coincidence that taxation is the only area in which we still talk about having to make sacrifices today.Speaker: Hopkins StanleySound-Design: Martin BurckhardtMusic: Hopkins Stanley & Martin BurckhardtFrom: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)To listen to previous chapters: Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe

The sixth chapter tells how the phallic sign of the bull deity turns into an alphabetic type. But where does this story begin? There, where the god in bull form abducts Europa to Crete? Or in the labyrinth of Daedalus, where the Alpha-beast and mythical figure awaits its extinction?With the Alphabet, the twilight of the gods begins…we do not meet the riddle of creation here, but rather a nature that is spun into the type wheel of an already given understanding of the world.Speaker: Hopkins StanleySound-Design: Martin BurckhardtMusic: Hopkins Stanley & Martin BurckhardtFrom: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)To listen to previous chapters: Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe

The fifth chapter deals with the paradox that the art of memory (ars memoria) is joined by the art of forgetting (ars oblivionis) - which may explain why the beginnings of Western culture are obscure or, as the case may be, declared as “the Greek miracle.”The realization that the alphabetic sign isn’t only what it notates but also what it makes us forget.From: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)To listen to previous chapters:Philosophy of the Machine 4Philosophy of the Machine 3Philosophy of the Machine 2Philosophy of the Machine 1 Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe

The serial killer is a figure of pop culture. This may be one reason why one of the strangest cases in this field is little known to this day: the case of the French doctor Marcel Petiot, who spread the rumor in occupied Paris that he was helping people escape to South America, but then murdered his victims, most of them Jews, himself. The American author Thomas Maeder has written an excellent book that captures the figure of the psychopath in all its complexity while at the same time allowing the madness of the time to emerge. And this outlines the cosmos of the author himself. Maeder, the son of a psychoanalyst, has studied the connection between Crime and Madness and the Origins and Evolution of the Insanity Defense. And he recently just finished work on a book that tells the story of a great passion - and in which love and crime bizarrely mix. The previous conversations Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe

This chapter tells of the origin of the god Zeus, who was originally Zeus metallon, a metallurgical godhead reflecting the social practices of mining and metal extraction. Underpinning Jacques Lacan's beautiful remark: the gods are from the field of the real.Vertigo of the Proteus. Swindle of Art. That behind every realization, a universe of discarded possibilities opens up: all the possible worlds that have not been realized.From: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)To listen to previous chapters:Philosophy of the Machine 3Philosophy of the Machine 2Philosophy of the Machine 1Here’s the link to the original German edition. Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe