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Clerestory (Bryan Kam)

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Jun 1, 2021 • 58min

Thomas Kuhn Lecture: Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice (1973)

In this episode I give Kuhn's 1973 lecture "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973). There is a PDF of the lecture here. The book he discusses is The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. I found the clip of Kuhn speaking on a closely related topic in this clip from 1995.
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May 22, 2021 • 13min

Kuhn interstitial/Yeats' All Things Can Tempt Me

W. B. Yeats: All Things Can Tempt Me. Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962 book). Thomas Kuhn: "Objectivity, Value Judgment, and Theory Choice" (1973 lecture) PDF.
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May 7, 2021 • 19min

Shklovsky/Little Gidding

Viktor Shklovsky and Russian Formalism (wikipedia), and Defamiliarization/ostrananie. My Twitter thread on Shklovsky. Alexandra Berlina's Viktor Shklovsky: A Reader. LA Review of Books: Both a Fish and an Ichthyologist. Professor Caryl Emerson. "Art as Device" (1917/1919. Sometimes translated as "Art as Technique"): PDF, including commentary on translation. T. S. Eliot: "Little Gidding" (1942).
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Apr 27, 2021 • 28min

Althusser/Hardy's At Castle Boterel

Norbert Elias: The Civilizing Process (1939). Richard Wrangham: Two types of aggression in human evolution (2018). Louis Althusser: Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (1970). My thread on Thomas Kuhn. Thomas Kuhn: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962). Stanford Encyclopedia: Scientific Revolutions (2017). Thomas Hardy: At Castle Boterel (1913).
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Apr 20, 2021 • 28min

Tao Te Ching/Chuang Tzu/Keats

The Tao Te Ching, translated by Derek Lin and Stephen Addiss/Stanley Lombardo A. C. Graham: Chuang-tzǔ: The Inner Chapters Harold D. Roth: A Companion to Angus C. Graham's Chuang Tzu John Keats: "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be"
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Apr 13, 2021 • 31min

Basin & Range/The Air Plant

John McPhee: Annals of the Former World (1998). Emma Darwin: This is Not a Book About Charles Darwin (2019). Indrė Žliobaitė: On the nature of time information in the fossil record (2020). Charles Darwin: The Origin of Species (2nd edition, 1859). Hart Crane: The Air Plant (1932). Thomas Hardy: Beeny Cliff (1913). I host salons at The Interintellect; my next one will be on collaboration and networked thought on 2021-04-28. Thanks for listening and I'd love to hear from you. You can find me on twitter, on clubhouse, or at my website. My blog is here. Thanks again to Patricia, Isabela, and JP :)

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