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I'm looking for illustrations of public space, public interaction, and public life in films. Which are the most interesting to look at? Thank you!
04 April 2024 1,069 10 View
With his tirade against advertisement and communication laying claim to the throne of philosophy, Deleuze seems to have had the lower hand: not only has philosophy lost the throne of...
03 April 2024 1,115 0 View
Cursiously, in his "You must change your life" monograph, Sloterdijk does not discuss Steiner as a contributor to the 20th-century 'ascetics of verticality'. If I'm not mistaken, Steiner is...
01 January 2024 311 0 View
Hi, I'm lookin into how street art gets priced in the gallery and auction system… any help? Thank you very much!!! mubi
05 July 2023 4,754 0 View
In a previous question, I have asked for literature about Whitehead/Bachelard. But I now realise there would also be scope for studying comparatively Whitehead and Simmel. Are you aware of any...
15 July 2021 1,118 0 View
I'm wondering if there's any plan or ongoing project to translate Hanuschek's biography of Canetti into English. Thank you for your attention.
06 June 2021 4,723 4 View
I'm looking for research and studies using Goffman's theory to approach contemporary urban life (including issues of new technologies, AI, urban safety, extremism, epidemics etc…). Obliged to...
23 March 2021 2,855 6 View
I'm far from being a Freud expert, but, my feeling is the 1950 translation by J. Strachey is in many ways outdated, when not misleading (starting form the very title of the essay, the awful choice...
11 December 2020 7,313 2 View
I'm looking for literature that brings together insights from proxemics with an interest towards the decription and understanding of urban atmospheres. Thank you.
24 September 2020 4,792 2 View
I'm interested in literature, studies and psycho-social experiments on the relation between hand-shaking and trust, with an eye onto how social distancing might affect trust. Thank you for your...
17 September 2020 6,075 9 View
I'm reading the wonderful essay by Robert Rosen, "The Schrödinger Question, What is Life?". I wonder if anybody can point me towards further discussions around this paper. Furthermore, my aim is...
13 September 2018 4,395 1 View
Any comprehensive discussion of Elias' take on Freud's social theory? Thank you if you can refer me to sources.
09 May 2018 9,197 6 View
I'm seeking contributions & advices about the possible encounter between the analysis of social formations and the study of quantum states. Thank you.
09 February 2018 6,094 17 View
Is there nay record of any published or on-going research into how to use Rene Thom's semiophysics in the social science?
09 February 2018 4,652 1 View
Whitehead's "Process and Reality" dates from 1929. In it, he argues – among many other things – that "It has been a defect in modern philosophies that they throw no light whatever on any...
01 January 1970 1,461 5 View
The Einstein-Bergson debate took place in Paris on April 6, 1922. I have come across various reconstructions, which however do not seem fully satisfactory. Can anybody kindly point me towards: a)...
01 January 1970 6,459 5 View
Hi, I'm working on a social theory of clumsy and clumsiness. I have the sense it is an unrrated phenomenon of some importance in social life. I look forward to clues, references & more. Thank...
01 January 1970 1,356 5 View
I am interested in recent discussions and reprises of animism in social theory. What is the latest anthropological knowledge of animism? How can it foster a renewal of social theory? Etc.
01 January 1970 7,111 1 View
This thread is for discussing how "elemental" approaches could be helpful today to renew and develop contemporary social theory. I first etched this line of inquiry int he attached piece, which...
01 January 1970 4,549 2 View
