Humane Arts Podcast
1) Identity Part Nine - Abstraction
A world filled with abstractions works to undermine our sense of self and community. This lectures explores the problem and offers a vague and likely unhelpful suggestion to look for the visceral when...Show More
2) Identity Part Eight - The Garden Of The Mind
This lecture explores the necessity of controlling what occupies our attention in a world the tends to undermine any sense of identity.
3) Identity Part Seven - The Perils Of Marketing
This lecture explores how the marketing industry exploits our insecurities and essentially makes a bad situation much worse.
4) Identity Part Six - Be Here Now
The sixth part of the identity series explores how our sense of where we are and when we are has been disrupted. ww.wescecil.com
5) Identity Part Five - The Attraction Of Abstraction
In an attempt to solve the complexities of the modern world we often look to abstractions to simplify the vast complexity we face. Understandable, but not really that helpful. For more information on...Show More
6) Identity Part IV - Country To The City
This lecture explores some of the challenges that are persented when one enters urban spaces and encounters large groups of strangers. www.wescecil.com
7) Identity Part Three - Blame The Enlightenment
The third part of the identity series explores the transition to the modern world which was given form and impetus by the thinkers of the enlightenment.
8) Identity Part Two - From Chimps To The Modern World In One Big Step
Part two of my series on identity explores the notion that identity has not really been a problem for almost anyone in the last 200,000 years. It truly is a modern problem. www.wescecil.com for infor...Show More
9) Identity - Introduction And Chimpanzees
First lecture in a new series exploring the structure, meaning, and challenges facing our experience of identity. Presented by Wesley Cecil PhD. www.wescecil.com https://www.instagram.com/humanearts/
10) Thus Spake Zarathustra Commentary Part Five
The fifth and final section of commentary on the book one of Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra. By Wesley Cecil PhD.