The Tympanic Eclipse (www.tympaniceclipse.org) Podcast
1) Making Life – exploring the philosophical implications of research that aims to create it from scratch
How do different fields try to get at the nitty gritty of what living systems require in order to fit the definition of “alive”? How have researchers from the areas of artificial life and synthetic bi...Show More
2) THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE//Bioartcamp – biologists, artists, philosophers, and the wilderness
What do you get when you bring biologists, artists, philosophers and filmmakers out into the Canadian Rocky Mountains on a 2 week research-creation summit? Why, Bioartcamp of course! Created by Dr. Je...Show More
3) THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE//Cybernetics Shows Us A World That Modern Science Can’t - What Stuff is Really Like
What is capital M Modern science? How have humans cooked it up? What is cybernetics? And how are they different? Dr. Andy Pickering ties together western traditions of binary thinking with modern s...Show More
4) It’s hard to be critical these days! Academia and Activism.
Our university departments are becoming increasingly interdisciplinary where people from different backgrounds come together to keep each other in check while tackling large issues that have a lot at ...Show More
5) THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE // My house is recording me, my house is selling me?
Smart phones, smart boards, smart homes…. every technology is apparently so darn smart, but how are we keeping up with these gadgets ourselves? Smart technologies are referred to as such because they ...Show More
6) THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE // Working to protect people we’ll never meet
What would the future be like if there were governmentally appointed people alive today who worked to protect the basic qualities of life for people who have not yet been born? Should the not-yet-exis...Show More