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The ChatterboxSartre vs Baldwin | Joanna Kavenna, Jonathan Webber, and Marie-Elsa Bragg Podcast: Philosophy For Our Times (LS 53 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: Sartre vs Baldwin | Joanna Kavenna, Jonathan Webber, and Marie-Elsa BraggPub date: 2025-04-01Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWe take it for granted that through language and communication we can learn about the experience of others. But it remains unknown whether we can fully know what it is like to be another human being. James Baldwin and Jean-Paul Sartre take radically different approaches. For Sartre, the experience of others is unknown to us...2025-04-2544 min
Philosophy For Our TimesSartre vs Baldwin | Joanna Kavenna, Jonathan Webber, and Marie-Elsa BraggWe take it for granted that through language and communication we can learn about the experience of others. But it remains unknown whether we can fully know what it is like to be another human being. James Baldwin and Jean-Paul Sartre take radically different approaches. For Sartre, the experience of others is unknown to us. Fundamentally, we are alone with our own subjectivity. While for Baldwin, "to encounter oneself is to encounter the other; and this is love". Summing up his disagreement with Sartre he remarked: "it has always seemed to me that ideas were somewhat more real to h...2025-04-0144 minPhilosophy For Our TimesSartre vs Baldwin | Joanna Kavenna, Jonathan Webber, and Marie-Elsa BraggWe take it for granted that through language and communication we can learn about the experience of others. But it remains unknown whether we can fully know what it is like to be another human being. James Baldwin and Jean-Paul Sartre take radically different approaches. For Sartre, the experience of others is unknown to us. Fundamentally, we are alone with our own subjectivity. While for Baldwin, "to encounter oneself is to encounter the other; and this is love". Summing up his disagreement with Sartre he remarked: "it has always seemed to me that ideas were somewhat more real to h...2025-04-0144 min
FictionableJoanna Kavenna: 'We all make fictions about the future'After hearing from Helga Schubert, Ben Sorgiovanni, Julian George and Rachida Lamrabet, we bring this Winter series of podcasts to a close with Joanna Kavenna and her short story Notes on the Future.Kavenna tells us how this story was born from an obsession with patterns and a robust detachment from her characters."I like to have quite questing narrators," she says, "who are desperately trying to find meaning in a world that keeps depriving them of meaning. Which is probably quite autobiographical."When you’re writing, Kavenna continues, you’re c...2025-02-2327 min
Philosophy For Our TimesThe danger of self reflection | John Vervaeke, Isabel Millar, Frank Furedi and Joanna KavennaIn search of oneselfShould we see self-knowledge as an aim not only misguided, but actively dangerous? Is self-knowledge in fact impossible for as Nietzsche argued we have to use the self to uncover the self? Or is self-reflection a vital and rewarding activity that uncovers meaning and improves our ability to act well in the world?Joanna Kavenna hosts this debate on how our contemporary culture is influenced, shaped and potentially misinformed by our most recent self-help culture. Joining her are Frank Furedi, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent, John V...2024-12-1850 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe danger of self reflection | John Vervaeke, Isabel Millar, Frank Furedi and Joanna KavennaIn search of oneselfShould we see self-knowledge as an aim not only misguided, but actively dangerous? Is self-knowledge in fact impossible for as Nietzsche argued we have to use the self to uncover the self? Or is self-reflection a vital and rewarding activity that uncovers meaning and improves our ability to act well in the world?Joanna Kavenna hosts this debate on how our contemporary culture is influenced, shaped and potentially misinformed by our most recent self-help culture. Joining her are Frank Furedi, an emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Kent, John V...2024-12-1850 min
In Conversation with Nathalie Nahai145. Is AI Stripping Our Rights To Liberty, Privacy & Self-determination? / Joanna KavennaIn this final episode of the season, I speak with Joanna Kavenna - an English novelist, essayist and travel writer of Welsh extraction, who has written six books which explore themes of history, travel, reality and society.Having grown up in Britain, and lived in the US, France, Germany, China, Sri Lanka, Scandinavia, Italy and the Baltic states, Joanna is the author of several critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Ice Museum, Inglorious, Come to the Edge, A Field Guide to Reality and – most recently - Zed. Her novel Inglorious won the Orange Award for New Writ...2024-11-171h 07Philosophy For Our TimesIn search of the 'Self' | David Chalmers, Ed Stafford, Joanna KavennaIn search of ourselvesIs the 'self' a useful category, philosophically, psychologically, in our everyday lives? What might it help us do? And where do we find ourselves?Join our mixed panel of speakers as they approach this question from their different points of view - Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers, English explorer and survivalist Ed Stafford and novelist Joanna Kavenna. Recording of this conversation in 2017 was partly corrupted and the audio has been restored as best as possible. The discussion does not resolve this age-old question but rather plays...2024-10-2428 minPhilosophy For Our TimesIn search of the 'Self' | David Chalmers, Ed Stafford, Joanna KavennaIn search of ourselvesIs the 'self' a useful category, philosophically, psychologically, in our everyday lives? What might it help us do? And where do we find ourselves?Join our mixed panel of speakers as they approach this question from their different points of view - Australian philosopher and cognitive scientist David Chalmers, English explorer and survivalist Ed Stafford and novelist Joanna Kavenna. Recording of this conversation in 2017 was partly corrupted and the audio has been restored as best as possible. The discussion does not resolve this age-old question but rather plays...2024-10-2428 min
A Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally BayleyA Reading Life, A Writing Life in ConversationA special episode this week, as we join Sally at Brasenose College in a conversation titled ‘A Reading Life, A Writing Life’, with fellow writers Aida Edemariam and Joanna Kavenna. Join them for a discussion on memory, storytelling, and the porous boundaries between reality and fiction.
Aida is a writer and journalist whose debut book The Wife’s Tale received the Royal Society of Literature’s Ondaatje Award. More information on her and her work can be found here: https://www.rcwlitagency.com/authors/edemariam-aida/
Joanna, whose 2016 novel A Field Guide to Reality has appeared in a pre...2024-03-071h 07Philosophy For Our TimesThe limits of knowledge | Rupert Sheldrake, Suchitra Sebastian, Tommy CurryHave we entered a post-knowledge era? Or was the idea that we can attain knowledge misleading in the first place? Looking for a link we mentioned? Find it here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe acquisition of knowledge has been a central factor driving advance. And since Descartes, Western thought has placed the question of what we know, and how we know what we know, at the centre of philosophy. But might this focus on knowledge be a mistake? Feminist and postmodernist critics argue that in seeking to validate knowledge philosophers have merely sought to justify t...2024-01-0241 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe limits of knowledge | Rupert Sheldrake, Suchitra Sebastian, Tommy CurryHave we entered a post-knowledge era? Or was the idea that we can attain knowledge misleading in the first place? Looking for a link we mentioned? Find it here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe acquisition of knowledge has been a central factor driving advance. And since Descartes, Western thought has placed the question of what we know, and how we know what we know, at the centre of philosophy. But might this focus on knowledge be a mistake? Feminist and postmodernist critics argue that in seeking to validate knowledge philosophers have merely sought to justify t...2024-01-0241 minPhilosophy For Our TimesTaking leave of reason | Joanna Kavenna, Rory Sutherland, Rebecca RoacheIs rationality as vital as we think?Looking for a link we mentioned? Find it here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesPhilosophers from Spinoza and Hegel to Bertrand Russell argued that logic and reason are the key to understanding the world. But is this a fundamental error? After all, recent studies show that reason does not lead to more successful outcomes in business or personal relationships. Should we abandon the idea that reason is the key either to truth or successful action? Or should we see reason as vital to follow through the consequences of our beli...2023-11-2845 minPhilosophy For Our TimesTaking leave of reason | Joanna Kavenna, Rory Sutherland, Rebecca RoacheIs rationality as vital as we think?Looking for a link we mentioned? Find it here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesPhilosophers from Spinoza and Hegel to Bertrand Russell argued that logic and reason are the key to understanding the world. But is this a fundamental error? After all, recent studies show that reason does not lead to more successful outcomes in business or personal relationships. Should we abandon the idea that reason is the key either to truth or successful action? Or should we see reason as vital to follow through the consequences of our beli...2023-11-2845 min
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teki teko[epub] free Download Zed: A Novel by Joanna Kavenna [epub] free Download Zed: A Novel by Joanna Kavenna Read Online Zed: A Novel by Joanna Kavenna is a great book to read and that's why I recommend reading or downloading ebook Zed: A Novel for free in any format with visit the link button below. **Read Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/49886217-zed **Download Book Here ==> https://kesusuberi.blogspot.com/49886217-zed Book Synopsis : From the winner of the Orange Award for New Writing comes a blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media and tech corporation that knows exactly what...2023-09-0100 minA Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally BayleyA Field Guide to RealitySally is reading A Field Guide to Reality, the debut novel by the Granta Best of Young British author Joanna Kavenna, originally published in 2016 and set in a surreal, quantum alternative Oxford University.
Sally will be in conversation with Joanna Kavenna and fellow writer Elizabeth Lowry at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford, from 6pm on September 5th. They will discuss many of the themes of the podcast; reading, writing and the intersection with life and living - and it's free to attend! More details here:
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You can f...2023-08-2908 minA Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally BayleyThe ChosenStarting a new book is like starting a new relationship, and Sally is reading Elizabeth Lowry's The Chosen, a ghost story and a love story about Thomas Hardy and his estranged wife.
Sally will be in conversation with Elizabeth Lowry and fellow writer Joanna Kavenna at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford, from 6pm on September 5th. They will discuss many of the themes of the podcast; reading, writing and the intersection with life and living - and it's free to attend! More details here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/s-bayley-e-lowry-and-j-kavenna-a-reading-life-a-writing-life-tickets-688044298017
Elizabeth Lowry's The C...2023-08-2815 minA Reading Life, A Writing Life, with Sally BayleySally talks to Will Self Part TwoThis is the second half of the chat between Sally and Will Self, held at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford, in which they discuss the German emigré writer WG Sebald, their reading and writing habits, parenthood, children and eccentric families.
Sally is hosting another evening of literary chat with friends and fellow writers Joanna Kavenna and Elizabeth Lowry, also at Blackwell's Bookshop in Oxford, from 6pm on September 5th. They will discuss many of the themes of the podcast; reading, writing and the intersection with life and living - and it's free to attend! More details here:
2023-08-2337 min
London Review Bookshop PodcastPolly Barton & Amelia Abraham: Porn An Oral HistoryA landmark work of oral history written in the spirit of Nell Dunn, Porn: An Oral History (Fitzcarraldo Editions) is a thrilling, thought-provoking, revelatory, revealing, joyfully informative and informal exploration of a subject that has always retained an element of the taboo. ‘Polly Barton is a brilliant, learned and daring writer,’ writes Joanna Kavenna, author of ZED. She was in conversation, brilliantly, learnedly and daringly, with Amelia Abraham, author of Queer Intentions (Picador). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2023-06-2159 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe happiness delusion | Aaron Bastani, Paul Dolan, Joanna KavennaIs our focus on happiness making us unhappy?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes"Oh happiness! Our being’s end and aim!” claimed Alexander Pope. Now, a few centuries later, it's not just smiling faces on billboards, some governments have made happiness measures a central goal. 89% of young people in their twenties think life has no purpose other than happiness. But might this be a fundamental error? Income in the West has gone up three fold since the 1950's, but those who say they are unhappy has not fallen, inste...2023-06-0643 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe happiness delusion | Aaron Bastani, Paul Dolan, Joanna KavennaIs our focus on happiness making us unhappy?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes"Oh happiness! Our being’s end and aim!” claimed Alexander Pope. Now, a few centuries later, it's not just smiling faces on billboards, some governments have made happiness measures a central goal. 89% of young people in their twenties think life has no purpose other than happiness. But might this be a fundamental error? Income in the West has gone up three fold since the 1950's, but those who say they are unhappy has not fallen, inste...2023-06-0643 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe key to consciousness | Donald Hoffman, Hannah Critchlow, Sam ColemanIs materialism a fundamental mistake?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe relationship between the individual human subject and the world was once the central focus of Western philosophy. Modern neuroscience has instead tended to assume that the world is purely material and physical, and the problem of consciousness a question of how to generate thought from matter. Yet, we are no closer to solving the deep puzzle of consciousness and many argue that the American philosopher Thomas Nagel is right when he maintains that the question of consciousness...2023-05-3042 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe key to consciousness | Donald Hoffman, Hannah Critchlow, Sam ColemanIs materialism a fundamental mistake?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe relationship between the individual human subject and the world was once the central focus of Western philosophy. Modern neuroscience has instead tended to assume that the world is purely material and physical, and the problem of consciousness a question of how to generate thought from matter. Yet, we are no closer to solving the deep puzzle of consciousness and many argue that the American philosopher Thomas Nagel is right when he maintains that the question of consciousness...2023-05-3042 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe good and the evil│Tommy Curry, Massimo Pigliucci, Joanna KavennaCan we make ultimate moral judgements?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFor a couple of millenia in the West we have judged people and their actions by the standards of good and evil. But, from Mother Theresa to Winston Churchill the notion that an individual is simply good is hard to sustain. Almost all claim to be good. Even the Nazis believed they were on a moral crusade against the evils of corruption and deceit, managing to enlist the Catholic church in support. And, from the Crusades to 9/11, s...2023-05-0955 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe good and the evil│Tommy Curry, Massimo Pigliucci, Joanna KavennaCan we make ultimate moral judgements?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFor a couple of millenia in the West we have judged people and their actions by the standards of good and evil. But, from Mother Theresa to Winston Churchill the notion that an individual is simply good is hard to sustain. Almost all claim to be good. Even the Nazis believed they were on a moral crusade against the evils of corruption and deceit, managing to enlist the Catholic church in support. And, from the Crusades to 9/11, s...2023-05-0955 minThe ValmyIs our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon Blackburn Podcast: Philosophy For Our Times Episode: Is our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon BlackburnRelease date: 2023-03-14Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationShould we think of morality in terms of objective truth or social consensus?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesOnce the fashion of a postmodern age, moral relativism has always had its detractors, many of them religious. But now a new breed of atheist celebrity think...2023-03-1548 minPhilosophy For Our TimesIs our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon BlackburnShould we think of morality in terms of objective truth or social consensus?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesOnce the fashion of a postmodern age, moral relativism has always had its detractors, many of them religious. But now a new breed of atheist celebrity thinkers, from Sam Harris to Peter Singer, are making claims for the existence of absolute moral truths. Critics argue that like authoritarian moralists of the past, they use so-called 'objective' morality to shore up to their own prejudices and silence dissent. Firebrand p...2023-03-1448 minPhilosophy For Our TimesIs our search for an objective morality misguided? | Slavoj Žižek, Joanna Kavenna, Simon BlackburnShould we think of morality in terms of objective truth or social consensus?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesOnce the fashion of a postmodern age, moral relativism has always had its detractors, many of them religious. But now a new breed of atheist celebrity thinkers, from Sam Harris to Peter Singer, are making claims for the existence of absolute moral truths. Critics argue that like authoritarian moralists of the past, they use so-called 'objective' morality to shore up to their own prejudices and silence dissent. Firebrand p...2023-03-1448 minPhilosophy For Our TimesCan art uncover the essence of the world? | Janne Teller, Isy Suttie, Paul Muldoon, James TartagliaShould we see art as a means of getting closer to the essence of what it is to be alive?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesArt is most often seen as an adornment to everyday life. An entertainment, a delightful distraction perhaps, but not an uncovering of the essential character of the world. To uncover reality, we instead focus on accurate description and the discovery of facts. Yet these descriptions frequently do not settle the matter and can often lead to conflict and dispute, and all the while w...2023-02-1447 minPhilosophy For Our TimesCan art uncover the essence of the world? | Janne Teller, Isy Suttie, Paul Muldoon, James TartagliaShould we see art as a means of getting closer to the essence of what it is to be alive?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesArt is most often seen as an adornment to everyday life. An entertainment, a delightful distraction perhaps, but not an uncovering of the essential character of the world. To uncover reality, we instead focus on accurate description and the discovery of facts. Yet these descriptions frequently do not settle the matter and can often lead to conflict and dispute, and all the while w...2023-02-1447 min
The Village Podcast from The BookshelfThis is Our Year (along with all the others)Welcome to 2023! Steph and Candice round up a few of their hopes for the new year and what they will be focusing on. Not resolutions per say, but plans. Tell us your reading or non-reading resolutions for this year by sending us an email at podcast@bookshelf.ca. Books My Hygge Home: How To Make Your Home Your Happy Place by Meik Wiking Dreamcatcher, Song of Susannah, The Dark Tower, & Under The Dome by Stephen King Jonathan Strange and Mr Norell by Susanna Clarke The Annotated American...2023-01-0655 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe trauma of the everyday | Joanna Kavenna, Ian Parker, Sarah Garfinkel, Mark SalterHave mundane setbacks become catastrophic? Our experts discuss. Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesTrauma was traditionally associated with events such as war, assault and natural disasters. Now it is increasingly used to describe everyday experiences like personal criticism or romantic rejection, and of becoming an empty therapeutic buzzword. Some psychologists argue that we risk undermining diagnoses of serious disorders by treating the mundane as the catastrophic, at the same time as making us less resilient.Should we stop describing everyday setbacks as trauma? O...2022-11-1544 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe trauma of the everyday | Joanna Kavenna, Ian Parker, Sarah Garfinkel, Mark SalterHave mundane setbacks become catastrophic? Our experts discuss. Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesTrauma was traditionally associated with events such as war, assault and natural disasters. Now it is increasingly used to describe everyday experiences like personal criticism or romantic rejection, and of becoming an empty therapeutic buzzword. Some psychologists argue that we risk undermining diagnoses of serious disorders by treating the mundane as the catastrophic, at the same time as making us less resilient.Should we stop describing everyday setbacks as trauma? O...2022-11-1544 minPhilosophy For Our TimesIs moral responsibility an illusion? | Galen Strawson, Massimo Pigliucci, Sarah GarfinkelAre we incarcerating the innocent?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesNote: this episode was recorded live at our philosophy festival HowTheLightGetsIn.Some argue behaviour is a product of our genes. Others that upbringing and environment play the primary role in determining who we are. So do we carry no responsibility for our actions? Courts have on occasion made judgments in this light. In 2006 Bradley Waldroup was acquitted of murder because he was found to have an unusual variant of a 'warrior gene' and to have been a...2022-10-2543 minPhilosophy For Our TimesIs moral responsibility an illusion? | Galen Strawson, Massimo Pigliucci, Sarah GarfinkelAre we incarcerating the innocent?Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesNote: this episode was recorded live at our philosophy festival HowTheLightGetsIn.Some argue behaviour is a product of our genes. Others that upbringing and environment play the primary role in determining who we are. So do we carry no responsibility for our actions? Courts have on occasion made judgments in this light. In 2006 Bradley Waldroup was acquitted of murder because he was found to have an unusual variant of a 'warrior gene' and to have been a...2022-10-2543 minThe Village Podcast from The BookshelfWhat We Learned in Summer 2022Welcome back to The Village. Steph and Candice do some book reviews from the summer of 2022 while also talking music, algorithms, and what we learned this summer Books Sweet Valley High Books 1-12 by Francine Pascal (Apple iBooks Store link) Recollections of my Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit (other books by Solnit) Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman Zed by Joanna Kavenna Son of Elsewhere: A Memoir in Pieces by Elaine Abdelmahmoud Rehearsals for Living by Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson2022-09-1159 minPhilosophy For Our TimesA world of illusions | James Ladyman, Peter Atkins, Joanna KavennaCan we be sure there is a physical reality? Our philosophers and scientists debate.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes No-one who has ever stepped on a Lego brick could doubt the reality of physical objects. Yet from Heraclitus to George Berkeley, many philosophers claimed to have disproven the existence of things. Now even high-energy particle physicists are inclined to agree and describe material stuff as energy, or even as mathematical constructs. Could the world truly be made up of fields and processes, rather than physical stuff? Or is sc...2022-08-3045 minPhilosophy For Our TimesA world of illusions | James Ladyman, Peter Atkins, Joanna KavennaCan we be sure there is a physical reality? Our philosophers and scientists debate.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes No-one who has ever stepped on a Lego brick could doubt the reality of physical objects. Yet from Heraclitus to George Berkeley, many philosophers claimed to have disproven the existence of things. Now even high-energy particle physicists are inclined to agree and describe material stuff as energy, or even as mathematical constructs. Could the world truly be made up of fields and processes, rather than physical stuff? Or is sc...2022-08-3045 minPhilosophy For Our TimesDoes ultimate truth exist? | Rupert Sheldrake, Güneş Taylor, Peter Atkins, Hilary LawsonAre scientific metaphors a real description of reality? A discussion between our scientists and philosophers.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom string theory to the Big Bang, black holes to dark matter, our big scientific theories are increasingly conveyed through metaphor. Yet from Newton to the latest theories, science is largely founded on mathematics.Could Newton have chosen to call forces 'spirits' and Einstein have called fields 'matrices'? And if so would our understanding of reality have been profoundly different?Fellow at the Francis C...2022-06-2145 minPhilosophy For Our TimesDoes ultimate truth exist? | Rupert Sheldrake, Güneş Taylor, Peter Atkins, Hilary LawsonAre scientific metaphors a real description of reality? A discussion between our scientists and philosophers.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom string theory to the Big Bang, black holes to dark matter, our big scientific theories are increasingly conveyed through metaphor. Yet from Newton to the latest theories, science is largely founded on mathematics.Could Newton have chosen to call forces 'spirits' and Einstein have called fields 'matrices'? And if so would our understanding of reality have been profoundly different?Fellow at the Francis C...2022-06-2145 minPhilosophy For Our TimesArt beyond the sublime | Rupert Sheldrake, Minna Salami, Olivia Fane, Joanna KavennaHas contemporary culture abandoned the quest for the sublime? Our experts try to find out.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom Rembrandt to Rothko, Mozart to Wagner, art and music have the capacity to give us a feeling of the sublime and transcendent wonder. Yet in contemporary culture the sublime is rare and for the most part not even desired. Few would claim that watching the WAP video or Takashi Murakami's art are gateways to the sublime.What really is the sublime and where can we f...2022-03-2944 minPhilosophy For Our TimesArt beyond the sublime | Rupert Sheldrake, Minna Salami, Olivia Fane, Joanna KavennaHas contemporary culture abandoned the quest for the sublime? Our experts try to find out.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFrom Rembrandt to Rothko, Mozart to Wagner, art and music have the capacity to give us a feeling of the sublime and transcendent wonder. Yet in contemporary culture the sublime is rare and for the most part not even desired. Few would claim that watching the WAP video or Takashi Murakami's art are gateways to the sublime.What really is the sublime and where can we f...2022-03-2944 minPhilosophy For Our TimesAll the things we cannot say | Ray Tallis, Hilary Lawson, Joanna KavennaCan language ever truly capture reality? Is there anything unsayable? Listen to what the experts have to say.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence", famously claimed the philosopher Wittgenstein. He primarily had in mind the relationship between language and the world, and more generally the very idea of metaphysics. Yet, a century after Wittgenstein's conclusion, many continue to wildly speculate about the ultimate meaning and nature of reality using our all-to-human language.Have we ignored Wittgenstein's c...2022-01-1843 minPhilosophy For Our TimesAll the things we cannot say | Ray Tallis, Hilary Lawson, Joanna KavennaCan language ever truly capture reality? Is there anything unsayable? Listen to what the experts have to say.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimes"What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence", famously claimed the philosopher Wittgenstein. He primarily had in mind the relationship between language and the world, and more generally the very idea of metaphysics. Yet, a century after Wittgenstein's conclusion, many continue to wildly speculate about the ultimate meaning and nature of reality using our all-to-human language.Have we ignored Wittgenstein's c...2022-01-1843 minPhilosophy For Our TimesDoes language make us uniquely human? | Ray Tallis, Joanna Kavenna and Jennifer AckermanHave you ever wondered if birds talk to each other like we do? Listen in to find out whether we are really all that different.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesMany think language makes us uniquely human. Are humans no different in principle from other animals and plants? Or is language profoundly different from all other forms of communication and the enabler of consciousness itself?Joining us to debate the uniqueness of human language are bestselling author of The Genius of Birds Jennifer Ackerman, philosopher and c...2021-11-0944 minPhilosophy For Our TimesDoes language make us uniquely human? | Ray Tallis, Joanna Kavenna and Jennifer AckermanHave you ever wondered if birds talk to each other like we do? Listen in to find out whether we are really all that different.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesMany think language makes us uniquely human. Are humans no different in principle from other animals and plants? Or is language profoundly different from all other forms of communication and the enabler of consciousness itself?Joining us to debate the uniqueness of human language are bestselling author of The Genius of Birds Jennifer Ackerman, philosopher and c...2021-11-0944 min
Philosophy For Our TimesReshaping The Self | Dan Zahavi, Lisa Bortolotti, Anders SandbergLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe notion that there is no self has won over philosophers and scientists since Hume argued that the self is nothing but a 'bundle of perceptions'. So is our experience of a unified, continuous self merely illusory? And if the self does exist, how should it be understood?Joining us remotely to ask whether the self is an illusion is author of Self and Other Dan Zahavi, Philosophy Professor at the University of Birmingham Lisa Bortolotti and Research Fellow at the Future of Hu...2021-03-3046 minPhilosophy For Our TimesReshaping The Self | Dan Zahavi, Lisa Bortolotti, Anders SandbergLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe notion that there is no self has won over philosophers and scientists since Hume argued that the self is nothing but a 'bundle of perceptions'. So is our experience of a unified, continuous self merely illusory? And if the self does exist, how should it be understood?Joining us remotely to ask whether the self is an illusion is author of Self and Other Dan Zahavi, Philosophy Professor at the University of Birmingham Lisa Bortolotti and Research Fellow at the Future of Hu...2021-03-3046 min
Philosophy For Our TimesMorality Before Metaphysics | Simon Blackburn, Raymond Tallis, Joanna KavennaShould we prioritize morality over scientific research? Our experts discuss.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesAre our descriptions of the world independent from our morality? And should philosophy aim to interpret the world or to change it?On today’s episode we’re discussing the relationship between morality and metaphysics and whether putting morality first is a good idea when proposing theories. To help us debate the role of morality we’re joined remotely by cultural critic and polymath Raymond Tallis, award-winning novelist Joanna Kavenna a...2020-12-0848 minPhilosophy For Our TimesMorality Before Metaphysics | Simon Blackburn, Raymond Tallis, Joanna KavennaShould we prioritize morality over scientific research? Our experts discuss.Looking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesAre our descriptions of the world independent from our morality? And should philosophy aim to interpret the world or to change it?On today’s episode we’re discussing the relationship between morality and metaphysics and whether putting morality first is a good idea when proposing theories. To help us debate the role of morality we’re joined remotely by cultural critic and polymath Raymond Tallis, award-winning novelist Joanna Kavenna a...2020-12-0848 min
GrantaJoanna Kavenna, The Granta Podcast, Ep. 99Joanna Kavenna joins Josie Mitchell to discuss Zed – a sci-fi dystopia exploring our fears about the psychological cost of surveillance capitalism. Early in 2020, newly under lockdown, they discussed the psychic threat posed by today’s tech companies, the blurring of citizen and consumer, and the early optimism of cyberspace. You can read an excerpt from the novel on our website for free, and subscribers can also read ‘The Perfect Companion’, an AI short story that journeys further into the world of Zed. 2020-11-1123 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe Margins of Language | Stanley Fish, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Hilary LawsonLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe use language every day to communicate with others and understand the world. Yet, from metaphors to the mystical, there are many things we seem unable to directly express.To help us explore the limits of language we are joined by eminent literary critic Stanley Fish, Wittgenstein expert Genia Schönbaumsfeld and post-realist philosopher Hilary Lawson. Joanna Kavenna hosts.There are thousands of big ideas to discover at IAI.tv – videos, articles, and courses waiting for you to explore. Find out more...2020-06-0241 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe Margins of Language | Stanley Fish, Genia Schönbaumsfeld, Hilary LawsonLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWe use language every day to communicate with others and understand the world. Yet, from metaphors to the mystical, there are many things we seem unable to directly express.To help us explore the limits of language we are joined by eminent literary critic Stanley Fish, Wittgenstein expert Genia Schönbaumsfeld and post-realist philosopher Hilary Lawson. Joanna Kavenna hosts.There are thousands of big ideas to discover at IAI.tv – videos, articles, and courses waiting for you to explore. Find out more...2020-06-0241 min
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Philosophy For Our TimesThe World That Disappeared | Peter Atkins, James Ladyman, Joanna KavennaLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesNo-one who has ever stepped on a Lego brick could doubt the reality of physical objects. Yet from Heraclitus to George Berkeley, many philosophers claimed to have disproven the existence of things. Could the world truly be made up of fields and processes, rather than physical stuff? Are the everyday objects that surround us an illusion? To help us discuss the existence of things we are joined by three leading thinkers: chemist Peter Atkins, philosopher of science, James Ladyman and novelist Joanna Kavenna.2020-03-2443 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe World That Disappeared | Peter Atkins, James Ladyman, Joanna KavennaLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesNo-one who has ever stepped on a Lego brick could doubt the reality of physical objects. Yet from Heraclitus to George Berkeley, many philosophers claimed to have disproven the existence of things. Could the world truly be made up of fields and processes, rather than physical stuff? Are the everyday objects that surround us an illusion? To help us discuss the existence of things we are joined by three leading thinkers: chemist Peter Atkins, philosopher of science, James Ladyman and novelist Joanna Kavenna.2020-03-2443 min
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Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
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Author: Joanna Kavenna
Narrator: Elliot Hill
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 14 hours 8 minutes
Release date: January 14, 2020
Genres: Comedy, Satire & Parody
Publisher's Summary:
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A blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we do - before we do. Self-anointed guru of the Digital Age, Guy Matthias, has become one of the world's most powerful and influential figures. Untaxed and ungoverned, his company ‘Beetle' essentially operates beyond the control of Governments or the law. But trouble is never far away, an...2019-12-054h 05
Download Latest Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, SuspenseZED by Joanna KavennaPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/397810 to listen full audiobooks. Title: ZED Author: Joanna Kavenna Narrator: Guy Mott Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 16 hours 5 minutes Release date: December 5, 2019 Genres: Suspense Publisher's Summary: A blistering, satirical novel about life under a global media corporation that knows exactly what we think, what we want, and what we do - before we do. Self-anointed guru of the Digital Age, Guy Matthias, has become one of the world's most powerful and influential figures. Untaxed and ungoverned, his company ‘Beetle' essentially operates beyond the control of Governments or the law. But trouble is never far aw...2019-12-0503 min
LSE PodcastsThis Is Not Propaganda [Audio]Speaker(s): Joanna Kavenna, Dr Martin Moore, Peter Pomerantsev | Post-truth, disinformation, bots, trolls, ISIS, Putin, Trump….we live in a world of media manipulation run amock. To understand the new propaganda, and what to do about it, we need to grasp both the cultural and technological dynamics in play, which is what this panel sets out to do. Peter Pomerantsev, author of This is Not Propaganda – Adventures in the War Against Reality will be joined by Joanna Kavenna, author of new tech-dystopian novel Zed, and Dr Martin Moore of Kings College London, author of Democracy Hacked: How Technology is Destabilising Glob...2019-11-051h 25
Philosophy For Our TimesThe Prejudice of Facts | Barry Barnes, Joanna Kavenna, John EllisLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesIn a world obsessed with Trump, alternative facts have not had a great press. But it is a century and more since Nietzsche claimed 'there are no facts, only interpretations' - and fifty years since Thomas Kuhn argued that facts were theory dependent. Is an insistence on 'the facts' the dogmatic prejudice of believers in their particular truth? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, Barry Barnes, Joanna Kavenna and John Ellis explore the prejudice of facts.There are thousands of big i...2019-09-1737 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe Prejudice of Facts | Barry Barnes, Joanna Kavenna, John EllisLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesIn a world obsessed with Trump, alternative facts have not had a great press. But it is a century and more since Nietzsche claimed 'there are no facts, only interpretations' - and fifty years since Thomas Kuhn argued that facts were theory dependent. Is an insistence on 'the facts' the dogmatic prejudice of believers in their particular truth? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, Barry Barnes, Joanna Kavenna and John Ellis explore the prejudice of facts.There are thousands of big i...2019-09-1737 min
Philosophy For Our TimesAre You An Illusion? | Julian Baggini, Joanna Kavenna, Jan Westerhoff, Silvia JonasLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe self is an illusion, our passions a by-product of the brain. Or so neuroscientists and philosophers would have us believe. Is dismissing the self a mistake driven by the desire to uphold a purely material universe? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, author of A Field Guide to Reality Joanna Kavenna, Oxford University metaphysician Jan Westerhoff, philosopher Silvia Jonas and author of The Ego Trick Julian Baggini set out in search of the self.There are thousands of big ideas t...2019-07-2343 minPhilosophy For Our TimesAre You An Illusion? | Julian Baggini, Joanna Kavenna, Jan Westerhoff, Silvia JonasLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe self is an illusion, our passions a by-product of the brain. Or so neuroscientists and philosophers would have us believe. Is dismissing the self a mistake driven by the desire to uphold a purely material universe? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, author of A Field Guide to Reality Joanna Kavenna, Oxford University metaphysician Jan Westerhoff, philosopher Silvia Jonas and author of The Ego Trick Julian Baggini set out in search of the self.There are thousands of big ideas t...2019-07-2343 min
Philosophy For Our TimesIs Oppression The Key To Creativity? | Lowkey, Joanna Kavenna, Andrew MotionLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFreedom is often seen as the vital oxygen of creativity. Yet Shakespeare worked within a framework of censorship, Don Quixote was written from prison and Leonardo argued that at 'lives on constraint and dies of freedom'. Can oppression help produce masterpieces or do the free always write the greatest poetry? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, Novelist and Author Joanna Kavenna and hip hop artist Lowkey debate creativity and constraint.There are thousands of big ideas t...2019-06-1138 minPhilosophy For Our TimesIs Oppression The Key To Creativity? | Lowkey, Joanna Kavenna, Andrew MotionLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesFreedom is often seen as the vital oxygen of creativity. Yet Shakespeare worked within a framework of censorship, Don Quixote was written from prison and Leonardo argued that at 'lives on constraint and dies of freedom'. Can oppression help produce masterpieces or do the free always write the greatest poetry? In this episode of Philosophy for our Times, former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, Novelist and Author Joanna Kavenna and hip hop artist Lowkey debate creativity and constraint.There are thousands of big ideas t...2019-06-1138 min
Arts & IdeasOrwell's 1984. A Landmark of Culture.Peter Pomerantsev, Joanna Kavenna, New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen and Dorian Lynskey join Matthew Sweet to debate George Orwell's vision of a world of surveillance, war and propaganda published in June 1949. How far does his vision of the future chime with our times and what predictions might we make of our own future ? Dorian Lynskey has written The Ministry of Truth
Joanna Kavenna's new novel Zed - a dystopian absurdist thriller is published in early July.
Peter Pomerantsev's new book This Is NOT Propaganda: Adventures in the war against reality is published in August.
Lisa Mullen has...2019-06-0653 min
Philosophy For Our TimesThe End of the Theory of Everything | John Ellis, Huw Price, Joanna KavennaLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesStephen Hawking once predicted a theory of everything by 2000. However, after decades without one he began to doubt its existence. Have we failed because no one theory can make sense of reality? Must we "employ different theories in different situations" as Hawking suggested, or is there a final theory just waiting to be discovered?There are thousands of big ideas to discover at IAI.tv – videos, articles, and courses waiting for you to explore. Find out more: https://iai.tv/podcast-offers?utm_source=podc...2018-09-0531 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe End of the Theory of Everything | John Ellis, Huw Price, Joanna KavennaLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesStephen Hawking once predicted a theory of everything by 2000. However, after decades without one he began to doubt its existence. Have we failed because no one theory can make sense of reality? Must we "employ different theories in different situations" as Hawking suggested, or is there a final theory just waiting to be discovered?There are thousands of big ideas to discover at IAI.tv – videos, articles, and courses waiting for you to explore. Find out more: https://iai.tv/podcast-offers?utm_source=podc...2018-09-0531 min
Unsound MethodsJoanna KavennaIn this week's episode we speak to novelist and essayist, Joanna Kavenna.
We talk about beginnings, finding a voice in fiction and taking a Wittgensteinian view of reality, as well as how to deal with Polar Bears while conducting research and the ways in which literature can help us understand and limit technology before the machines destroy us.
Joanna is the author of the Ice Museum: In Search of the Lost Land of Thule and A Field Guide to Reality (riverrun, 2016) as well as three other novels and non-fiction essays.
Find out more a...2018-06-0645 min
End of All Things podcastQuestioning Reality with Joanna KavennaIn this episode, Rob chats to novelist and Orange Prize winner, Joanna Kavenna about the individual experience of reality, Baudelaire, George Osborne, the British Class system and her latest work, The Field Guide to Reality. Rob and Kate Feld also argue about all things literary (and otherwise). Kate tells us what the UNESCO City of Literature designation means for Manchester and Rob forces the Times Literary Supplement Twenty Questions on her. Apologies in advance to The New Statesman.2017-11-2958 min
Reading GlassesEp 22 - Should You Throw Away Your Books by Garbage People? and Jessa Crispin Interview!This episode, Brea and Mallory discuss book politics, interview author and podcaster Jessa Crispin and solve your bathtub reading problems. Use the hashtag #PagePolitics on Twitter and Instagram to participate in online discussion! Send your thoughts to readingglassespodcast at gmail dot com. Books Mentioned - A Night In The Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson Tin Star by Cecil Castellucci The...2017-11-0235 min
Philosophy for our times | The Institute of Art and Ideas PodcastEternal Tales | Stanley Fish, Joanna Kavenna, Barry SmithWhile the world turns we think ideas, right or wrong, are eternal. Yet meaning changes over time and context. Should we conclude that, like the material world, ideas are transient and knowledge and morality passing stories? Or is the eternal in our grasp after all?
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New York Times columnist and author of 'The Trouble with Principle' Stanley Fish, philosopher of language Barry C. Smith and award-winning novelist Joanna Kavenna seek out the eternal.2016-10-1342 min
Philosophy For Our TimesEternal Tales | Stanley Fish, Joanna Kavenna, Barry SmithLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWhile the world turns we think ideas, right or wrong, are eternal. Yet meaning changes over time and context. Should we conclude that, like the material world, ideas are transient and knowledge and morality passing stories? Or is the eternal in our grasp after all? New York Times columnist and author of The Trouble with Principle Stanley Fish, philosopher of language Barry C. Smith and award-winning novelist Joanna Kavenna seek out the eternal.There are thousands of big ideas to discover a...2016-10-1342 minPhilosophy For Our TimesEternal Tales | Stanley Fish, Joanna Kavenna, Barry SmithLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesWhile the world turns we think ideas, right or wrong, are eternal. Yet meaning changes over time and context. Should we conclude that, like the material world, ideas are transient and knowledge and morality passing stories? Or is the eternal in our grasp after all? New York Times columnist and author of The Trouble with Principle Stanley Fish, philosopher of language Barry C. Smith and award-winning novelist Joanna Kavenna seek out the eternal.There are thousands of big ideas to discover a...2016-10-1342 min
Philosophy For Our TimesThe Word And The World | Paul Boghossian, Joanna Kavenna, Ray MonkLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe power of words is a wonder, and language perhaps our greatest skill. Yet the gap between the sound of a bell and its description is huge. Are the limits to language so profound that the big questions of science and philosophy are beyond us? Or can everything be said if we try hard enough? Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy Paul Boghossian, Wittgenstein biographer and philosopher Ray Monk, and award winning novelist Joanna Kavenna debate the limits of language. 2016-09-0448 min
Philosophy for our times | The Institute of Art and Ideas PodcastThe Word And The World | Paul Boghossian, Joanna Kavenna, Ray MonkThe power of words is a wonder, and language perhaps our greatest skill. Yet the gap between the sound of a bell and its description is huge. Are the limits to language so profound that the big questions of science and philosophy are beyond us? Or can everything be said if we try hard enough?
The Panel
Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy Paul Boghossian, Wittgenstein biographer and philosopher Ray Monk, and award winning novelist Joanna Kavenna debate the limits of language.
Watch the debate here: https://iai.tv/video/the-word-and-the-world2016-09-0448 minPhilosophy For Our TimesThe Word And The World | Paul Boghossian, Joanna Kavenna, Ray MonkLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesThe power of words is a wonder, and language perhaps our greatest skill. Yet the gap between the sound of a bell and its description is huge. Are the limits to language so profound that the big questions of science and philosophy are beyond us? Or can everything be said if we try hard enough? Director of the New York Institute of Philosophy Paul Boghossian, Wittgenstein biographer and philosopher Ray Monk, and award winning novelist Joanna Kavenna debate the limits of language. 2016-09-0448 min
Philosophy For Our TimesMatter And Mind | Markus Gabriel, Ray Brassier, Eva JablonkaLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesNeuroscience has enabled us to explain how the brain affects the body. Yet there is no theory to explain how the matter of the brain creates thought and experience. Is consciousness inexplicable because it is not part of the material world? Or is it somehow physical after all and within our grasp? German philosopher Markus Gabriel, philosopher and author of Nihil Unbound Ray Brassier, and evolutionary biologist Eva Jablonka seek answers. Prize winning novelist Joanna Kavenna hosts. Watch the debate here: h...2016-09-0147 min
Philosophy for our times | The Institute of Art and Ideas PodcastMatter And Mind | Markus Gabriel, Ray Brassier, Eva JablonkaNeuroscience has enabled us to explain how the brain affects the body. Yet there is no theory to explain how the matter of the brain creates thought and experience. Is consciousness inexplicable because it is not part of the material world? Or is it somehow physical after all and within our grasp?
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German philosopher Markus Gabriel, philosopher and author of Nihil Unbound Ray Brassier, and evolutionary biologist Eva Jablonka seek answers. Prize winning novelist Joanna Kavenna hosts.
Video of the debate here: https://iai.tv/video/matter-and-mind2016-09-0147 minPhilosophy For Our TimesMatter And Mind | Markus Gabriel, Ray Brassier, Eva JablonkaLooking for a link we mentioned? It's here: https://linktr.ee/philosophyforourtimesNeuroscience has enabled us to explain how the brain affects the body. Yet there is no theory to explain how the matter of the brain creates thought and experience. Is consciousness inexplicable because it is not part of the material world? Or is it somehow physical after all and within our grasp? German philosopher Markus Gabriel, philosopher and author of Nihil Unbound Ray Brassier, and evolutionary biologist Eva Jablonka seek answers. Prize winning novelist Joanna Kavenna hosts. Watch the debate here: h...2016-09-0147 min
GrantaJoanna Kavenna: The Granta Podcast, Ep. 51Continuing a series of podcasts featuring our Best of Young British Novelists, today we bring you an interview with Joanna Kavenna. Kavenna grew up in various parts of Britain and has also lived in the US, France, Germany, Scandinavia and the Baltic States. She is the author of three novels: Inglorious, The Birth of Love and Come to the Edge, and one work of non-fiction, The Ice Museum. In 2008 she was awarded the Orange Prize for New Writing. ‘Tomorrow’, which appears in the issue, is an excerpt from a forthcoming novel. Here she spoke to deputy editor Ellah Allfrey abou...2013-05-0724 min
Spring 2013 | Public lectures and events | VideoError, Lies and Adventure: The Power of LiesContributor(s): Hilary Lawson, Dr Parashkev Nachev, Dr Jaime Whyte | We have seen a gradual erosion of belief in objective truth, but in a world without truth how are we to understand lies? This second event in the series debates the nature of lies and their importance. Are lies necessarily morally wrong, and what is the relationship between lies, power and individual identity? This lecture is the second of a three-part series entitled Error, Lies and Adventure, the first talk 'Beyond Truth: Error and Adventure' will take place on 4 March. Hilary Lawson is director of the Institute of Art and...2013-03-211h 27Spring 2013 | Public lectures and events | Audio and pdfError, Lies and Adventure: The Power of LiesContributor(s): Hilary Lawson, Dr Parashkev Nachev, Dr Jaime Whyte | We have seen a gradual erosion of belief in objective truth, but in a world without truth how are we to understand lies? This second event in the series debates the nature of lies and their importance. Are lies necessarily morally wrong, and what is the relationship between lies, power and individual identity? This lecture is the second of a three-part series entitled Error, Lies and Adventure, the first talk 'Beyond Truth: Error and Adventure' will take place on 4 March. Hilary Lawson is director of the Institute of Art and...2013-03-211h 27
FT Science with Clive CooksonQuantum optics, the search for truth and online networksIn this week's podcast: We are joined by leading physicist Sir Peter Knight who talks about his research into quantum optics and photosynthesis. We hear from author Joanna Kavenna about her search for truth and her fascination with scientists and Science Mag reports on an online experiment into how social networks affect the spread of behaviour.Presented by Clive Cookson, with the FT's pharmaceuticals correspondent Andrew Jack and Diana Garnham, CEO of the Science Council.Produced by LJ Filotrani Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.2010-09-0720 min