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STEMcastSTEMcast Episode 39 | “Curiosity is Edgework”: Channeling our Curiosity in Research with Profs. Dani Basset and Perry ZurnWelcome back to STEMCast: Beyond the Lab! In our most interdisciplinary episode to date, we invited Professors Perry Zurn (Department of Philosophy at the American University) and Dani Basset (Department of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania) to discuss their individual research careers and their most prominent topic of collaboration: curiosity. Join us as we learn everything from mathematical models of curiosity to social dilemmas that could benefit from them!In this episode, we cover:(01:38) Dani’s scientific curiosities(4:15) Perry’s scientific curiosities(7:24) How did you both start working together?(9...
2026-01-0946 min
Scientific Sense ®Prof. Dani Bassett of UPenn and Prof. Perry Zurn of American University on curiosity.Scientific Sense ® by Gill Eapen: Prof. Dani Bassett is Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, Neurology, and Psychiatry. They are also an external professor of the Santa Fe Institute. Bassett is most well-known for blending neural and systems engineering to identify fundamental mechanisms of cognition and disease in human brain networks. Prof. Perry Zurn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University. He researches primarily in political philosophy, critical theory, and has collaborated in psychology and network neuroscience. He is especially interested in the politics o...
2025-09-1757 min
Relevant or IrrelevantBONUS: The Three Styles Of CuriosityBONUS DISCUSSION: Dr. Perry Zurn, visiting professor of Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies, at Cornell University, and provost associate professor at American University (Massachusetts), is the guest for "ROI" episode 618 to discuss: The Three Styles Of Curiosity.The host for this edition is Jay Swords, and the history buffs are Brett Monnard and Rick Sweet.Opinions expressed in this program are those of the hosts and the guest(s), and not necessarily those of KALA-FM or St. Ambrose University. This program is recorded at KALA-FM, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, USA!
2025-07-1215 minRelevant or IrrelevantThe Three Styles Of CuriosityDr. Perry Zurn, visiting professor of Feminist Gender and Sexuality Studies, at Cornell University, and provost associate professor at American University (Massachusetts), is the guest for "ROI" episode 618 to discuss: The Three Styles Of Curiosity.The host for this edition is Jay Swords, and the history buffs are Brett Monnard and Rick Sweet.Opinions expressed in this program are those of the hosts and the guest(s), and not necessarily those of KALA-FM or St. Ambrose University. This program is recorded at KALA-FM, St. Ambrose University, Davenport, Iowa, USA!
2025-07-1230 min
Queer Lit“Trans Life and Story-Led Theory” with Perry ZurnThe beauty of trans life is that it flourishes in unexpected spaces. This fortnight’s guest Perry Zurn has written a beautiful book about how trans life creates spaces for itself in the cracks, at the edges and in other liminal spaces. We speak about trans life at the university, trans poetics, and the problematisation of trans inclusion. Perry tells me about how he was able to rethink methodologies and the role of the researcher by working with story-led theory. Tune in now to attune yourself to trans thinking, histories and ourchives. References:Per...
2025-06-0344 min
Deep ResilienceWhen Life Hits Hard, Start with CuriosityWhen Life Hits Hard, Start with CuriosityWhat if the single most powerful skill in difficult times… isn’t having all the answers, but learning to ask better questions?In this episode, we explore how curiosity can transform the way we meet uncertainty, anxiety, and life’s inevitable challenges.You’ll discover why the brain defaults to overthinking or avoidance when life feels unstable—and how curiosity interrupts that cycle, helping us reconnect with clarity, calm, and possibility.Drawing from fascinating research at Harvard and Penn State, you’ll learn how curious mind...
2025-05-0614 min
BRAINLANDCURIOUS MINDS: What good is curiosity?In this podcast philosopher Perry Zurn discusses ‘Curious Minds’, the book he wrote with his twin Danni Bassett. We talk about their unusual upbinging, home schooled in a large family that encouraged curiosity, then negotiating the more restrictive world of academia. They view curiosity as ‘edgework’, an exploration of connections between ‘nodes’ of information. We discuss ‘busybodies’,’ hunters’ and ‘dancers’. three curious behaviours they identified, and research evidence that supports them. The effect of language on curiosity gets a mention (Eg differences between First Nation and modern languages), and how curiosity plays out in non-verbal domains (such a sport and visual art) with a d...
2024-11-2135 min
Simplifying ComplexityHow curiosity worksToday we’re joined by Dani S. Bassett, J. Peter Skirkanich Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, and Perry Zurn, Visiting Associate Professor of Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Cornell University and Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University. In today’s episode, Dani and Perry explore the concept of curiosity. Connect: Simplifying Complexity on Twitter Sean Brady on Twitter Sean Brady on LinkedIn Brady Heywood website This show is produc...
2024-10-1443 min
The IntellectualOn Trans Philosophy and troubling a Western-dominant sense of trans. Podcast: University of Minnesota PressEpisode: On Trans Philosophy and troubling a Western-dominant sense of trans.Pub date: 2024-09-26Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationAcross language and politics, feminism and phenomenology, and decolonial theory, Trans Philosophy addresses trans worldmaking in all its beauty and mundanity. The volume’s four editors, Perry Zurn, Andrea J. Pitts, Talia Mae Bettcher, and PJ DiPietro focus on the contributions of trans and gender-nonconforming philosophers from around the globe. Showcasing writing from a range of emerging and established voic...
2024-10-041h 03
University of Minnesota PressOn Trans Philosophy and troubling a Western-dominant sense of trans.Across language and politics, feminism and phenomenology, and decolonial theory, Trans Philosophy addresses trans worldmaking in all its beauty and mundanity. The volume’s four editors, Perry Zurn, Andrea J. Pitts, Talia Mae Bettcher, and PJ DiPietro focus on the contributions of trans and gender-nonconforming philosophers from around the globe. Showcasing writing from a range of emerging and established voices, Trans Philosophy addresses discrimination, embodiment, identity, language, and law, utilizing diverse philosophical methods to attend to significant intersections between trans experience and class, disability, race, nationality, and sexuality. Here, the book’s four editors engage each other in conversation.
2024-09-261h 03
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2024-09-1437 min
FQT PodcastDisorienting Cis with Perry ZurnIn this episode, FQT associate director Che Gossett speaks to professor Perry Zurn. Zurn Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, Fellow at Cornell University's Society for the Humanities ('23-'24) and a Visiting Scholar at the FQT at Penn. He is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (UMinn, 2021), and co-editor of Trans Philosophy (forthcoming UMinn, 2024), and Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition (Springer, 2016), among other edited and co-authored volumes, as well as copious articles. In the interview Zurn upacks a transnational genealogy of the term cis, it's pre...
2024-05-0935 min
Decide for Impact podcastAn invitation to contribute – Isabelle SwiderskiToday, we are learning from Isabelle Swiderski.
With over 20 years of experience in design, strategy, storytelling, and education, Isabelle focuses on using design-led approaches to support social and environmental activism and systems change.
She runs Seven25, a multidisciplinary consultancy that helps global impact-driven organizations engage their audiences and stakeholders through multimedia storytelling and design strategy. As a podcast host, solutions journalism correspondent, and independent filmmaker, she explores and amplifies the stories of social justice innovators and ecosystem builders who are redesigning the world's systems for greater equity and inclusion.
Isabelle also serves as a Visiting Associate Professor at both The...
2024-04-181h 01
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Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems—the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Da...
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Title: Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Author: Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Release date: November 14, 2023
Genres: Mental Health & Psychology
Publisher's Summary:
Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems—the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn an...
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Title: Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Author: Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Release date: November 14, 2023
Genres: Biology & Chemistry
Publisher's Summary:
Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems—the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Da...
2023-11-1410h 18
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Zurn and Bassett—identical twins who write that their book "represents the thought of one mind and two bodies"—harness their respective expertise in the humanities and the sciences to get irrepressibly curious about curiosity. They identify three styles of curiosity—the busybody, who collects stories, creating loose knowledge networks; the hunter, who hunts down secrets or discoveries, creati...
2023-11-1410h 18Get New Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Mental Health & PsychologyCurious Minds: The Power of Connection by Perry Zurn, Dani S. BassettPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/705036to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Curious Minds: The Power of Connection
Author: Perry Zurn, Dani S. Bassett
Narrator: Daniel Henning
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes
Release date: November 14, 2023
Genres: Mental Health & Psychology
Publisher's Summary:
Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems—the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn an...
2023-11-1410h 18
Love & Philosophy#2: Curious Minds & Edge-working with Perry ZurnSend a love messageA discussion of network science, Curious Minds and Edge-working with Perry Zurn, a philosopher at American University. Perry is building the new field of Curiosity Studies. We discuss his newest book Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, written with his twin Dani Bassett, as well as Curiosity and Power and themes from Curiosity Studies: A new Ecology of Knowledge. "Maybe love and curiosity are not two different contexts."Explore more of Perry's work and papers here.You can also find Perry Zurn on LinkedIn or Twitter.List to...
2023-08-3154 min
The 'D' WordThe 'D' Word - Season 3On Episode One of Season 3 of The ‘D’ Word, Aria Evans discusses curiosity with Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, authors of Curious Minds: The Power of Connection and what their research can mean for dance artists. Dani S. Bassett is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the departments of bioengineering,…
2023-07-1900 min
Robinson's Podcast98 - Dani S. Bassett & Perry Zurn: Curiosity, Philosophy, and Network TheoryDani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Perry Zurn is Provost Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University. Dani and Perry both do a great deal of interdisciplinary work within their fields, but Dani is best known for her work in systems neuroscience, while Perry’s research is primarily in political philosophy. The subject of this episode, however—though systems neuroscience and political philosophy both make their appearances—is Dani and Perry’s book, Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (MIT, 2022). While it wouldn’t be immediately apparent from their different...
2023-06-071h 04
Origins Podcast with Ryan McGranaghanDani Bassett and Perry Zurn - Understanding curiosity, nourishing a life, and how thoughts moveTwins Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn are curious. Their work, individually and together, gives new conception and language to what curiosity is, the work that it does in the world. These are human beings of intelligence and integrity and deep care, and their reification of curiosity might just be a generative narrative of our time. Origins Podcast WebsiteFlourishing Commons NewsletterShow Notes:Homeschooling (05:00)Epistemology (09:00)multiple discovery (16:30)foregrounding bravery (21:00)Curious Minds(25:00)Julio Ottino on Origins (28:30)Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit (32:00)Power of curiosity for social movements (34:30)Three types of...
2023-05-301h 08
Your Lot and ParcelIs Curiosity a Personality Trait or Something We Practice?My guests published a groundbreaking book on curiosity “Curious Minds: The Power of Connection.”They propose that there are three main kinds of curiosity, and in this episode, they reveal what they are. Perry noticed three styles of curiosity that repeatedly surface in the history of philosophy and Dani immediately recognized in them different network behaviors.People often think of curiosity as a personality trait—a kind of inner spark that we just have or do not have, whether about one topic or another or about life in general. The more they studied curiosity, however, the mo...
2023-05-1134 min
Viktigt på Riktigt, by Carin CoachGnistan i mötetI poddavsnittet får du lyssna till en kvinna, Malin Svensson, som utvecklar värdet av relationer i business, verksamheter och livet som helhet. Hon har följt sitt flow och arbetat och levt utomlands i hela sitt vuxna liv, Spanien, Italien och med internationella uppdrag – samtidigt som hon varit stadigt kopplad till Sverige.Tillsammans hovrar vi över vad det är som sker i de där mötena som får det att gnistra till och skickas vidare i ett nätverkande av kontakter, personer, inspiration, idéer och ibland en känsla som bär frukt längre f...
2023-03-0734 min
Conversations in Atlantic TheoryPerry Zurn on Curiosity and Power: The Politics of InquiryJohn Drabinski hosts this conversation with Perry Zurn, who teaches in the Department of Philosophy at American University in Washington, D.C. In addition to dozens of articles on key figures and issues in the European philosophical tradition, Perry has edited three volumes: with Andrew Dilts, Active Intolerance: Michel Foucault, the Prisons Information Group, and the Future of Abolition, published by Palgrave in 2016; with Arjun Shankar, Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge, with University of Minnesota Press in 2020; and Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group, 1970-1980, which included translation work and was published by...
2023-02-0755 min
unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc239. Chasing Curiosity in Science and Philosophy feat. Dani Bassett and Perry ZurnThe brain is a curious thing, but how does curiosity happen in it? Where does curiosity begin, and what does that process look like? Curiosity does quite a lot inside the brain, from connecting dots of knowledge to shaping entire architectures of thought and organization. Understanding the underpinnings of this motivating force can allow us to harness its power for our own advancement.Dani Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Physics & Astronomy, Neurology, and Psychiatry. They are also an external professor...
2023-01-2750 min
COMPLEXITYDani Bassett & Perry Zurn on The Neuroscience & Philosophy of Curious MindsThis is a podcast by and for the curious — and yet, in over three years, we have pointed curiosity at nearly every topic but itself. What is it, anyway? Are there worse and better frames for understanding how desire and wonder, exploration and discovery play out in both the brain and in society? How is scientific research like an amble through the woods? What juicy insights bubble up where neuroscientists, historians, philosophers, and mathematicians meet to answer questions like these? And how long of a path must we traverse to get there?In this episode, we talk wi...
2023-01-251h 20
The Psychology PodcastPerry Zurn & Dani Bassett || How Curiosity Connects UsToday we welcome Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett. Dr. Perry Zurn is Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University. He is the author or coauthor of more than 75 publications in philosophy, political theory, trans studies, and network science and has given hundreds of talks at local, national, and international venues. His work has been generously funded by organizations like the American Philosophical Association, the Center for Curiosity, the Lee Somers Fund and more. Dr. Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, with appointments in the Departments of Bioengineering, El...
2023-01-1247 min
Chatting With BetsyThe Power of CuriosityBetsy Wurzel's guests are Dr. Perry Zurn, Associate Professor at American University and the Author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry. Dr. Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014.Dr. Perry Zurn and Dr. Dani S. Bassett are identical twins who co-wrote and co-authored their book, "CURIOUS MINDS" The Power of Connection. Dr. Zurn and Dr.Bassett discussed why they wrote this book, why curiosity is important, and how we can encourage curiosity in our children, in the workplace, and in education.
2023-01-1040 min
New Books in NeurosciencePerry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems--the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other.Zurn and Bassett--identical twins who write...
2022-12-0950 min
The MIT Press PodcastPerry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems--the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other.Zurn and Bassett--identical twins who write...
2022-12-0948 min
New Books in PsychologyPerry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems--the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other.Zurn and Bassett--identical twins who write...
2022-12-0951 min
Sean Carroll's Mindscape219 | Dani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of CuriosityIt’s easy enough to proclaim that we are curious creatures, but what does that really mean? What kinds of curiosity are there? And how does curiosity arise in our brains? Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett are a philosopher and neuroscientist, respectively (as well as twins), whose new book Curious Minds: The Power of Connection explores these questions through an interdisciplinary lens. We break down the different ways that curiosity can manifest — collecting and creating loose knowledge networks, digging deeply to create a tight knowledge network, and creatively leaping to make unexpected connections. Support Mindscape on Patreon.Perry Zurn received a Ph.D...
2022-11-281h 02
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and IdeasDani Bassett and Perry Zurn on the Neuroscience and Philosophy of CuriosityIt’s easy enough to proclaim that we are curious creatures, but what does that really mean? What kinds of curiosity are there? And how does curiosity arise in our brains? Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett are a philosopher and neuroscientist, respectively (as well as twins), whose new book Curious Minds: The Power of Connection explores these questions through an interdisciplinary lens. We break down the different ways that curiosity can manifest — collecting and creating loose knowledge networks, digging deeply to create a tight knowledge network, and creatively leaping to make unexpected connections. Support Mindscape on Patreon.Per...
2022-11-281h 02
Searching for IntegrityCurious minds the power of connection - Perry Zurn and Dani BassettThe butterfly, who collects stories, creating loose knowledge networks The hunter, who hunts down secrets or discoveries, creating tight networks The dancer, who takes leaps of creative imagination, creating loopy networks.
They go on to explain that many of us are all three types but to differing degrees, and that those degrees can change over the course of our lives and even daily, depending on the task at hand. What’s more, they suggest that a true understanding of what happens in the curious brain can pave the way for a curiosity-centric education—an inclusive one that embraces every...
2022-11-0430 minNew Books in PsychologyPerry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems--the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other.Zurn and Bassett--identical twins who write...
2022-11-031h 03New Books in NeurosciencePerry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems--the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other.Zurn and Bassett--identical twins who write...
2022-11-031h 02The MIT Press PodcastPerry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems--the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other.Zurn and Bassett--identical twins who write...
2022-11-031h 00
New Books in AnthropologyPerry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems--the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other.Zurn and Bassett--identical twins who write...
2022-11-031h 03
New Books in SciencePerry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection" (MIT Press, 2022)Curious about something? Google it. Look at it. Ask a question. But is curiosity simply information seeking? According to this exhilarating, genre-bending book, what's left out of the conventional understanding of curiosity are the wandering tracks, the weaving concepts, the knitting of ideas, and the thatching of knowledge systems--the networks, the relations between ideas and between people. Curiosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and to each other.Zurn and Bassett--identical twins who write...
2022-11-031h 02
2022-10-2539 min
Out of the Comfort ZoneCurious Minds with Perry Zurn and Dani BassettSend us a textCuriosity – gentle curiosity – is an essential skill for leaders and teams. Whether it is the curiosity to ask why before leaping to a conclusion, to try to understand where someone else is coming from, to ask what if or to explore new territory; curiosity fuels so much of performance. How do you develop it? How do you nurture it in your team? What is curiosity and why does it matter for human connection? Tune in to hear more.⬇️ Connect with me!► LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wanda-wallace-publicspeaker-author-podcasthost/► Instagram: https://www.instagram.co...
2022-10-2155 min
Talk LouisianaWednesday, October 19th: John Kaufman, Dayne Sherman Dani Bassett, Perry ZurnDirector of Programming for the Manship Theatre of Baton Rouge John Kaufman talks about their upcoming events including Nicki Lane, tonight at 8 p.m. For more information and tickets, visit www.manshiptheatre.org. Southeastern professor and political authority Dayne Sherman comments on several political topics including Steve Scalise. American physicist, systems neuroscientist, and author Dani Bassett is joined by Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University, author, and twin, Perry Zurn, to discuss their recent book, "Curious Minds: The Power of Connection".
2022-10-1944 min
Thinking Critically#43: Curious MindsIn this episode, Jonathan is speaking with Perry Zurn and Dani Bassett about the science and philosophy of curiosity.
They discuss:
•Growing up as twins and their respective interests in science and philosophy.
•Why they decided to coauthor the book "Curious Minds."
•The concept of complexity and emergence versus reductionism.
•Network science and curiosity.
•Philosophy, networks, and how it relates to curiosity.
•The archetypes of curiosity.
•How curiosity is also breaking connections to make new ones.
•And other topics.
Dr. Perry Zurn is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at American University, and affiliate faculty in the Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Stud...
2022-09-161h 47
Choose to be CuriousEp. 177: Curious Minds: The Power of Connection, with Perry Zurn & Dani S. BassettCuriosity, say Perry Zurn and Dani S. Bassett, is a practice of connection: it connects ideas into networks of knowledge, and it connects knowers themselves, both to the knowledge they seek and -- perhaps even more importantly -- to each other.
Twins, professors, and true curiosity connoisseurs, Perry & Dani return to Choose to be Curious for this delightful multidisciplinary distillation of this thing we call curiosity, celebrating the release of their groundbreaking book, Curious Minds: The Power of Connection.
Perry Zurn is a professor of philosophy at American University. He is the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of...
2022-09-0528 min
Design Lab with Bon KuDesigning Curious Minds | Perry Zurn and Dani S. BassetHow do you define curiosity? Can it make us happier? Does curiosity have style?Perry Zurn is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at American University and the author of Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry. Dani S. Bassett is the J. Peter Skirkanich Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania and received a MacArthur Fellowship in 2014. They're the authors of the forthcoming book Curious Minds: The Power of Connection (MIT Press, September 2022).Episode Mentions:https://www.perryzurn.com/https://Danisbassett.com/Guest photo cr...
2022-08-1841 min
Researchers' CardboxS01E04: Cecil Taylor, Free NYT Games, Borromean KnotsAs Kumar observes: “Style isn’t universal” (120), and neither are influences nor the creative process. In what ways are influences, style, and creativity related? Further, how can arts-based practices inform the way we approach writing scholarship? If we value novelty in scholarship, how do we relate to what comes before us, and how do we avoid being vague copies of things we admire? Has the emergence of influencer culture eroded what Walter Benjamin referred to as aura, and have we entered an era wherein what’s valued is to become yet another mechanistic copy of the popular? And when we are a...
2022-06-2919 min
Conversations in Atlantic TheoryKevin Thompson and Perry Zurn on Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information GroupA conversation with Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, editors of Intolerable, the new collection of speeches, pamphlets, essays, and manifestos by the Groupe d’Information sur les Prisons (Prisons Information Group), published by University of Minnesota Press in late 2021. Discussion ranges from the origins of the project to the history of GIP and the legacy it leaves in post-WWII French thought to contemporary and transnational resonance of its themes.Kevin Thompson teaches in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois, where he publishes widely in 19th and 20th century European thought and is the au...
2022-01-171h 25
New Books in Policing, Incarceration, and ReformMichel Foucault, "Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)" (U of Minnesota Press, 2021)Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, is a groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France's inhumane treatment of prisonersFounded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970-71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an excl...
2021-12-201h 06
New Books in Politics and PolemicsMichel Foucault, "Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)" (U of Minnesota Press, 2021)Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, is a groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France's inhumane treatment of prisonersFounded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970-71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an excl...
2021-12-201h 11
New Books in French StudiesMichel Foucault, "Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)" (U of Minnesota Press, 2021)Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, is a groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France's inhumane treatment of prisonersFounded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970-71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an excl...
2021-12-201h 09
New Books in LawMichel Foucault, "Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980)" (U of Minnesota Press, 2021)Intolerable: Writings from Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group (1970-1980) (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), edited by Kevin Thompson and Perry Zurn, is a groundbreaking collection of writings by Michel Foucault and the Prisons Information Group documenting their efforts to expose France's inhumane treatment of prisonersFounded by Michel Foucault and others in 1970-71, the Prisons Information Group (GIP) circulated information about the inhumane conditions within the French prison system. Intolerable makes available for the first time in English a fully annotated compilation of materials produced by the GIP during its brief but influential existence, including an exclusive new interview with GIP...
2021-12-201h 11
Simple PsychologyCan Being Curious Help With Your Anxiety?In this episode, I share the findings of a new paper named “Daily Stressor-Related Negative Mood and its Associations with Flourishing and Daily Curiosity” by Alexandra Drake, Bruce P. Doré, Emily B. Call, Perry Zurn, Danielle S. Bassett, and David M. Lyndon-Staley. Hope you’ll enjoy listening!
2021-07-3001 min
Synapsen – ein Wissenschaftspodcast(34) Frau - Mann - Divers - egal?Der Schädel von Männern ist im Verhältnis zu ihrem Körper kleiner als der von Frauen.
Daher müssen Männer intelligenter sein als Frauen - diese und ähnliche Aussagen wurden in den vergangenen Jahrhunderten dazu genutzt, die Ungleichbehandlung von Männern und Frauen zu legitimieren. Mit dem relativ neuen Forschungsgebiet "Genderstudies" hat die Forschung rund um Gender und Geschlecht neuen Auftrieb erhalten. Wie groß sind die die Unterschiede zwischen den verschiedenen Geschlechtern wirklich? Und warum gibt es biologisch gesehen gar keine scharfe Trennung von Geschlechtern? Über diese Fragen sprechen Host Lucie Kluth und Wissenschaftsjournalistin Yasmin Appelhans in der akt...
2021-06-1858 min
New Books in PhilosophyPerry Zurn, "Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry" (U of Minnesota Press, 2021)Is curiosity political? Does it have a philosophical lineage? In Curiosity and Power: The Politics of Inquiry (University of Minnesota Press, 2021), Perry Zurn shows, consequentially, yes. He further asks: Who can be curious? How? When? To what effect? What happens when we are curious together? Engaged with multiple social movements ranging from the mid-twentieth century to our current time, and thinkers of curiosity from the Ancient world until now, Zurn theorizes the normative and political force of curiosity while providing insight into how it has and can be wielded for transformative collective resistance.Sarah Tyson is an...
2021-04-2058 min
Experience The Unforgettable Full Audiobook Experience!Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge by Arjun Shankar, Perry ZurnPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/427056to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge
Author: Arjun Shankar, Perry Zurn
Narrator: Wendy Tremont King
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 14 hours 22 minutes
Release date: June 30, 2020
Genres: Mental Health & Psychology
Publisher's Summary:
From science and technology to business and education, curiosity is often taken for granted as an unquestioned good. And yet, few people can define curiosity. Curiosity Studies marshals scholars from more than a dozen fields not only to define curiosity but also to grapple with its ethics as well as its role in technological advancement and global citizenship...
2020-06-302h 22
Power-Up With The Spellbinding Full Audiobook Experience!Curiosity Studies by Perry Zurn, Arjun ShankarPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/166830to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Curiosity Studies
Author: Perry Zurn, Arjun Shankar
Narrator: Wendy Tremont King
Format: mp3
Length: 14 hrs and 22 mins
Release date: 06-30-20
Ratings: 1 out of 5 stars, 1 rating
Genres: Future Studies
Publisher's Summary:
From science and technology to business and education, curiosity is often taken for granted as an unquestioned good. And yet, few people can define curiosity. Curiosity Studies marshals scholars from more than a dozen fields not only to define curiosity but also to grapple with its ethics as well as its role in technological advancement and global citizenship...
2020-06-302h 22
Choose to be CuriousEp. #115: Curiosity Studies with Perry Zurn PhDTogether with his co-editor Arjun Shankar, American University philosophy professor Perry Zurn has compiled a cross-discipline anthology on curiosity that seeks nothing less than to launch a whole new area of study --or, as he would put it, a "new ecology of knowledge."
Check out the whole Curiosity Studies series at choosetobecurious.com/curiosity-studies
Theme music by Sean Balick. "Town Market" by Onesuch Village via Blue Dot Sessions.
2020-04-1528 min
Choose to be CuriousEp. #114: Resilient & Brave, with Dr. Jill Bolte TaylorBrain scientist, neuroanatomist, author and public inspiration Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor says we're wired to be resilient and brave. It's a reassuring message for our times. Spoiler alert: curiosity helps.
Theme music by Sean Balick. "Are We Loose Yet" by BodyTonic via Blue Dot Sessions.
Join us next time when Prof. Perry Zurn talks about the new anthology "Curiosity Studies: A New Ecology of Knowledge".
2020-04-0128 min
Choose to be CuriousCuriosity to Go, Ep. 36: Attending to What Is Passed OverProfessor of philosophy Perry Zurn asserts "curiosity is political" and asks us to attend to those whose stories we might otherwise overlook, whether intentionally or otherwise. Historian Susan Strasser and poet Marcia E. Cole ask us to do the same -- with a shameful part of US history: lynching. Choosing to be curious about some hard stuff. A thoughtful and thought-provoking 6 minutes.
2018-09-1906 min
Choose to be CuriousEp. #63: Curiosity Is Political, with Perry Zurn PhDAt some level I've been making this case for a while, but American University professor Perry Zurn makes it explicit: curiosity IS political. What questions are sanctioned? Who gets to ask what? Of whom? When? We dig into the power of attending to what gets passed over and think about how our ideas about education and institutions might be transformed through curiosity.
2018-09-1927 min