Schedule
2021-11-03
- Kopenawa, Davi & Bruce Albert 2013. The Falling Sky: Words of a Yanomami Shaman. Selections: “The Animal Ancestors” and “The Spirit of the Forest”
- Wagner, Roy. 1977. “Scientific and Indigenous Papuan Conceptualization of the Innate: A Semiotic Critique of the Ecological Perspective”
- Maniglier, Patrice. 2016. “Anthropological Meditations: The Discourse on Comparative Method”
2021-11-10
- Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2015. The Relative Native
Essays on Indigenous Conceptual Worlds. Selection: “Along the Spider’s Thread: Virtuality, Actualization, and the Kinship Process in Amazonia”
- Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2012. “Radical Dualism”
- Wagner, Roy. 1991. “The Fractal Person”
- Crook, Tony. 1999. “Growing Knowledge in Bolivip, Papua New Guinea”
2021-11-17
- Goldman, Irving. 2004. Cubeo Religious Thought: Metaphysics of a Northwest Amazonian People. Selection: “Process in Creation”
- Lenton, Tim & Andrew Watson. 2011. Revolutions that made the Earth. Selection: “Playing Gaia”
- Penrose, Roger. 2012. “The Basic Ideas of Conformal Cyclic Cosmology”
2021-11-24
- Introduction to Comparative Planetology, by Lukás Likavcan
- Laudato Si, by Pope Francis
- “Extending the Domain of Freedom, or Why Gaia is so Hard to Understand,” by Latour and Lenton
2021-12-01
- “The Galactic Polity in Southeast Asia,” by Stanley J. Tambiah
- “Bhakti and Henadology,” by Edward Butler
- Cubeo Religious Thought: Metaphysics of a Northwest Amazonian People (p. 345-357), by Irving Goldman
2021-12-08
- In the Last Humanity: The New Ecological Science (“Introduction”), by François Laruelle
- Christo-Fiction: The Ruins of Athens and Jerusalem (“Introduction”), by François Laruelle
- “Non-Theurgy: Iamblichus and Laruelle,” by Stanimir Panayatov.
2021-12-15
- “Is there a field for philosophy,” by Anne-Françoise Schmid
- “Figure-ground reversal among the Barok,” by Roy Wagner
- Selections from the Greek Magical Papyri
2021-12-22
- “An Outside View of Ourselves as a Toy Model AGI,” by Reza Negarestani
- “From Earth-Systems Science to the Sky-Earth System,” by Adam Louis-Klein
- Recursivity and Contingency (Chapter 1), by Yuk Hui
2022-01-05
- “Platforming & Perspectivism,” by Zé Antonio R. Magalhães
- “For a Strategic Primitivism,” a dialogue between Yuk Hui & Viveiros de Castro
- Inquiry into Modes of Existence (Chapter 8), by Bruno Latour
- Anthropology of the Subject (Chapter 14), by Roy Wagner