Beyond Dichotomy.
Welcome to Love & Philosophy, where we’re highlighting the patterns that connect across disciplines, holding what might seem irreconcilable, all the while focusing on how a new approach to life and mind might better address the urgent divides and challenges we face. We think of it as way-making.
Way-making is a term inspired by Taoism, and can be understood as the movement of the body as well as the movement of the mind: “Way-making blunts the sharp edges and untangles the knots; it softens the glare and brings things together on the same track.” (Ames and Hall, 2003). Your ideas and collaboration are welcome. Sign up for the newsletter here.
Hill Making with tech maverick Kevin Kelly
“hill-making and lessons for living
Complexity Fatigue and the Third Entity
“participatory sense-making”
How shall we live? Look to the lines.
“life is lived in lines”
Spacetime Folds & Windows of Ritournelle with Bayo Akomolafe
“love is the radial incompleteness of everything”
Project Love
Project Love: What We Make and How it Makes Us with designer Clive Grinyer
Body Knowledge
Body Knowledge and 4E Cognition
Love in Times of Crisis
love in a time of crisis with Wittgenstein and Rupert Read
Empowerment in Robotics with Dari
empowerment in robotics and real life
In Defence of the Human Being
“beyond self-hatred and narcissism to love and conviviality” with philosopher and psychiatrist Thomas Fuchs of Universität Heidelberg
Free Love: Rethinking Hegel’s Concept of Life with Karen Ng
Hegel and the tradition of Jena might be another way we can better understand the continuity of mind and life. The problem of contradiction might be a portal of paradox.
How to see the Blind Spot with philosopher Evan Thompson
How can we see the blind spot in philosophy and science? And why is the key to the meaning crisis and its ecological ramifications? with Evan Thompson
The Real World and its Many Models with Michela Massimi
Real World and its Many Models with Michela Massimi
Life after Life with philosopher Alva Noë
The Entanglement with Alva Noë
Bernardo Kastrup is an Apple Blossom
What is consciousness?
Hidden Spring
The Hidden Spring and Consciousness as Feeling with psychoanalyst and neuropsychologist Marc Solms
Synchrony between mind and nature
Fractals of nature in the brain body and world. A new spatiotemporal approach to neuroscience and philosophy.
How the World Thinks with Julian Baggini
Moving beyond Western Philosophy with bestselling philosopher Julian Baggini and Andrea Hiott
Being yourself to save yourself with Darryl Pinckney
New York City in the 1970s and what it means to be avant-garde with Darryl Pinckney and Andrea Hiott.
Taking Category Theory to Heart with Brandon Baylor
The personal side of mathematics and how it applies to relational life with Brandon Boyd and Andrea Hiott.
Sometimes a Map is also Its Territory with Mahault Albarracin
Sometimes a map is its own territory with Mahault Albarracin
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Embracing Paradox.
A Light Little Guide for the Times (44 pages)
This is Book One of the Embracing Paradox series published by Making Ways. It’s about the ability to hold seemingly contradictory ideas in mind at once, while maintaining motivation and meaning in troubled times.
As F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote: "The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." This book is a step in that direction.
