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Testing Knowledge
This volume presents the collective adventure of Dingdingdong, the Institute for the Co-production of Knowledge about Huntington's Disease, founded in 2012 between Paris and Brussels. Katrin Solhdju's Testing Knowledge: Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis pursues the question of taming the violence of the new species of medical foreknowledge represented by genetic testing. Adopting historical and epistemological perspectives on diagnostic situations, including observations from anthropological field research, speculative storytelling, and ancient oracles, Testing Knowledge proposes a new ecology of predictive diagnostic gestures, which potentially concern us all. Testing Knowledge is preceded by ...
Testing Knowledge
This volume presents the collective adventure of Dingdingdong, the Institute for the Co-production of Knowledge about Huntington's Disease, founded in 2012 between Paris and Brussels.Katrin Solhdju's Testing Knowledge: Toward an Ecology of Diagnosis pursues the question of taming the violence of the new species of medical foreknowledge represented by genetic testing. Adopting historical and epistemological perspectives on diagnostic situations, including observations from anthropological field research, speculative storytelling, and ancient oracles, Testing Knowledge proposes a new ecology of predictive diagnostic gestures, which potentially concern us all.Testing Knowledge is preceded by th...
Die Versuchung des Wissens
»Es wird unerträglich werden!« - Medizinische Einschätzungen auf Grund von prädiktiven Gentests sind eine moderne Form des Fluches - mit unerbittlich sicheren Folgen. Ausgehend vom Fall Alice Rivières, deren Test auf die Huntington-Krankheit positiv ausfällt, zeigt Katrin Solhdju die Fallstricke im Umgang mit einer existentiell bedrohlichen Form des Zukunftswissens auf: Wie lässt sich solcher Gewalt denkend begegnen? Wo lassen sich begriffliche, epistemologische und imaginative Elemente auffinden, ihr effektiv entgegenzuwirken? Und was sind die »ökologischen« Bedingungen für einen kunstvollen und gewaltarmen Umgang mit dieser modernen Variante des Vorherwissens?
Das Leben vom Tode her
Das Leben vom Tode her. Zur Kulturgeschichte einer Grenzbestimmung, hg. von Katrin Solhdju und Ulrike Vedder Die Grenze zwischen Leben und Tod ist einerseits verschiebbar und definitorisch unscharf, andererseits absolut, opak und von großer Wucht. Diese Doppelbestimmung tritt heute besonders deutlich hervor; allerdings ist der Grenzverlauf zwischen Leben und Tod, zwischen den Lebenden und den Toten immer prekär gewesen. Der Band fragt aus unterschiedlichen disziplinären und historischen Perspektiven danach, was es heißt, das Leben vom Tode her zu denken und zu praktizieren. In religions-, wissenschafts- und kulturgeschichtlicher Hinsicht werden die vielfältigen definitorischen Anstrengungen einer solchen Grenzziehung sowie die damit befassten Symbolsysteme, Kulturtechniken und Narrative analysiert. Wer gilt als tot, was kann als lebendig definiert werden, welche Effekte zeitigt das jeweilige Wissen um diese Unterscheidung? Und wie ist das Verhältnis zwischen den Lebenden und den Toten zu fassen?
The Philosophy of Life and Death
Some of the first figures the Nazis conscripted in their rise to power were rhetoricians devoted to popularizing the German vocabulary of Leben (life). This fascinating study reexamines this movement through one of its most prominent exponents, Ludwig Klages, revealing the philosophical-cultural crises and political volatility of the Weimar era.
Neuropsychedelia
Neuropsychedelia examines the revival of psychedelic science since the "Decade of the Brain." After the breakdown of this previously prospering area of psychopharmacology, and in the wake of clashes between counterculture and establishment in the late 1960s, a new generation of hallucinogen researchers used the hype around the neurosciences in the 1990s to bring psychedelics back into the mainstream of science and society. This book is based on anthropological fieldwork and philosophical reflections on life and work in two laboratories that have played key roles in this development: a human lab in Switzerland and an animal lab in California. It sheds light on the central transnational axis of the resurgence connecting American psychedelic culture with the home country of LSD. In the borderland of science and religion, Neuropsychedelia explores the tensions between the use of hallucinogens to model psychoses and to evoke spiritual experiences in laboratory settings. Its protagonists, including the anthropologist himself, struggle to find a place for the mystical under conditions of late-modern materialism.
REALTY
How to transcend land grab economies, even by means of art? The reader REALTY moves from the safety of critique to the vulgarity of suggestions. The pandemic's effect on mobility presents a historic opportunity. Rarely has criticism of our extractive artworld logic of one-place-after-another been louder. REALTY is a long-term curatorial program by Tirdad Zolghadr (*1973), initially commissioned by the KW Institute for Contemporary Art. With the help of numerous artists and experts who contributed over 2017–2020, this reader revisits how contemporary art can contribute to decisive conversations on urbanism.
High Culture
Le site de l'éditeur indique : "Throughout history, humans have always been fascinated by drugs and altered states. Despite the risk of addiction, many have used drugs as technologies to induce moments of meaning-making transcendence. This book traces the quest for transcendence and meaning through drugs in the modern West. Starting with the Romantic fascination with opium, it goes on to chronicle the discovery of anesthetics, psychiatric and religious interest in hashish, the bewitching power of mescaline and hallucinogenic fungi, as well as the more recent uses of LSD. It fills a major gap in our understanding of contemporary alternative and in the study of countercultures and popular culture. Today we are seeing increased social and scientific attention to both the positive and the negative effects of psychoactive drugs, particularly following the legalization of marijuana for medicinal and/or recreational use in some US states, as well as court cases involving the sacramental use of drugs. This fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of the controversial relationship between drugs and spirituality could not be more timely."
Mind that Abides
Panpsychism is the view that all things, living and nonliving, possess some mind like quality. It stands in sharp contrast to the traditional notion of mind as the property of humans and (perhaps) a few select 'higher animals'. Though surprising at first glance, panpsychism has a long and noble history in both Western and Eastern thought. Overlooked by analytical, materialist philosophy for most of the 20th century, it is now experiencing a renaissance of sorts in several areas of inquiry. A number of recent books including Skrbina's Panpsychism in the West (2005) and Strawson et al's Consciousness and its Place in Nature (2006) have established panpsychism as respectable and viable. Mind That Abides builds on these works. It takes panpsychism to be a plausible theory of mind and then moves forward to work out the philosophical, psychological and ethical implications. With 17 contributors from a variety of fields, this book promises to mark a wholesale change in our philosophical outlook. (Series A)
