Images of the lecture performance by Richard Shusterman on May 14th, 2024 in the series Understanding Practice.

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Footnotes

Literature

Interview

Mapping Delirium Part 2

The typically Western notion of “we’re taking drugs” just reflects the delusions of power with which we approach fellow beings that are superior to us. I don’t take drugs, the drugs take me with them. And it’s not my decision whether I am swept along by it or not, but I can decide what level of humility I display toward it.

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Essay

Ruth Anderwald

Gravity and Dizziness

Gravity lends weight to all objects and causes the tides, but it can also be used to connote seriousness and depth, or a metaphorical weight or tide. If gravity is another word for seriousness, lightness connotes levity, humour and flippancy.

Essay

Iseult Grandjean

No Mind’s Land

You are matter but you don’t: How knowledge of neuroscience can induce existential dizziness.

Dizziness and Climate Action @ Uncommon Senses IV

3-6 May 2023

The senses work together in multifaceted and even dissonant ways. However, recognition of this multiplicity has been stymied by the emphasis on the “pre-reflective unity” of the senses within the phenomenology of perception and the focus on harmonious integration within cognitive neuroscience.

Dizziness @ Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research

6 July 2023, 18:00

The Institute for Medical & Health Humanities and Artistic Research organizes events online and at different locations for the exchange about current projects and initiatives. It wants to contribute to the further development of the discourses in the field of the Medical & Health Humanities, but focus in particular on the manifold connections between the Medical & Health Humanities and artistic research.