Sydney Ideas

Sydney Ideas is the University of Sydney's premier public lecture series program, bringing the world's leading thinkers and the latest research to the wider Sydney community.

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Sydney Ideas

Episodes (500)

Jan 6th An optimised life, examined
Dec 4, 2025 The social life of food - Part 2
Nov 22, 2025 The social life of food - Part 1

Sydney Ideas

Jan 6, 2026
55½ minutes
50 MB

How, and for what, should life be optimised? Is the growing culture of optimisation leading us towards the homogenisation of culture? These days we're using technology to help us write, make decisions, as well as augment, biohack, sculpt and transform our bodies, inside and out, to look and feel younger and fitter. As we seem to optimise virtually every aspect of our everyday lives, do we somehow end up creating more labour and inefficiencies? The pursuit of human development and self-improvement is a perennial subject of fascination and study, from Aristotle’s eudaemonia to Confucian ethics, Maslow’s theory, and now...

Sydney Ideas

An optimised life, examined

Sydney Ideas

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