The Tympanic Eclipse (www.tympaniceclipse.org)

Britt Wray

The Tympanic Eclipse is an audio podcast that brings cultural theory out of its stuffy scholarly tomes, and puts it into your ears! Together with established thinkers and makers, it explores wide ranging issues we’re facing in the 21st century. Without using academic jargon or relying on journalistic sensationalism, The Tympanic Eclipse points out theory’s relevance to everyday life. This project received the IdeasTap Innovator’s Award and is produced by Britt Wray (www.brittwray.com). Please find the real website for the podcast (not the PodOMatic site) at www.tympaniceclipse.org

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The Tympanic Eclipse (www.tympaniceclipse.org)

Episodes (6)

Jan 23, 2013 Making Life – exploring the philosophical implications of research that aims to create it from scratch
Jan 23, 2013 THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE//Bioartcamp – biologists, artists, philosophers, and the wilderness
Jan 23, 2013 THE TYMPANIC ECLIPSE//Cybernetics Shows Us A World That Modern Science Can’t - What Stuff is Really Like

The Tympanic Eclipse (www.tympaniceclipse.org)

Jan 23, 2013
21¾ minutes
18 MB

How do different fields try to get at the nitty gritty of what living systems require in order to fit the definition of “alive”? How have researchers from the areas of artificial life and synthetic biology assumed certain ontologies of life, or, ways of being that life must adhere to, in their research programs? What is top down versus bottom up creation of life? What are protocells? What on earth are emergent properties? And how do these questions depend on if the world a closed or open-ended system? Tune into this episode to find out about some compelling musings on t...

The Tympanic Eclipse (www.tympaniceclipse.org)

Making Life – exploring the philosophical implications of research that aims to create it from scratch

Britt Wray

00:00 -19:59