Henrietta Moore at HowTheLightGetsIn
HowTheLightGetsIn: the philosophy and music festival at Hay
26th May – 5th June 2011
Videos of Professor Henrietta Moore taking part in talks and debates at HowTheLightGetsIn, in June 2011, are now available online on the Institute of Art and Ideas website: http://iai.tv.
The discussions included:
My Avatar, Myself
When we extend ourselves into the virtual where do we, ourselves, end? With endless new capacities to animate our intentions beyond the body, leading anthropologist Henrietta Moore proposes this is far more than projection.
http://iai.tv/video/my-avatar-myself
Who Looks Back in the Mirror?
In its focus on language and structure 20th century philosophy all but eradicated the need for the human subject. Now there are signs that the self is on its way back. But are we any closer to understanding the self, and what makes each one of us who we are?
Martin Jacques uncovers who philosopher / writer / broadcasters, Simon May, Barry C Smith, and Julian Baggini and cultural theorist Henrietta Moore think they really are.
http://iai.tv/video/who-looks-back-in-the-mirror
The New Romantics
Should we be celebrating the end of rationality in favor of a more romantic sensibility? Or are we, in the words of J.G. Ballard, ‘re-primitivizing’ ourselves and entering an age of magic, unreason and romantic superstition?
Consultant psychiatrist, and author of The Master and His Emissary Iain McGilchrist, award-winning novelist Joanna Kavenna, and Oxford philosopher Peter Hacker look beyond reason.
http://iai.tv/video/the-new-romantics
The Post-Nuclear Family
The family is in transition. A generation is growing up with multiple parents and a host of half siblings. Are family structures falling apart or growing into exciting new possibilities? And is family essential to human well-being, and if so why?
http://iai.tv/video/the-post-nuclear-family-future