#TEMM (The En Masse Media) --- SynTalk
Are you looking at a small screen now? Do you like following news ‘stories’ and soap operas? Why are the processes of media production always getting homogenized? Is the content often ‘more of the sam...
6 Jan 20181h 9min
#TDAC (The Discrete And Continuous) --- SynTalk
Is grey ‘real’? Is all discretization perspectival? Can there be absolute notions of discreteness and continuity? Is time eternal? Is the world continuous but we perceive it as discrete? Are micro and...
23 Des 20171h 17min
#TCOD (The Constraints Of Diagrams) --- SynTalk
Imagine taking a step forward, then a step to the right, & then a step back – where are you now? Do you have to reason for this, & how ‘far’ can you go? How are diagrammatic reasoning and representati...
10 Des 20171h 14min
#TAAF (The Alienation And Freedom) --- SynTalk
Are you free if thoughts just occur to you? Is alienation – as loss of a sense of belonging and subjectivity – a phenomenon of modernity? Is freedom contra-causal and spontaneous? Is it truly in human...
9 Des 20171h 18min
#TFOT (The Fantasy Of Translation) --- SynTalk
Do you trust your translator? How can ‘worlds’ be translated? Where is Tamil when a novelist writes in English about Tamil speaking characters? Are all translations interpretations (judgment?)? Can on...
25 Nov 20171h 11min
#TEAE (The Eras And Epochs) --- SynTalk
Can you be a revolutionary? Might concrete events have causes, but not history? What drives the world? Does history develop (or progress?) in stages? Is the end there at the beginning? Are we moving f...
19 Nov 20171h 18min
#TCOA (The Coordination Of Affairs) --- SynTalk
Are more than a third of you crooks; could you arrive at a consensus? When do we need to work together? Can introducing uncertainty (or randomness?) get rid of certain equilibria? Is coordination nece...
4 Nov 20171h 11min
#TROI (The Role Of Interfaces) --- SynTalk
What is on that side? Where does identity crisis happen? Is interface a neighborhood concept? Can there be interfaces without fences? Are there non-membrane bound life forms? How do we connect compute...
24 Sep 20171h 14min
