#TSAS (The Saying And Showing) --- SynTalk
SynTalk15 Juli 2017

#TSAS (The Saying And Showing) --- SynTalk

Why don’t we misunderstand the number 3? Do you have a private photograph? Is most of perception ineffable? Do propositions capture reality? What cannot be shown? Or, said? How does one describe touch? Or disgust? What/how do you understand if you watch a foreign language film without subtitles? How is it even possible for our thought to be about the world? Does the logical form of a fact and its (corresponding) sentence match each other? Does language 'depict' the world? How does this picturing take place? Is saying helpless without showing? Is seeing believing? Are films merely audiovisual? Is there a limit to what can be said in filmic narration? Can tautologies or contradictions only be shown? How do you show? Can a shot of an ocean have a narrative arc? Are films more compatible with the way we form memories? Which shots stay in your mind? Is cinema closer to immediate perception? Are propositions always abstract? Can we speak about just about anything? When do descriptions fail? What would a world of only blind people be like? What might be the future of saying and showing? Should one be silent when the situation is of great importance? What else can one say…? SynTalk thinks about these & more questions using concepts from philosophy (Dr. Nilanjan Bhowmick, University of Delhi, New Delhi), & documentary film making & film theory (Dr. Aparna Sharma, UCLA, Los Angeles). Listen in...

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#TART (The Atypical Reality Types) --- SynTalk

#TART (The Atypical Reality Types) --- SynTalk

Is that you on stage? Is the table human? Is existence necessarily a part of (even, physical) reality? Is there only one thing (brahma)? Does poetry depict reality? How is literature different from pa...

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#TEOEE (The Echo Of Extreme Experiences) --- SynTalk

#TEOEE (The Echo Of Extreme Experiences) --- SynTalk

Who writes autobiographies? Is movement a choice for you? Do you plan to go back home? Have you had to leave ‘home’, forever, with fish still frying in the pan? Are you under chronic stress? Are viole...

16 Apr 1h 19min

#TNATP (The Narrator And The Proscenium) --- SynTalk

#TNATP (The Narrator And The Proscenium) --- SynTalk

Are you a narr-actor or a spect-actor? Are you best placed to narrate your own story? Why do those things not get talked about? Do narrations create selves? Can one perceive differently than one sees?...

11 Mars 1h 13min

#TTEHOW (The To-Each-Her-Own World) --- SynTalk

#TTEHOW (The To-Each-Her-Own World) --- SynTalk

How standard are you? What does it mean to be an Individual? Are you a Hutterite? Must charities be voluntary? What about orphans? Should the State tell us what to do? What might absence of State lead...

15 Feb 1h 14min

#TPLOD (The Plunge Lines Of Diversity) --- SynTalk

#TPLOD (The Plunge Lines Of Diversity) --- SynTalk

Has it always been the Anthropocene? Do you care about the ‘powerless’ Nicobar? How old is biodiversity? Why does anyone want to be a conservationist? What is the kind of variety that we wish to prese...

20 Dec 20251h 24min

#TRAP (The Rhythms And Perturbations) --- SynTalk

#TRAP (The Rhythms And Perturbations) --- SynTalk

Are our brains log-normal? Why is breathing rhythmic? Why is there a hum in the universe? Do our hearts beat chaotically? Are the (stock) markets random and ‘unbounded’? What is a market? How is Mercu...

6 Dec 20251h 14min

#TEOR (The Effects Of Rights) --- SynTalk

#TEOR (The Effects Of Rights) --- SynTalk

Are you a born criminal? Is genocide ever justified? Is meritocracy a ‘garbage’ concept? What are the entitlements that you have by virtue of being a human being? Do rights exist because the State exi...

6 Sep 20251h 15min

#TEST (The Entangled Sweet Tooth) --- SynTalk

#TEST (The Entangled Sweet Tooth) --- SynTalk

How many meals do you have time for? Why do sweets make you happy? Does fruit sugar (fructose) need insulin? Why does sugar spike? Are oranges and grapes differently sweet? Has sugar always been a tra...

30 Aug 20251h 8min

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