{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"University of Minnesota Press","title":"Deconstructing deep time.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4716,"description":"Has the idea of the end of the world captured your imagination? Ted Toadvine’s book The Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology contends that a preoccupation with the world’s precarity relies on a flawed understanding of time that neglects the past and present with the goal of managing the future. Toadvine integrates insights from phenomenology, deconstruction, critical animal studies, and new materialism to argue for a new philosophy of time that takes seriously the entangled temporal events spanning cosmic, geological, evolutionary, and human durations. Here Toadvine is joined in conversation with David Morris and Benjamin Décarie-Daigneault. Access the transcript: https://share.transistor.fm/s/4e47d08f\n\nTed Toadvine is Nancy Tuana Director of the Rock Ethics Institute and professor of philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University.\n\nDavid Morris is professor of philosophy at Concordia University in Montreal.\n\nBenjamin Décarie-Daigneault is a graduate student of philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University.\nREFERENCES:\nMaurice Merleau-Ponty (body of works including Phenomenology of Perception)\nImmanuel Kant\nDipesh Chakrabarty\nMichel Serres / The Incandescent\nMartin Heidegger\nJacques Derrida\nJean-Luc Nancy\nJerome Miller\nHenri Bergson\nEdmund Husserl\nJames Playfair\nJames Hutton (Hutton’s Unconformity)\nJohn Sallis / Stone\nAdam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, and Evan Thompson / The Blind Spot\nJane Bennett\nDonald S. Maier / What’s So Good About Biodiversity?\nFerdinand de Saussure\nÉmile P. Torres / Human Extinction\nRachel Carson / Silent Spring\nKyle Powys Whyte\nAlfred North Whitehead / The Concept of Nature  \n\nThe Memory of the World: Deep Time, Animality, and Eschatology is available from University of Minnesota Press.\n\n“The Memory of the World achieves two important things: it steers our understanding of Merleau-Ponty toward a temporal interpretation of his thought and, at the same time, it uses that reading to make a critical intervention amongst...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/fAwENHzmp9h_PaRnnj_lblPe4NxpUbbLPc46_lIefAU/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84ZDM5/YzQwMzU5YTA2NTdh/MDAzOGFkZGNlNjk3/NTRjOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}