The ecology of perception and language

Here is a seminar on The Ecology of Perception and Language with David Abram.¹ He is author of two books – Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology and The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World – and is best known for his work bridging phenomenology with ecology.

Specific topics covered in the seminar include:

• Explaining sensing
• Perceptual crisis
• The heartbeat is wild
• An experience very old in us
• The rich otherness
• Perceptual crisis
• An answer to why: Part 1
• An answer to why: Part 2
• Blindspots of divine faith
• Breath and poetry (closure)

Notes:
¹ The seminar was arranged by Naturakademin Learning Lab, Stockholm, 2010-11-05.