Dorion Sagan: What does perception or interiority mean for animals and other nonhuman lifeforms?
Saturday 09 June, 2012
7:30pm, $0
Artists Institute
163 Eldridge Street
For Rosemarie Trockel, interior life has a lot to do with animal life, and vice-versa.
But what does perception or interiority mean for animals and other nonhuman lifeforms?
Dorion Sagan, a science writer, essayist, and cultural theorist, speaks about the potential for implicitly purposeful life beyond pragmatic accounts of evolution, considering the aesthetic forces that inspire dynamic ecologies. He builds upon an historical foundation laid out by Jakob von Uexküll, a particularly inspiring nineteenth-century biologist from Estonia, who ended up being vital for thinkers as dissimilar as Martin Heidegger and Deleuze & Guattari.
But what does perception or interiority mean for animals and other nonhuman lifeforms?
Dorion Sagan, a science writer, essayist, and cultural theorist, speaks about the potential for implicitly purposeful life beyond pragmatic accounts of evolution, considering the aesthetic forces that inspire dynamic ecologies. He builds upon an historical foundation laid out by Jakob von Uexküll, a particularly inspiring nineteenth-century biologist from Estonia, who ended up being vital for thinkers as dissimilar as Martin Heidegger and Deleuze & Guattari.