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May 2021
Goethe’s Morphology: A Device for Exploring and Generating Complexity
Join us for the third in our new series of free monthly talks on the subject of Holistic Science, organised by Schumacher College in collaboration with the Field Centre. For this talk we’re delighted to welcome Dr Oriane Petteni. This talk approaches the Goethean Morphology as the forerunner of contemporary techniques of pattern generation via natural computing and computer graphics. I propose to read Goethe’s Morphology as an original device of reduction, departing from the phenomenological realm to intuit nature’s self-generating…
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Alfred North Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism
Join us for the fourth in our new series of free monthly talks on the subject of Holistic Science, organised by Schumacher College in collaboration with the Field Centre. For this talk we’re delighted to welcome Matthew D. Segall. This talk introduces Alfred North Whitehead’s “Philosophy of Organism,” a novel metaphysical scheme that he articulated in the first half of the twentieth century not only as a protest against the lifeless Nature imagined by scientific materialism, but also as a rejection of…
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