Hyperland is the new Podcast by David Malone and Ian Stroud.
David Malone is an award winning science documentary film maker of more years than he cares to admit. He also wrote the GolemXIV blog which covered the political and financial idiocy of the never ending financial crisis
Ian Stroud is a film editor of even more years who worked with David on the series “Why are we here?”
Hyperland covers science, politics and finance where all three poke at the instabilities of our teetering system.
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Hyperland is the new Podcast by David Malone and Ian Stroud.
David Malone is an award winning science documentary film maker of more years than he cares to admit. He also wrote the GolemXIV blog which covered the political and financial idiocy of the never ending financial crisis
Ian Stroud is a film editor of even more years who worked with David on the series “Why are we here?”
Hyperland covers science, politics and finance where all three poke at the instabilities of our teetering system.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
How do we understand the world and our place in it? Do our lives consist of a small number of dramatic turning points, or is there nothing but a series of gradual changes from infancy to old age? Are political elections genuinely transformational, or merely arbitrary points along a shifting cultural timeline? And in physics, how can the continuities of general relativity coexist with the discontinuities of quantum theory?
In Waves and Stones, Graham Harman shows that this paradoxical interaction – the question of whether reality is made up of sudden jumps, or is laid out along a gentle gradient with no clear divisions between the various things in the world – permeates every area of human life. What’s more, this paradox is as old as human thought itself. In exploring how the continuous and discrete relate to each other, he takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey from the philosophers of ancient Greece, through the writings of the great Arab historian Ibn Khaldun, through architectural and evolutionary theory, the compatibility of religion with science, and the wave-particle duality of matter.
To explore the relationship between the continuous and the discrete, Harman shows, is to consider the very fabric of reality. With this dazzling new book, he proposes a new way of thinking about this ancient problem, with profound implications for our understanding of ourselves and the bewilderingly complex world in which we live.
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/313185/waves-and-stones-by-harman-graham/9780241392867
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Music by HYPERLAND
Graphics by Caroline Large
Image NASA ID: PIA12348 Secondary Creator Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/CXC/STScI
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