BSP Podcast

Season 8 concludes with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Emily Hughes   Abstract: In this paper I interpret the experience of boredom during the Covid 19 pandemic in light of Heidegger’s analysis of profound boredom, wherein time slows down and the world in its entirety becomes boring for one. For Heidegger, t...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Alessandro Anzà   Abstract: Before becoming a subject in philosophical and political studies, transgenerationality is a genetic or generative approach that reflects upon the ‘process of becoming’ of phenomena and their constitutive systems, and conceives...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Ileana Bortun   Abstract: I approach the theme of the future as a present concern from an ethico-political perspective, through an existential reading of Arendt’s account of judgment. From this perspective, “witnessing the future” is the human ability to...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from David Deamer   Abstract: Luisa Rey is reading the letters of a dead man: ‘I’m trying to understand’, she says, why ‘we keep making the same mistakes over and over’. Somewhat abashed, Adam Ewing recites a question from 12 memory, ‘how do we know what we c...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from J. Reese Faust   Abstract: Frantz Fanon closes his two major works with appeals to alter the flesh of the social world: Black Skin, White Masks pleas for a “sloughing off” of one’s skin (« un dépouillement »), while The Wretched of the Earth calls for us...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Isabel Rocamora   Abstract: My current moving image project, The Deep, focuses on Scotland’s rich and coveted natural resources to consider the impacts of human actions and technologies on the environment and local communities – groundwater contamination...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Aanastasios Dimopoulos   Abstract: Among the various effects of the recent pandemic was the need to adapt the means of delivering mental healthcare in the community. The use of online platforms which were already there as possibilities to use sparingly,...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Tomás Lally   Abstract: In this paper I want to flip the conference theme and privilege the living present. The integratedness of temporal consciousness is such that this flipping is possible. The conference theme emphasises concerns about the future in...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Ruth Irwin   Abstract: Knowledge and memory are closely entwined. The advent of technologies such as the written word, clay tablets, paper, and the printing press, have transformed knowledge transmission from the oral tradition. Technologies have been hi...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Daire Boyle   Abstract: In his 1913 work Ideas I, Edmund Husserl stated that “[c]ertainly an incorporeal and, paradoxical as it may sound, even an inanimate and non-personal consciousness is conceivable” (§54). This quote, understood in context, serves t...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Javier Moscoso Cala   Abstract: ‘A New Humanism? The Precarious Condition of the Human in Judith Butler’ To be qualified as human is a troubling matter after anti-humanistic critiques to humanness. Despite this, some thinkers such as Judith Butler have r...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Panos Theodorou   Abstract: Generally speaking, these naturalised renderings of Phenomenology aspire to show that intelligent behaviour in living beings is grounded in that they are embodied and embedded in a world that they enactively constitute. Intent...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Cătălina Condruz   Abstract: The event of birth has been a topic of concern for the phenomenological tradition and remains up to date since birth represents our starting point in life, just like dead is generally considered the last point reached. Howeve...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Melissa Burchard   Abstract: If it is true, as Tribunella argues in Melancholia and Maturation, that US culture includes a belief that children must undergo certain forms of trauma in order to become “proper” adults, then at least one sense in which the...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Siobhán Lenihan   Abstract: Recommendation engines, curated feeds, and personalisation systems of all kinds have long since become a domineering force in technologically-mediated spaces; the impetus to freely roam and to choose one's own path becoming in...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Roberto Wu   Abstract: The future is usually taken from the perspective of an absence, as a horizon that is continually projected from the present, but which is not already there. As present centered, this temporal relationship attempts to bridge the fut...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Spyridon Kaltsas   Abstract: The main aim of this paper is to explore the conceptual relations between hope and the concept of the future in the neo-pragmatism of Richard Rorty. My presentation is divided into two main sections. In order to establish my...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Tris Hedges   Abstract: Edmund Husserl’s The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology (1936) was arguably his most socio-politically influential work. Although this is mostly indebted to his conceptualisation of the Lebenswelt (life-w...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Lorenzo Buti.   Abstract: This paper reconceptualises the phenomenon of depoliticisation as the materially closing off of alternative future possibilities on the basis of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Marxist-existentialist theory of human praxis. Traditionally, po...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Tanay Gandhi   Abstract: The future is often cast in terms of images of progress or ruin, but can we imagine a future that escapes such dichotomies? What does such a radically reimagined future look like? Crucially, how can we as subjects institute a sha...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Martin Ritter   Abstract: From the perspective of the past, the future is now: tomorrow never comes – it is already here. Walter Benjamin draws attention to this fact and his late, politically engaged thought strives to do justice to it. In contrast to p...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a presentation from Alexandra S. Ilieva     Abstract: If taking “the future as a present concern” is to generate tangible effects regarding our responsibilities towards the future— in light of the ecological and humanitarian crises facing the world today—it warrants utopian...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a keynote presentation from Dr Alessandro Salice   Abstract: A spectre is haunting the phenomenological community—the spectre of phenomenological realism. All the powers of old phenomenology have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Husserl and Merleau-Pon...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a keynote presentation from Prof. Sara Heinämaa     Abstract: In The Crisis, Husserl argues that transcendental phenomenology must be understood as a scientific vocation with radical philosophical aims. However, The Crisis also gives a curiously ambiguous characterization o...

Season 8 continues with a recording from our 2021 annual conference, The Future as a Present Concern.   This episode features a keynote presentation from Prof. Shaun Gallagher     Abstract: How should we act to address climate change, racism, sexism …? These are large important problems that call for serious actions on both individual and collective scales. To think about actions on these scales o...