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There could be no better theme for a lecture series on natural religion than that of Gaia, this puzzling figure that has emerged recently in public discourse from Earth science as well as from many activist and spiritual movements. The problem is that the expression of "natural religion" is somewhat of a pleonasm, since Western definitions of nature borrow so much from theology. The set of lectures attempts to decipher the face of Gaia in order to redistribute the notions that have been packed too tightly into the composite notion of "natural religion".
Lecture 1 - 'Once Out of Nature' - Natural Religion as a Pleonasm: 00:00
Lecture 2 - A Shift in Agency - with apologies to David Hume: 00:53:24
Lecture 3 - The Puzzling Face of a Secular Gaia: 01:44:52
Lecture 4 - The Anthropocene and the Destruction of the Image of the Globe: 02:43:52
Lecture 5 - War of the Worlds: Humans against Earthbound: 03:35:43
Lecture 6 - Inside the 'Planetary Boundaries': Gaia's Estate: 04:34:38
Facing Gaia by Bruno Latour: amzn.to/2Lx92Di
There could be no better theme for a lecture series on natural religion than that of Gaia, this puzzling figure that has emerged recently in public discourse from Earth science as well as from many activist and spiritual movements. The problem is that the expression of "natural religion" is somewhat of a pleonasm, since Western definitions of nature borrow so much from theology. The set of lectures attempts to decipher the face of Gaia in order to redistribute the notions that have been packed too tightly into the composite notion of "natural religion".
Lecture 1 - 'Once Out of Nature' - Natural Religion as a Pleonasm: 00:00
Lecture 2 - A Shift in Agency - with apologies to David Hume: 00:53:24
Lecture 3 - The Puzzling Face of a Secular Gaia: 01:44:52
Lecture 4 - The Anthropocene and the Destruction of the Image of the Globe: 02:43:52
Lecture 5 - War of the Worlds: Humans against Earthbound: 03:35:43
Lecture 6 - Inside the 'Planetary Boundaries': Gaia's Estate: 04:34:38
Facing Gaia by Bruno Latour: amzn.to/2Lx92Di
