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Foundations of Black Epistemology: Knowledge Discourse in Africana Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY: Adebayo Oluwayomi’s Foundations of Black Epistemology reframes Fanon, Biko, and others, arguing for truth-seeking Black knowledge beyond Western foundations.
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How to Think Like a Woman
PHILOSOPHY: Feminist pioneers, academia’s hypocrisies, and the enduring legacy of prejudice in Western philosophy.
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Cinematic ethics – and dilemmas
ETHICS: What can a festival's Inspiration Forum inspire us to do? We live in a world of representations, of pictures, war manipulating us as humans, and what about our relation to nature? Can an old philosopher show us a way?
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Ethics for humanity to come
ETHICS: In the era of technology, the Western roots in Greek and Judeo-Christian traditions lose enchantment. Umberto Galimberti advocates for an ethics of aimless wandering, denouncing dominance and embracing a cosmopolitan, biocentric view that life on the earth is the measure of all things.
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The reality of capitalism and beyond
NEOLIBERALISM: Capitalist realism is a term for the late capitalist world where it is not possible to imagine a different and better one - it is what it is. Did neoliberal capital take the form of a wall-to-wall ideology, constituting an affective regime? And was the 'end of history' nothing more than a class project?
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The ecological class
ENVIRONMENT: The productivity of nature as such must include other species, ecosystems, soils, the atmosphere and the ocean.
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Devoted to a double life
RELIGION: After decades of living a secret life, a filmmaker travels to a Japanese monastery in an exploration of truth, faith and love.
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After Jean Baudrillard
Jean Baudrillard,: The best-known living philosophers from the last century can be counted on the fingers of one hand. One of them is the Frenchman Jean Baudrillard, who is coming to Oslo next Thursday.
