E138| Presence And The Machine w/ Andrea Hiott, Simon van der Els, Anna Gyllenklev, Tim Adalin
What is presence? How can we inoculate against coercive programming? How does presence relate to the revolutionary subject? This dialogue welcomes philosopher and neuroscientist and host of Love and Philosophy, Andrea Hiott, microbiologist and shamanic practitioner Simon van der Els, design ontologist Anna Gyllenklev, in dialogue with philosopher Tim Adalin.
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Keywords
presence, conversation, connection, philosophy, embodiment, grief, vulnerability, dialogue, memory, transformation, political consciousness, revolutionary subjectivity, fungi, composting modernity, loving structures, attention, business models, fractals, design
Chapters
0:00:00 - Introducing the topic of presence and cultivating attention
0:06:15 - Unusual frequencies and holding tension in conversation
0:13:44 - Physical grounding and what we bring into dialogue
0:19:32 - Attention, body language, and focus points
0:26:00 - Western mystery traditions and staying present with dissolution
0:37:15 - Fungal metaphors for decomposition and revolutionary subjects
0:46:45 - Grief, memory, and imagined futures
0:59:00 - Orbiting the center: labyrinths and non-linear journeys
1:26:00 - Violated membranes, dissociation, and designing for love
1:46:20 - Attention, maintenance, and holding multitudes
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Andrea Hiott is a philosopher and researcher born in South Carolina. She holds degrees in neuroscience, philosophy and world heritage (civil engineering, UNESCO), and is currently at Universität Heidelberg in Germany, where she works as a doctoral researcher in the philosophy faculty. Hiott completed her Master's thesis with the Berlin School of Mind and Brain at Humboldt Universität, working with labs at the Max Planck Institute and the University of Ottawa. Her interdisciplinary work weaves together philosophy, neuroscience, and urban studies, developing a philosophy of mind "beyond dichotomy" centered on concepts of way-making and navigability. Hiott is the author of several books, including "Thinking Small" which was named by Jerry Seinfeld in The New York Times as his literary guilty pleasure, and the upcoming "Holding Paradox". She has worked extensively in areas of transportation, technology, and development, and hosts podcasts including Love & Philosophy.
Watch / Listen to Love & Philosophy here: https://www.youtube.com/@waymaking23
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Anna Gyllenklev is a Swedish design ecologist and systems innovation strategist exploring how humans, human-made systems, and natural given life systems intertwine. She is the co-founder of Systems Innovation Sweden and leads Untra Lab, where she develops frameworks, tools, and experiential methods that help us imagine and design for other types of futures. Educated at top universities in technology, design, and business, Anna’s work spans from experimenting with material ontologies – such as living and decaying products – to guiding systemic transformation in areas like the food system, the educational system, and future business models. Her practice bridges the known and the unknown, inviting you to reframe reality and design new ones.
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Simon van der Els is a student of the invisible realm. He holds a PhD title in the empirical tradition of molecular microbiology. He also explores the subjective realm of shamanism, as a way of re-discovering the interiority of the living cosmos, and assisting in healing of Gaia. He enjoys time in nature, dance and other sensory embodied experiences. Dialogue is one of the practices in which he can encounter flowstate, and this is one of his favorite activities.
Connect with Simon @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-van-der-els-66434b231/ -
Tim is the founder of Voicecraft and a philosopher with a focus on the relation between participation and transformation.
You can work with Tim individually @ https://www.timadalin.xyz
On X @ https://x.com/tim_adalin
And on LinkedIn @ https://www.linkedin.com/in/tim-adalin/
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