Professor Andrew Samuels:
The Trick of Change: Can Artifice Save Nature?
Human ingenuity and creativity are needed for the vision of a sustainable future to be achieved. In part, this means looking to the tricks and deceptions of artifice and artificiality. All too often, environmental campaigners and proponents of the new economics seem deeply wedded to doing things ‘naturally’, to an idea of ‘nature’ that, without the balance that artifice provides, is just hopelessly sentimental. Alongside a punchy talk about all of this, with literary examples and no psychological jargon, I’ll explore artifice via one of its most extreme and venerable examples - our use of perfume. In our time together, using bottles and sprays, we will smell our way to sustainability.
Strand: Sustainable Consciousness & Psychology
Type of event: Presentation plus experiential bits
Place: Room 1 upstairs in Primary School
Starts: 17:00
Ends: 18:00
Presenter's Personal/Professional Background: Professor Andrew Samuels
Jungian Analyst, Professor of Analytical Psychology
Andrew Samuels is a political activist and consultant, university professor, writer and Jungian analyst. He has a long track record in what has become ecopsychology, publishing his first article on it in 1989. He has published many books that have been translated into 19 languages, including ‘The Political Psyche’ and ‘Politics on the Couch’.
Email: andrew@andrewsamuels.net
Website: http://www.andrewsamuels.com
Recommended links: www.andrewsamuels.com
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Professor Andrew Samuels: The Trick of Change: Can Artifice Save Nature?
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