News and Events - Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge

Our Hitch-Up Culture By Anna Mercedes I teach in an American university culture where there is a lot of concern about the students’ casual hook-up culture—a too-fast coupling without long-term Read more…

September 26, 2018

Events

Symposium: Paradoxe Plausibilität(en): Astrologische Deutung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven

Paradoxe Plausibilität(en): Astrologische Deutung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven Paradoxical Plausibilities: Astrological Interpretation from Different Perspectives (event conducted in German) An interdisciplinary symposium, co-sponsored by the German Astrologers’ Association and Counterpoint 13–14 April 2019 in Berlin When Read more…

September 24, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

What It Means to Deny Climate Change

What It Means to Deny Climate Change By Susannah Crockford On 26 August 2018, sixty academics, environmentalists, and politicians released an open letter asserting that they will no longer debate with those who deny anthropogenic Read more…

September 19, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

Perception and the Platypus

Perception and the Platypus By Jay Johnston I was desperate to see a platypus. Standing on riverbanks I would look out, simultaneously expectant and forlorn, scanning for signs of this notoriously shy monotreme. The platypus Read more…

September 12, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

Social media as religion – unexamined desire and (mis-in)formation

Social media as religion – a tale of unexamined desire and (mis-in)formation by Dion Forster It could be said that social media is the most prevalent religion of our time. Like other faiths, it forms Read more…

September 5, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

A Crisis for Governance and a Boon for Populism

Uncoupling Democracy’s Forms from their Purposes: A Crisis for Governance and a Boon for Populism by Marcia Pally I’m still pondering this bit of data: Americans who, under the proposed Republican replacement for Obamacare Read more…

August 29, 2018

News

Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge Successfully Launched

Major Themes and Insights for the Work of the New Center On 25 August 2018, Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge was officially launched with a stimulating program of speakers and discussions in Berlin. The general theme being Read more…

August 28, 2018

Art and Fiction

Cleo Mikutta: // \\, Part 1

// \\ By Cleo Mikutta “It is hard to write a beautiful song. It is harder to write several individually beautiful songs that, when sung simultaneously, sound as a more beautiful polyphonic whole. The internal Read more…

August 24, 2018

Short Essays

Making Senses: Poetic Knowledge of Nature in Science, Art, and Shamanic Ritual

Making Senses: Poetic Knowledge of Nature in Science, Art, and Shamanic Ritual by Kocku von Stuckrad Download a PDF Version of this essay (6 MB) Abstract The five senses of seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching Read more…

August 24, 2018

Counterpoint Blog

Counterpoint: Conducting Edward Said’s ‘And Also’

Counterpoint: Conducting Edward Said’s ‘And Also’ by Alissa Jones Nelson Binaries are bogus constructions. We live in a world of continuum, of three-dimensional spiral. Linear progress is a myth we’ve told ourselves almost to death. Read more…

August 23, 2018

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Counterpoint Blog

Our Hitch-Up Culture

Events

Symposium: Paradoxe Plausibilität(en): Astrologische Deutung aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven

Counterpoint Blog

What It Means to Deny Climate Change

Counterpoint Blog

Perception and the Platypus

Counterpoint Blog

A Crisis for Governance and a Boon for Populism

News

Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge Successfully Launched

Art and Fiction

Cleo Mikutta: // \\, Part 1

Short Essays

Making Senses: Poetic Knowledge of Nature in Science, Art, and Shamanic Ritual

Counterpoint Blog

Counterpoint: Conducting Edward Said’s ‘And Also’

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