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 (Obama’s healthcare program), would have Read more
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 “Beyond Pluralism: Contrapuntal Responses to Read more
// \\ 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 structures that create each of Read more
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 are regarded in European and Read more
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. It’s hardly original to suggest Read more
Berlin’s Contrapuntal Agency: Or, How Admitting the Knowledge of Place Can Change Science, Politics, and Culture by Kocku von Stuckrad Do places have knowledge? Do they have memory? If places convey these to us, is this in some way agency? Read more
The Time of Loneliness by Whitney A. Bauman We live in a world of sped-up reality. Sociologists describe the fossil-fueled pace of our world as a “space-time” crunch. This means that the communities near to us are intersected by global Read more
We are excited to announce that Professor Marcia Pally joins the Counterpoint Team as our new Blog Editor. As we are building up a wider community and preparing weekly posts for our Navigating Knowledge Blog, her professional experience will be Read more
Join us for the official launch of Counterpoint: Navigating Knowledge on 25 August 2018 with an exciting program of speakers and discussions. Beyond Pluralism: Contrapuntal Responses to Culture Wars, New Nationalisms, and the Challenges of the Anthropocene Perhaps no two Read more
Beyond Epistemicide: Toward Multiple Forms of Knowledge by Joram Tarusarira Knowledge production, authentication, and dissemination require transcending a universal, fundamentalist[1] canon of thought that privileges one knowledge system at the expense of others. With modernity, a particular knowledge system came Read more