261 episodes
Cloud Poetry Yanyan Huang
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- Arte
Who can speak shapes?
Who can hear colors?
I speak the Tongues of the Ancients
Poetry
Readings
Journeys into the Abyss
Everyday Banality
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History of the Word: A Language History of the World
Nicholas Ostler
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Mute Compulsion: A Marxist theory on the Economic Power of Capital
Søren Mau, 2023
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Physics, Philosophy, and Theology
A Common quest for understanding. 1988
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The Social Construction of Reality
John R. Searle, 2010. This short treatise looks at how we construct a social reality from our sense impressions; at how, for example, we construct a ‘five-pound note’ with all that implies in terms of value and social meaning, from the printed piece of paper we see and touch.
In The Construction of Social Reality, eminent philosopher John Searle examines the structure of social reality (or those portions of the world that are facts only by human agreement, such as money, marriage, property, and government), and contrasts it to a brute reality that is independent of human agreement. Searle shows that brute reality provides the indisputable foundation for all social reality, and that social reality, while very real, is maintained by nothing more than custom and habit.