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Contagion and Viruses

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Contagion and Viruses

FromArts & Ideas

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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Mar 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Matthew Sweet investigates viruses and how they could disrupt our understanding of the nature of organisms, and looks at what history can teach us about the current pandemic. With philosopher John Dupré, historian Mark Honigsbaum, New Generation Thinker Lisa Mullen and artist Matt Adams who works with Blast Theory.

Mark Honigsbaum is the author of The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris.
Lisa Mullen has written Mid-Century Gothic: The Uncanny Objects of Modernity in British Literature and Culture after the Second World War.
Professor John Dupré is director of the Centre for the Study of Life Sciences, and professor of philosophy at the University of Exeter.
You can find about Matt Adams' work at https://www.blasttheory.co.uk/

Producer: Luke Mulhall

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Released:
Mar 19, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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