Programm

13 Januar 2014
18:00

In this lecture, A. Jamie Saries explores the issues of choice and need satisfaction through the lens of “addiction”. Beginning with a brief description of the treatment of a self-described “addict”, he examines the role of “appetites” in Western Social Theory. As growth and complexity have emerged as objects of anxiety, even apocalyptic fear, in the last few decades, the terms “addict” and “addiction” have seemed ever apt for modelling these concerns. But other entities also serve this purpose, fictional entities, such vampires and zombies. Jamie Saris argues that these ways of thinking through unchecked and damaging consumption are mutually enlightening.