Thoughts for a spring equinox… Complexity theorist (and colleague of mine here at the University of Vermont) Stuart Kauffman takes stock here of the Enlightenment and sings of a re-enchantment to come. Disenchantment and re-enchantment are long-running tropes in the intellectual currents of modernity, which I’ve frequently explored in my writing (see here for a […]
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Enchantments to come
Posted in Spirit matter, tagged biosemiosis, disenchantment, enchantment, Kauffman, Kerouac, religion, semiosis on March 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Stuart Kauffman coming to Vermont
Posted in Academe, tagged complexity, Kauffman on November 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’m happy to share the news (a little belatedly) that complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman will be leaving his position as director of the University of Calgary’s Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics to take a position here with the University of Vermont’s Complex Systems Center, which, according to Grad College dean Dom Grasso, aims to become […]