La nueva Ilustración Evolucionista: La gran borrachera de la civilización
“En el libro Drunk (traducido por la Editorial Debate al español: Borrachos), el filósofo y sinólogo Edward Slingerland expone esta sorprendente hipótesis, apoyado en un conjunto de evidencias extraídas de estudios antropológicos y paleoantropológicos, arqueológicos, históricos, literarios, sociológicos, psicológicos y neurocientíficos, etológicos y evolucionistas. ”
“La Gran Borrachera De La Civilización,” La Nueva Ilustración Evolucionista, October 12, 2022
UBC Trek: The taste for intoxicants
“We’re all familiar with the dark side of alcohol and yet, for all its negative effects, one thing has held true for thousands of years: humanity’s love for intoxicants.”
“The Taste for Intoxicants,” UBC Trek, June 22, 2021
Religious Studies News: big data approach to history
“While users can use the DRH similarly to an encyclopedia—that is, looking at individual entries—the database also reflects a Big Data approach to comparing and understanding large scale patterns or trends in the historical record.
Yes, although you can browse individual entries as in an encyclopedia, the DRH is actually a relational database with all of the powerful functionality that comes with the ability to manipulate data on a large scale. Answers to the various poll questions are ultimately grounded only in space and time, which allows users to analyze answers to specific questions within certain date ranges and geographical areas, to correlate answers with other types of geo-spacial data, or to visualize DRH data in a variety of ways.”
“Making Religious History Digitally Native,”Religious Studies News, March 2nd 2017
The Atlantic: moving through the world at once effortlessly and effectively
“Trying hasn’t gone out of style. It was never in style. Cool is in style, and cool means moving through the world at once effortlessly and effectively.
Woven into most of our natures is a cumbersome desire to be accepted and liked. At odds with that is the equally natural tendency to be turned off by people who wear that desire on their sleeves. If you, like me, essentially reek of effort in all that you do, such that people can sense it blocks away, and it makes you unattractive socially and intellectually, and it makes babies cry, can you practice and learn to cultivate a genuinely spontaneous approach to life? Is it possible to be deliberately less deliberate?”
James Hamblin, “How Not to Try,” The Atlantic, March 21st 2014.
The University of British Columbia: Taoism [Daoism] and pop culture
““I was always interested in Taoism,” Professor Edward Slingerland says, “and now that I’m a scholar of this stuff, I find a lot of the students who take classes from me have similar motivations to the ones I once had.”
Slingerland, parallel to many of his students, was motivated to study Taoism by its influence on pop culture icons, like the celebrated 1950s and 1960s American writers of the “Beat Generation” troupe. Having studied it formally, he’s found that his initial motivation was somewhat misdirected as these influences are basically mistaken about Taoism and Zen.”
“Meet Dr. Edward Slingerland: Taoism with a twist,” The University of British Columbia, November 4th 2010.