Introducing the Honeycomb
Introducing the Honeycomb
Here's the map of where to find what
Hello everyone ❤️.
The Love & Philosophy channel reached 23,000 subscribers recently, so it feels like a good moment to organise and share this initiative here. I would also like to invite your participation in creating this community, and the other communities listed below, as we make our way.
The projects live at many intersections, from philosophy and phenomenology to neuroscience, mobility, heritage, and technology; these themes may seem very different at first, but that are deeply connected and entangled. The hope here is to connect across traditional divides towards new ways of moving and being moved. Below I list each prismatic and invite your participation in all that resonate. Thank you for sharing this journey!
Love and Philosophy Beyond Dichotomy
This is a research channel and a podcast. There is also a connected Patreon and Substack.
You Tube Channel: Love & Philosophy, Beyond Dichotomy
Love & Philosophy on Spotify
Love & Philosophy on Apple
This project started as research conversations towards noticing the patterns that connect across traditional divides.
I'd been cautioned not to exceed the edges and limits of this or that discipline, or this or that philosophy, or this or that field of research or genre of research, but my research always moved beyond such bounds. The same felt true relative to passions and love, both individual and ecological. So I started having conversations Beyond Dichotomy, and posting them here.
I opened myself beyond traditional distinctions, towards learning and development. This podcast is where those voices gather together in one space.
The main goal is to have conversations across disciplines to understand how our approach to life and cognition might address some of the urgent divides we face today.
By love and philosophy, I mean the people, passions, and ideas that move us, shape the trajectories of our lives, and co-create our wider social landscapes.
Partly due to my trajectory in philosophy, technology, & the cognitive sciences, I’m hoping to better observe binary distinctions in our academic & personal lives: What positive roles have these structures played? How might rethinking these structures & their parameters open new paths & ecological potentials?
Way and Lifeworld
Way & Lifeworld is a substack that explores philosophical ideas across the usual divides of philosophy, science and spirituality.
Way & Lifeworld is also a space for exploring, creating, recommending, criticising & improving the philosophy I’ve been developing (the Way-making framework and Navigability). Here I respond to and welcome advice and (well-meaning) criticism from others as I try to relate philosophical ideas across walks of life and disciplines.
This is a place to explore where and how the way-making approach is helpful, to champion the many people who have inspired it and its ideas, and to clarify how it relates to other areas of inquiry and scholarship, as there is nothing new under the sun.
This comes in a spirit of community; the point is to grow philosophy together.
What really matters in this life? How do meaningful philosophical and scientific pursuits change how we experience the world? How do the ways we frame our experience (whether consciously or not) become the ways we make in it, or the ways that make future generations?
These writings sketch and illustrate the philosophy of way-making, a work in progress, and ask for your participation in showing me what I might have missed or what I can improve or how it would be more relevant to your own work and life.
Ecological Motoring Initiative
Vehicles change everything from our cities to our mindsets, but we rarely connect the dots between. Movement is sensual and ecological and we need new forms of motoring for a new earth
The Ecological Motoring Intiative Substack and its related podcast Forever Motoring are spaces to rethink what is meant by ‘forever’ and ‘motoring’ while appreciating all that moves us and the rich resonance and history or our various forms of transportation.
EMI works to initiative conversations, connections, and collaborations towards finding ways to meet the motoring needs of all within the means of the living planet (🍩).
EMI looks at how we might transcend traditional dichotomies around machines and ecologies and bring people together around common needs towards a new notion of motoring.
We are moved at so many levels and through so many different landscapes, be those physical, emotional, mental or virtual. From city designers to coders to car manufacturers, we can work together to create a better vision for motoring.
Our minds have been channeled in part by the ways we motor--the ways we move ourselves, our materials, and our ideas. Ecological transportation begins with understanding that the vehicles and infrastructures moving us are also creating cognitive systems.
A 'motor' powers any vehicle that moves us, and our vehicles come at different scales.
Whether it is in a bike, a car, computing equipment, or a piece of music, the motor is the part of that vehicle that moves us consistently and structures the ways and means of our movement.
We believe part of the work to be done is in noticing and better understanding the current cognitive systems being created by our forms of motoring, observing the ways they structure our daily lives and activities, and moving into the desirable unknown with a new vision of what motoring can be, including its means and materials. This is also related to academic work we do regarding cities and mobility.
How can we meet the motoring needs of all in a way that is ecological? What does it mean to move within the means of the living planet? How can we move in ways that inspire and motivate us and increase our potentials longterm?
Further links:
Personal website for Andrea Hiott
Andrea on LinkedIn
Website for Love & Philosophy
Website for Ecological Orientation
Website for the Ecological Motoring Initiative
Active Inference Institute, Sign up for Substack
Brandenburg Institute of Technology
Doeller Lab Max Planck Institute Leipzig
Website for podcast Forever Motoring
Love & Philosophy on Spotify
Love & Philosophy on Apple
A list of links to L & P for many other podcast platforms
Writings and resources about Way-ability and Navigability in Cities
Desirable Unknown podcast and You Tube