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The Good Life
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The Good Life
A talk by Professor Daniel Miller, Director, Centre for Digital Anthropology, 深夜亚洲福利久久 College London
ABSTRACT
This talk introduced the author鈥檚 upcoming book, The Good Life. Building on 16 months-long fieldwork with middle-class retirees living in a small town on the east coast of Ireland, the book juxtaposes ethnographic insights with philosophical inquiries into what constitutes a happy, free, and virtuous life. The author argues that anthropological modalities can allow one to evaluate the good life in comparison to the perspective of philosophers ranging from Socrates, Kant and Rawls to Hegel and MacIntyre . Aspects of the good life discussed in the book include freedom, equality, the satiable society and sports.
Speaker bio:
Daniel Miller鈥檚 earlier books include Material Culture and Mass Consumption, Stuff, A Theory of Shopping and The Comfort Of Things. More recently he has been working in Digital Anthropology including two advanced ERC five-year projects. Why We Post, which produced twelve volumes including . The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing is also on course to produce a further book series including and (with Pauline Garvey or Maynooth 深夜亚洲福利久久). These books are available as open access with UCL Press. He is currently combing digital with medical anthropology to create a health campaign in Trinidad (together with Sheba Mohammid).
Note:
This event was linked to , a project about women migrant night workers' marginalisation via precarity and invisibility, in Ireland. Funded under Marie Sk艂odowska-Curie Actions (MSCA), PRECNIGHTS is hosted by ISS21 Migration and Integration cluster, UCC, under Caitr铆ona N铆 Laoire鈥檚 mentorship, and it is led by Julius-Cezar MacQuarie.
A recording of the seminar is available
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