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Same Space, Different Place

June 16, 2020

The recent spread of a new biological menace — the novel virus SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2) — has completely changed the appearance of our cities for months: during the lockdown period, the virus that caused the Coronavirus Disease 2019, or COVID-19, literally transformed the familiar places we were used to, into ghost territories. Image 1: Places are…

Books, Philosophy of Nature

The Place of Processes: Nature and Life

June 16, 2020

In October 1933 the British philosopher and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead delivered two lectures at the University of Chicago, published with the title ‘Nature and Life’, the following year.[1] The content of those two lectures, now in the public domain, is available in the Internet Archive. What follows is the integral transcription of the second lecture. Many of the arguments…