BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:13271-0daa232a635580bdf6a04bc0d55cf3a6@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260412T065046Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160115T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160115T163000 SUMMARY:Joshua DiCaglio “Scaling the Involution, or, The Cybernetics of Persuasi on” DESCRIPTION:\nModern science brings to our attention whole new scales of being\, from cells and neurotransmitters to ecological webs and galacti c distances. In the aftermath of the death of the humanist subject\, the se scalar descriptions present a new question: on what scale does interp retation\, persuasion\, or meaning exist? Who is the entity that persuad es or is being persuaded? These questions become more potent as we attem pt to adjust to the ecological impacts of the Anthropocene: how do we be come persuaded by the reality of this larger-scale relationship? This ta lk connects the scalar developments of science to contemplative articula tions of scale (in which individuals encounter a higher reality)\, rerea ding the ancient declaration to “know thyself” with the scales and loops of cybernetics and information. An account of the “I” who scales bring s into view the primary obstacles to persuasion as we examine more preci sely the scaled nature of this entity to be in-formed.\n\nFor more detai ls: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/joshua-dicaglio-scaling-the-involuti on-or-the-cybernetics-of-persuasion/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Modern science brings to our attention whole new scales of being, from cells and neurot ransmitters to ecological webs and galactic distances. In the aftermath of the death of the humanist subject, these scalar descriptions present a new question: on what scale does interpretation, persuasion, or meanin g exist? Who is the entity that persuades or is being persuaded? These q uestions become more potent as we attempt to adjust to the ecological im pacts of the Anthropocene: how do we become persuaded by the reality of this larger-scale relationship? This talk connects the scalar developmen ts of science to contemplative articulations of scale (in which individu als encounter a higher reality), rereading the ancient declaration to “k now thyself” with the scales and loops of cybernetics and information. An account of the “I” who scales brings into view the primary obstacles to persuasion as we examine more precisely the scaled nature of this ent ity to be in-formed.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/joshua-dicaglio-scaling- the-involution-or-the-cybernetics-of-persuasion/

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