11.2. REPAIR Scholarly Talk by Daniel Miller

Welcome to REPAIR Scholarly Talk! Professor Daniel Miller (London's Global University) will give a  talk entitled The Good Enough Life. The event takes place February 11 at 15:00 at Porthania, room P673 (Yliopistonkatu 3, 6th floor). The discussants will be announced later.

The Good Enough Life

This talk juxtaposes a philosophical enquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of the retired people in a small Irish town. The ethnography examines topics ranging from freedom and inequality to the creation of community and the purpose of life. These alternate with discussions of similar topics by a wide range of philosophers in the Western tradition, from Socrates and the Stoics through Kant, Hegel and Heidegger to Adorno, Rawls, MacIntyre and Nussbaum. By creating community as a deliberate and social project, where affluence has not led to an increase in individualism, the people in this Irish town have found a way to live the good enough life. The talk also shows how anthropology and philosophy can complement and enrich one another in an inquiry into the good life.

Professor Daniel Miller (University College London) currently runs the MSc in Digital Anthropology and is director of the Centre for Digital Anthropology at UCL.

Over ten years Miller directed first the Why We Post project on the use and consequences of social media. Followed by The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA). The project comprised 11 researchers who conducted simultaneous 16 month ethnographies across nine countries. The two projects have resulted in the publication of twenty volumes.

 



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