Emily Levine: A trickster’s theory of everything
Philosopher-comedian Emily Levine talks (hilariously) about science, math, society and the way everything connects. She’s a brilliant trickster, poking holes in our fixed ideas and bringing hidden truths to light. Settle in and let her ping your brain.
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ABOUT Emily Levine
“Humorist Emily Levine works a heady vein of humor, cerebral and thoughtful as well as very, very amusing. Oh, she’s got plenty of jokes.
But her work, at its core, makes serious connections between hard science and pop culture, between what we say and what we secretly assume. She plumbs the hidden oppositions, the untouchable not-quite-truths of the modern mind.
Her background in improv theatre, with its requirement to always say ‘yes’ to the other actor’s reality, has helped shape her worldview. Always suspicious of sharp either/or distinctions, she proposes ‘the quantum logic of and/and’, a thoroughly post modern, scientifically informed take on life that allows for complicated states of being. Like the one we’re in right now.”
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