[Unedited] James Bridle with Krista Tippett

On Being with Krista Tippett

On Being Studios

Society, Spirituality, Society & Culture, Sociology, Culture, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Krista Tippett, Social Sciences, On Being, Arts

4.7 • 10.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 March 2023

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

You might want to take a walk with this one. It is big and full of brain food and an enlivening opening of imagination to possibilities that are emergent now: the notion of the “broad commonwealth of life” that we are “inextricably entangled with and suffused by”; the paradox that the more accurately you try to measure some things, the more unmeasurable they become; the way words we use all the time have kept our cellular belonging to the natural world alive, even as civilization forgot.

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0:00.0	Support for On Being with Christa Tippett comes from the Fetzer Institute.
0:03.8	Fetzer supports a movement of organizations that are applying spiritual solutions
0:08.0	to society's toughest problems. Learn more at Fetzer.org.
0:14.1	I'm Christa Tippett, up next, yes, an extra offering alongside this week's shorter produced show,
0:20.8	my full, sprawling, unedited conversation with James Bridal.
0:25.6	They are an artist, technologist, and author of the fascinating new book, Ways of Being,
0:31.6	Animals, Plants, Machines, the Search for a Planetary Intelligence.
0:38.3	Yeah, hi, James. Oh, hello.
0:41.9	Chris, I'm hearing a little echo coming back at me.
0:46.3	Yeah. Yeah, it's still there.
0:50.2	Okay, it's gone. Yeah.
0:57.1	I'm so glad to meet you, although meeting in this way.
1:01.5	It's very nice to hear from you. Thank you for the nice things you've been writing about the book.
1:05.3	I know a newsletter. Oh, Jill's. Yeah, so, um, well, I know Alexia will tell us.
1:10.3	Let's go ahead and start and I'll tell you the story.
1:19.4	I was here.
1:23.7	Er, loud and clear, loud and clear.
1:31.7	You can take it down a slight notch if you like. That'd be fine.
1:38.8	Okay. All right. Yeah, I think it sounds great.
1:42.4	Um, yeah, I, um, you know, there was some serendipity in,
1:49.7	in me, reading your book and getting to really delve into it the way I did.
1:55.5	Um, I mean, obviously I read a lot for my work,
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