Currents 010: Tyson Yunkaporta on Humans As Custodial Species - a podcast by .

Jim talks to Tyson Yunkaporta about what makes us a custodial species, time, increase vs growth, complex systems intervention, domestication, and much more...





In this Currents episode, Jim talks to Tyson Yunkaporta about seeing humanity as a custodial species, our unique capacities, creation myths, the significance of the human hand, haptic cognition, tool making&syntactic language, our singing instinct, in-between space&interactions, GameB, information velocity, currency, humanity getting off track, seeing time as an arrow&the lie of progress, the illusion of time, interest's future discounting, increase vs growth, unplanned outcomes in complex systems intervention, ritual as an abstract metaphor, wisdom&turnaround, the danger of our domestication, and more.

Episode TranscriptTyson’s book, Sand Talk
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Jim's currency talk, Dividend Money
The Land Is the Source of the Law by C.F. BlackTyson Yunkaporta is an academic, an arts critic, and a researcher who is a member of the Apalech Clan in far north Queensland. He carves traditional tools and weapons and also works as a senior lecturer in Indigenous Knowledges at Deakin University in Melbourne. He lives in Melbourne and is the author of Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World.

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