Podcast: Flowing with Entropy

The ecological crisis is foremost a crisis in our ways of thinking. In "The Ecology of Ideas" podcast, CBS Associate professor and digital ecologist Attila Márton converses with thought leaders in an attempt to learn about how we have to change our philosophies to develop an ecologic style of thinking. In this episode, the concept of Flowing with Entropy is discussed, as well as how cosmic ecology expands our sense of connection beyond the planet, and how moving with entropy offers a new way to understand our place in the universe.

By CBS Executive Education

We often think of ecology as something related to planetary nature. What if it is about the entire universe?

In this episode, Attila Márton talks with Thomas Nail, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver, who introduces us to the idea of cosmic ecology. At the center is the notion of entropy as the natural tendency of energy to dissipate across the cosmos.

Thomas challenges the common view that entropy is something to fight against. Instead, he suggests that we are already part of this process and that we forgot how to move with it. This episode opens up a new way of thinking about ecology that connects us not just to the planet, but to the flow of the universe itself.

This episode is part of the Ecology of Ideas podcast.

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Attila Márton is Associate Professor at the Department of Digitalisation at CBS.

His primary research areas are:

Ecological Thinking and the Future(s) of Organisation
The Political Ecology of AI
Transplanetary Ecology

Attila looks at making digitalisation serve humanity: "I call myself a digital ecologist, as I am drawing on ecological thinking to understand our “togetherness” when it comes to the digital transformation of fundamental aspects of the human condition and beyond. To this effect, I am currently exploring the co-evolutionary dynamics between platforms and their respective ecosystems, the political ecology of digital labour and AI, the sociology of digital knowledge and forgetting, and, when I get to it, the expansion of humanity into outer space."

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