From Adam’s web page:
I run a publication called The Side View. We are an independent publisher that integrates theory and practice, while running parallel to academic and public conversations. We publish a journal, online and in print, and a podcast that explores the nature of perception and attention by having conversations with architects, cognitive scientists, athletes, philosophers, contemplatives, and more. We have an online shop, and you can learn more about us here, or on Twitter, Facebook, Patreon, and most podcast platforms.
I am also a philosopher by training. My first book is contracted with Revelore Press, and will be finished in the fall of 2020. The book is about askēsis (exercise) and its relation to perception. Askēsis aims at a transformation of perception through a variety of exercises, including contemplative practice, philosophy, athletics, art, and more. These practices are concerned with the development of our inner and outer senses. You can read a draft excerpt here. I write about these themes on my blog, on Medium, and on Twitter.
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From the About section of their Facebook Page:
The Side View is about the knowledge and intuition we use to navigate the world. It’s about how our minds meet the world, but it’s also about how our minds, when trained in the right way, change how we perceive what’s around us and within us. In other words, The Side View is about how we become skillful perceivers and doers, people who know, in the moment, the right details to attend to and the right actions to take.
The idea is that we can develop new ways of making sense of things, ways that change what we’re able to do in the world. From our perspective, sense-making is its own kind of craft, and the medium of this craft isn’t paint or stone or wood, but your own perception. Perception on this view is a skill you can shape through practice. We see our ability to pay attention to things as an art of its own. It’s an art of looking at things in a certain way.
These are good tag lines for The Side View—attention is an art form; perception is a skill—but when we dig deeper into what this approach really means, to what it makes possible for us in our lives, we find something more interesting: When we start to look at our own perception in this way, we find that we can actually take hold of some of these dynamics and change them. In a way, the whole process of learning is about creating these transformations in perception. The Side View is about making sense of this process. By looking at perception and experience, we’re making sense of how we make sense.
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Last 50 posts on own channels (YouTube, Podcast, Medium or Website/Blog):
Casseroles — Rich Mexican Corn
Published on: 27 Mar 23 in Adam Robbert – Medium
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Easy Grilled Lemon Chicken — Meat and Poultry — Chicken Breast
Published on: 22 Mar 23 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by AE Robbert
Grilled Greek Potatoes — Potato
Published on: 15 Mar 23 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by AE Robbert
Gin Drinks — Bee’s Knees Cocktail
Published on: 7 Mar 23 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by AE Robbert
Cookies — Oatmeal Buttermilk Cookies
Published on: 28 Feb 23 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by AE Robbert
Revisioning Reason and Spiritual Exercise
Published on: 25 Sep 20 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
Askēsis and Care of the Soul
Published on: 17 Jul 20 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
Philosophy: The Practice for Death and Dying for The Stoa
Published on: 4 Apr 20 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
Pierre Hadot: Philosophy and Askēsis
Published on: 27 Jan 20 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
Askēsis in Art and Aesthetics
Published on: 21 Jan 20 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
Logos, Epistrophē, and Paraskeuē
Published on: 16 Jan 20 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
The Primacy of Practice in the Modern World
Published on: 13 Jan 20 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
Against Depressive Realism
Published on: 10 Jan 20 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
Peter Sloterdijk: Athletics and Anthropotechnics
Published on: 9 Jan 20 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
Perceptual Learning as Intuition-Making
Published on: 5 Jan 20 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
Who or What Is the Self?
Published on: 5 Dec 19 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
What Is Askēsis?
Published on: 28 Nov 19 in Adam Robbert – Medium
by Adam Robbert
In the current era of increasing planetary interconnectedness, ecological theories and practices are called to become more inclusive, complex, and comprehensive. The diverse contributions to this book offer a range of integral approaches to ecology that cross the boundaries of the humanities and sciences and help us understand and respond to today’s ecological challenges. The contributors provide detailed analyses of assorted integral ecologies, drawing on such founding figures and precursors as Thomas Berry, Leonardo Boff, Holmes Rolston III, Ken Wilber, and Edgar Morin. Also included is research across the social sciences, biophysical sciences, and humanities discussing multiple worldviews and perspectives related to integral ecologies. The Variety of Integral Ecologies is both an accessible guide and an advanced supplement to the growing research for a more comprehensive understanding of ecological issues and the development of a peaceful, just, and sustainable planetary civilization.
Transcripts of a collection of podcasts from The Side View Podcast
The latest issue of The Side View Journal. Topics include ecology of practices, metamodernism, memetic mediation, Game B, integral philosophy, collective intelligence, the meaning crisis, warm data, meta-rationality, sensemaking, long-term thinking, & more.
Recent Videos and Podcasts where Adam Robbert has been interviewed
Jared Janes and Jason Snyder talk with Adam Robbert about why he started The Side View. Then they explore why the practice element of philosophy has become less present recently,
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In this conversation Adam Roberts (@knowledgeecology) and I explore the idea of philosophical inquiry as perceptual transformation. We talk about the relationship between conceptuality and perception, the contemplative practice that
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Casseroles — Rich Mexican CornThis recipe came from my step-mom in Dallas, Texas. They like it hot so they put in a few extra jalapenos.
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Easy Grilled Lemon Chicken — Meat and Poultry — Chicken BreastLemon juice, ground ginger, and soy sauce are the base for this easy, made-in-minutes marinade that’s a perfect enhancement for grilled, boneless chicken breasts.
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Grilled Greek Potatoes — PotatoSeasoned with lemon juice, garlic, and Greek seasoning, these grilled potatoes will be a hit at your next cookout.
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Gin Drinks — Bee’s Knees CocktailThis gin cocktail is slightly sweet, slightly citrusy, and entirely cool.
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Cookies — Oatmeal Buttermilk CookiesSpicy oatmeal cookies with the tangy zip of buttermilk.
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Revisioning Reason and Spiritual ExerciseThe French philosopher and historian Pierre Hadot dedicated his career to rendering an image of philosophy as a way of life. This way of life, Hadot
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In the lectures published as Plato and Europe, Jon Patočka (1907–1977) asks a series of questions: What does the soul mean? What is its significance? and What does it me
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A talk on Plato’s Phaedo, as well as the work of Pierre Hadot, Thomas Merton, and others.Continue reading on Medium »
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Hadot’s historical work includes treatments of pre-Socratic philosophy, Platonism and Aristotelianism, the Hellenistic and Roman periods, the Middle Ages, and the modern era. I have selected only a handful of
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I noted earlier that Platonic askēsis, as seen in the beholding of the vision of beauty described in the Symposium, is a kind of aesthetic askēsis, which is also capable
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The notion that askēsis is as much additive as privative is central to Foucault’s larger discussion of the term. Readers will recognize a connection with Hadot when Foucault writes, “This
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The definition Hadot gives of philosophy as a spiritual exercise, in addition to the links between Greek philosophy, Christian monastic practice, and aesthetics I’ve just highlighted, makes it clear that
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I’ve heard a few times over the years people associate metacognitive observation (of thoughts, feelings, actions, etc.) with a kind of despair, depression, or alienation, as though this were a
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I’ll leave aside for the moment the larger conversation one could develop around Hadot, Foucault, and Sloterdijk, because doing justice to…Continue reading on Medium »
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https://medium.com/media/90355a347534ef63c06ef372fbd4be9d/hrefMy talk for the ( æthos ) Salon Series: Intuition as Sensemaking event held on November 4. It’s about linking perceptual learning to intuition and in so doing starting to
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An excerpt from a chapter that never was.Continue reading on Medium »
For those of you interested in transformative exercise, psychotechnologies, ecologies of practice, and so on, here’s a short thread on askēsis, a word I think you’ll find useful.Askēsis is exercise or
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Adam Robbert retweeted: #1 @ThouArtThat
“If one takes the testimonies about Plato’s inner-Academic teachings and discussions seriously, one is likely to find a picture of Plato quite different from the one Platonic scholarship has been presenting for the better part of the last two centuries. The simplistic two-world… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Nietzsche’s trolling. “Look at the epochs in the life of a people where scholars predominated: they are times of exhaustion, often of twilight, of decline,—gone are the over-flowing energy, the certainty of life, the certainty as to the future.”
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“My propositions serve as elucidations in the following way: anyone who understands me eventually recognizes them as non-sensical, when he has used them—as steps—to climb up beyond them. (He must, so to speak, throw away the ladder after he has climbed up it.) He must… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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“Exclusively discursive thinking that could separate and combine, but could never contemplate anything whole, would be an empty algebra, a formalism that could not be applied to anything. In human thinking, at any rate, the activities of reasoning and contemplation are rarely… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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“Everything in the Tractatus, I came to realize,—the musical cadence, its logical system of ‘the world,’ the say/show itself distinction, the remarks on timelessness, the mystical, silence, etc.—begins to fall into its proper place once the work is seen in its function as a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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Adam Robbert retweeted: “I wish you had seen him . . .”
@jim_rutt Parking garage to the business park by my place (during business hours). It’s been like this for ~2.5 years now. Unsure how any of this comes back.
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The ethos underlying the idea that “attention is an art form” and, specifically “how we become skillful perceivers and doers, people who know, in the moment, the right details to attend to and the right actions to take” is very similar to a core theme within Bill Torbet’s Action Inquiry, as explained here.