International Postnormal Times Discourse Series

CPPFS, IIIT East and South East Asia, Institut Darul Ehsan

CPPFS

3 July, 2020

The Covid Chronicles

On 15 May, 2020, the CPPFS, The International Institute for Islamic Thought, East and South East Asia, and the Institut Darul Ehsan collaborated to put on a live webinar via ZOOM with the author's of the 3-part blog series, The Postnormal Perfect Storm Jordi Serra del Pino, Christopher Jones, and Liam Mayo, hosted by Prof. Mohammad Fauzan Nordin, director, IIIT ESEA, moderated by Scott Jordan, with Ziauddin Sardar. 

Before viewing this video, it is advised that you read the previous Covid Chronicles, The Postnormal Perfect Storm Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.

 

 

Timeline

I think therefore I am
I progress therefore I am
I shop therefore I am
I share therefore I am
Defined
Monolithic
Relative
Contradictory
I am tradition and culture
I am science and technology
I am what I buy
I am online
Simple, Closed
Complicated, Closed
Complex, Open
Open, Interconnected, Chaotic
Conquest, Supremacy, Progress
Progress, Efficiency, Modernization
Relativism, Plurality, Individuality
Complexity, Chaos, Contradictions
Spanish Flu (1918-1920)
HIV/AIDS
Zika Virus, MERS, SARS
COVID-19
Monogamy
Serial Monogamy
Serial, Multiple Monogamy
Hetero, Homo, Trans, Serial, Plural
Feral, To be Tamed, and Exploited
Under Control, but Limits to Growth
Social Construction of Nature
Mass extinction, Climate Change
Pursuit of Reasoned Inquiry
Scientific Progress and Development
Socially Constructed and Relative
Complex, Uncertainties, Ignorances
Science makes work easier
Ideologically driven for "progress"
Biotechnology & Genome Sequencing
AI, Human-Machine Synthesis
Male, Female
Male, Female, (Closet Gays)
Male, Female, LGBTQ+
Undefined