We Are Overheating | Thomas Hylland Eriksen | TEDxTrondheim

In a world of more, faster, bigger and warmer, we are overheating on both the personal level and the global level. This brilliant talk from renowned Norwegian social anthropologist Thomas Hylland Eriksen will give you food for thought, and a perfect excuse to slow down for 10 minutes. Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a social anthropologist and author of Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (2016). Thomas is currently a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and has authored textbooks, academic monographs, polemical interventions, popular science, biographies and novels in both English and Norwegian.
Born from his long-standing interest in the unintentional consequences of modernity, is a series of four books focusing on information technology, identity, happiness and waste. Thomas recently completed a five-year research project which shows how global change has accelerated in many domains, from coal exports to photography and from finance to identity politics; leading to dangerous ‘overheating effects’ and a need to slow down, or ‘cool down’ worldwide. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx

[@konstantin_morev]

Great antropologist! I adore his "Tyranny of the moment".

[@davorintrpeski875]

One of the most inspiring anthropologist. Great!

[@PaoloSubioli]

Very inspirational, thank you for this talk. Everybody should start moving in that direction on his/her own, we have no time to wait for politicians to change.

[@susannahickel4042]

I love to listen to him, and I hope he will recover! But there is a fire burning inside, Lots of Love and I hope he is just fine.

[@taffelost6221]

One of my favourite Norwegian academics. Hylland Eriksen is a brilliant mind!

[@goinghealthywithmymom5034]

Thomas Erikson is a great scholar! Happy that I was able to listen his other lectures too in person. His books are best reads in anthropology.

[@abdullahalghlib7871]

after listening to THOMAS, I feel overheated ...

[@galettimusic3837]

Great topic and brilliantly exposed. Nevertheless, I think he does not grasp the implications of the acceleration of climate change, or at least he puts that aside in this talk

[@Susiegmc85]

read the first chapter of his book on overheating, hes very in depth

[@Mark-en3ig]

Was this talk really just about stating that the world is accelerated? We have known this for a very long time. A talk worth listening to would be feasible solutions to these problems. The only solution he mentions is to "scale down" but does not explain how to do this in a feasible way. In other words he completely skips the only difficult question. That this talk is labelled "brilliant" is absurd.

[@Susiegmc85]

have you read his book on overheating? if not, you should. his talk is only the basics of what his book covers

[@renatojohnsson5548]

i saw ASEN lectures of him from around 2014 and my god, he looks awful! Like a heavy battle against cancer. Genius man

[@sarahberney]

Poor soul, has he been battling cancer or something? I'm afraid that for me as I watch this, it is distracting me from his excellent content and delivery.

[@unicorndrool9406]

Pancreatic cancer - He is alive and well today, lecturing at the University of Oslo!

[@sarahberney]

@@unicorndrool9406 that's so good to hear, thank you so much for your reply 😃

[@runemartinguldberg9056]

What is happened in the last say 25 years is that this process of change development has as it were shifted to a higher gear. We noe live through the acceleration. Changing are taking place faster. He is saying. But. What really happened is that he him self is slowing down. Real life is in the age between 12 and 26 year. His life was 40 years ago. His life now is only a reflection of his values and revelations from the time he was this young. His brain has closed the ability to take in the Zeitgeist. He is out of date. How can he live with a Zeitgeist who is 40 years old. But it ok to live on your memories. Humans ability to breath in the world has not left us in a society that moves to fast. Its only him who got older. And the more older his Zeitgeist gets he will be less able to correlate it with present time. Ask a 20 year old if he know what Beatles is. How can you give them directions. This is a greek tragedy. Alt var bedre før.

[@tzenophile]

If you are 12, that would explain a lot.

[@svenhaheim]

Cancer could not beat a walking talking cancer in human form.

[@gabrielbourke1194]

What do you mean by that? Is that your opinion?

[@svenhaheim]

@@gabrielbourke1194 This is a man that has been talking down his country for decades, even recently suggesting that our oil revenue was undeserved and should be donated. He is a complete and utter scumbag.