Josh Berson

The still point at the center of my thinking is the relationship between skill and value: how our habits, inter alia, of listening, breathing, sitting, and eating inform what matters and conversely. Over time, my pursuit of this theme has grown ever more experimental. But at the center remains an abiding concern with the interpretation of animate activity, and a commitment to the emancipatory promise of the interpretive effort.

I was trained as a historian, anthropologist, and philosopher, with emphasis on the historical dynamics of practical knowledge as manifest in science, medicine, subsistence technique, etc; an earlier career in computer science continues to inform my habits of thought. I’ve held appointments, inter alia, at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, the Berggruen Institute, the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, and Wellcome Collection.

I am represented by Salma Begum, Greyhound Literary, London.

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