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 https://www.ted.com/tedx

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