The evening commenced with an opening speech from DeepLabs own Dr Marina Frid and was followed with engaging speeches from Professor Colin Scott, Registrar, Deputy President and Vice President for Academic Affairs UCD and Dr Pauline Garvey, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Maynooth University and co-author of Professor Miller on Ageing with Smartphones in Ireland: When Life Becomes Craft.
The 70 plus attendees enjoyed refreshments while Professor Miller discussed his research which prompted the theme for the Good Enough Life. This was followed by an interactive Q&A session, allowing attendees to delve deeper into the concepts presented in the book. The Museum of Literature Ireland provided an intimate and inspiring backdrop for the event which only added to the resounding success of the launch.
About The Good Enough Life
Drawing from the Professor Miller’s 16-month ethnographic fieldwork for the ERC project The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing, The Good Enough Life juxtaposes a philosophical inquiry into the nature of the good life with an ethnography of people living in a small Irish town. The book shows how much we can learn from acknowledging what ordinary people have achieved and how anthropology and philosophy can complement and enrich one another in an inquiry into what we might accomplish in our lives.
As an ethnography, it is a book of praise. By creating community as a deliberate and social project that provides the foundation for a more fulfilling life, where affluence has not led to an increase in individualism, the people in this Irish town have found a way to live the good enough life. The book also shows how anthropology and philosophy can complement and enrich one another in an inquiry into what we might accomplish in our lives.
