Dear all,
Just a very quick email today to let you know about two things:
At 2pm EST/7pm UK today, we are hosting the first of our new mini-series “A Century of Violence”. Run in partership with Brad Evans and his new Centre for the Study of Violence at the University of Bath, the series will look at five of the most influential philosophical texts on violence from the past century. Today, the renowned cultural critic Henry A. Giroux will be discussing the seminal 1970 text, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, by Paulo Freire. For more details and to sign up, click here.
To coincide with this event, we have just uploaded an essay co-written by Brad Evans and the artist Chantal Meza. “Have We Finally Become Ghosts in the Machine?” is a powerful indictment of human alienation and isolation under technology. To quote from the essay, “While digital technology today has a stated ambition to unify the world, it is in fact creating islands of isolation, the likes we have never seen before.” Our Sunday read will be “Can Our Bodies Ever Be Good Enough?”, an edited transcript of a conversation we hosted this time last year between Clare Chambers and Brian D. Earp.
Hope to see some of you later today!
Anthony Morgan
Editor