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The long-awaited second series from John Vervaeke is here! Each week starting Monday 9 January 2023 a new episode will be released. The Stoa is setting off After Socrates on the following Sunday to complement them. In this new series, John will be offering us some handy new tools to use in our venture to […]
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December 28th, 2022 Philosopher-in-Residence for January 2022: Industrial Philosophy: Bring the Scientist’s Mindset Back to Philosophy Notes for this session: https://teamuw.notion.site/Industrial-Philosophy-Session-Zero-3c0dd4a4ede840a38fb45864df5549b9 Sign-up to attend the series live here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYtf–hpjssEtQ28HeWNYilnmB5ljqTPK46 In five sessions, every Wednesday from 28 December 2022 to 25 January 2023, we’ll be exploring and practicing “Industrial Philosophy” — applied philosophy, the type practiced
December 21st, 2022 Michael Millerman and Iosif Gershteyn from VisionXForm visit The Stoa to discuss how the abstract becomes concrete through the prism of entrepreneurship and why philosophy matters for visionaries, founders, and creatives. “VisionXForm Foundation is a transformative online training program for entrepreneurs that leverages the abstract and esoteric wisdom of the ages to
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**PATREON EXCLUSIVE #5** Unlocked In this loose wide-ranging conversation Brent Cooper and Emil Friis (aka Hanzi Freinacht) discuss the essential progressive baselines (ie. ‘green social liberalism’) of metamodernism as a political philosophy and hopeful social movement. Orienting the discussion from Cooper’s article ‘Metamodernism and the Left’, we establish the lineage of metamodernism as being deeply
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***PATREON EXCLUSIVE*** #2 Brent Cooper interviews architect-scholar Christopher Kirwan about his book Smart Cities and Artificial Intelligence (2020), which Cooper edited and contributed research to. Borne out of a decade long US-China collaboration between the authors,, Kirwan and Fu are conscious of the trends of smart cities and the horizon of positive human influence that
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***PATREON EXCLUSIVE*** #3 Brent Cooper and Alexander Bard have a generative conversation ranging from class conflict, redistribution, modern monetary theory, culture war, Jordan Peterson, Game B, social media practice, to the geopolitics of the Israel apartheid situation, Israel lobby, and distinctions around anti-zionism and anti-semitism. Bard and Cooper constructively disagree on many things, but on
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December 9th, 2022 We have lost our way. Atheists are tempted back to church by wafting incense. Rationalists are reverently laying down tarot cards. Tech giants want to sacralise your experience of unboxing their products. We, the disconnected, are calling upon what’s left of our metaphysical inheritance to drag meaning back from the void. But
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December 6th, 2022 Bruce Bueno de Mesquita visits The Stoa to discuss his book, The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics. “A groundbreaking new theory of the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith’s canonical
November 30th, 2022 Ian Cheng, artist and author of Emissary’s Guide To Worlding, visits The Stoa to discuss the emerging art of Worlding. From the book’s blurb: "What is a World? How do I create a World? How do I keep a World alive? And when should I set it free? There is an unnatural
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November 16th, 2022 Daniel Schmachtenberger returns to The Stoa to continue his conversation with Gilbert Morris – a philosopher, legal scholar, economist, and former diplomat – about the history of racial conflict relevant to the American situation. The previous conversation between Daniel and Gilbert can be seen here: https://youtu.be/mPHUN18BbNo thestoa.ca patreon.com/the_stoa thestoa.substack.com
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