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This Thursday is my monthly “Pints with Plato” talk and discussion, and I’ll be focusing on St. Augustine’s Book XIX of Augustine’s The City of God in which he wrestles with the relative importance of philosophy versus faith, or Athens versus Jerusalem. I will also talk a bit about Augustine’s influence on the school of political … More Next Live Session: Augustine on Athens vs. Jerusalem
The second “Pints” event is tomorrow (Thursday, February 2) at 7 p.m. Central Time. You can join me live for about an hour and a quarter, with time for Q and A. This month we’re talking about Aristotle and his enduring legacy in the development of political thought. You can get in on this by … More Next “Pints” Tomorrow–This One’s on Aristotle!
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My first “Pints with Plato” session will start at 7 p.m. US Central Time this Thursday (link below or search Pints with Plato on Eventbrite)! If you support us on Patreon at the Salt of the Earth or Worker Scholar levels you will already have access. In this first session I plan to actually discuss … More First “Pints with Plato” Live Session Coming Up!
Discussing how Mackenzie Wark’s Hacker Manifesto applies to big Ag moves Laurie Johnson into some thoughts on information technology has not only not saved our world but made it worse? … More Meta-Morphed: Is There Any Reason for Techno-Utopian Optimism?
This is a segment from Laurie Johnson’s presentation in the first session of The Maurin Academy’s Fall 2022 short series on Agricultural Biotechnology and the Information Economy. She is guided by information from the first part of Jack Kloppenberg’s First the Seed. The short series with Laurie Johnson and Jakob Hanschu brings Kloppenberg’s scholarship to bear on McKenzie Wark’s The Hacker Manifesto, and vice versa. … More Should Seeds Be Mere Commodities?
In this segment from the Maurin Academy’s short series on Agricultural Biotechnology and the Information Economy, Jakob Hanschu introduces some of McKenzie Wark’s ideas from The Hacker Manifesto that apply to the critique of modern corporate agricultural development supplied by Jack Kloppenberg’s First the Seed. … More Hackers v. Vectoralists or Percy v. Goliath (Maurin Academy Short Series Pt 1: Jakob Hanshu)
This Maurin Academy short series will run on Tuesdays from 7-8:30 p.m Central US time starting August 23 and ending September 20, 2022. Laurie Johnson and Jakob Hanschu will analyze the political economy of agricultural biotechnology using insights from critical studies of the information era. We invite participants to join us. If you would like … More Coming Up: Agricultural Biotechnology and the Information Economy Short Series (Maurin Academy)
