# Cosmos Café **URL:** https://www.infiniteconversations.com/c/commons/cafe/52.md [Latest](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/latest.md) · [Categories](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/categories.md) · [Tags](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/tags.md) --- ## [About the Cosmos Café channel](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/about-the-cosmos-cafe-channel/1264)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 0
A channel for proposing, developing, organizing, and exploring topics in connection with the Cosmos Café’—our weekly live conversation series dedicated to in-depth dialogues on consciousness, culture, collective intellig… --- ## [Constraints - and why Cosmos needs them.](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/constraints-and-why-cosmos-needs-them/8082)
**Author:** [@care\_save](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/care_save)\ **Replies:** 23\ **Last updated:** [August 24, 2026, 6:40pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/constraints-and-why-cosmos-needs-them/8082 "2026-08-24T18:40:51Z")
Cosmos Cafe “Constraints in Creative & Community Life” taking place 2pm MT on Wednesday August 19th @ http://cosmos.coop/zoom/community Exploring the Positive Effects of Constraints Please start by taking … --- ## [Cosmos Café - Music Edition](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-music-edition/3053)
**Author:** [@Douggins](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/Douggins)\ **Replies:** 342\ **Last updated:** [July 19, 2026, 11:19am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-music-edition/3053 "2026-07-19T11:19:56Z")
Proposals are percolating brews, waiting for the right time-space for an introduction to our ever-growing, always-pulsating Cosmos Café menu and calendar. Give the proposal a like if you think a discussion on this topic … --- ## [Ezra Klein on Beauty, Politics, and the Future of Abundance](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/ezra-klein-on-beauty-politics-and-the-future-of-abundance/7532)
**Author:** [@Michael\_Stumpf](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/Michael_Stumpf)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [February 21, 2026, 5:02pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/ezra-klein-on-beauty-politics-and-the-future-of-abundance/7532 "2026-02-21T17:02:28Z")
Let’s have a Cafe Marco to Engage The Dance Around The Sun?!? This seems to Be Marcos Social Dreaming Inhabiting Expression?!? Ever- Present Origin….The Beautiful, Good,& True….or … --- ## [🔥 Cosmos Café—Pop-Up Edition | August 26, 2025](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-pop-up-edition-august-26-2025/7276)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [November 25, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-pop-up-edition-august-26-2025/7276 "2025-11-25T19:11:19Z")
:memo: Summary @ccafe et al. ~ After a few months of radio silence, @Michael\_Stumpf, @achronon, and I have been catching up and feeling the call to gather a… --- ## [The Nature of Creativity (and the Creativity of Nature)](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/the-nature-of-creativity-and-the-creativity-of-nature/6238)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 22\ **Last updated:** [September 19, 2024, 2:35pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/the-nature-of-creativity-and-the-creativity-of-nature/6238 "2024-09-19T14:35:18Z")
@ccafe & @cosmos-members: I’m just putting this idea out there for any of you who might be interested in discussing it with me in a Cosmos Café format. As you may know, I’m co-hosting a retreat called the “Psychedelic I… --- ## [Sex and Gender in Body, Mind, and Soul](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/sex-and-gender-in-body-mind-and-soul/6154)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 17\ **Last updated:** [September 17, 2024, 11:26am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/sex-and-gender-in-body-mind-and-soul/6154 "2024-09-17T11:26:47Z")
Continuing the discussion from The Art of Being Posthuman … I am provisionally titling this series “Sex and Gender in Body, Mind, and Soul,” highlighting the various “levels” through which could approach… --- ## [Cosmos Café: The Spirit of AI (an organic interlude) \[2023-04-06\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-the-spirit-of-ai-an-organic-interlude-2023-04-06/5634)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 74\ **Last updated:** [June 12, 2024, 2:36pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-the-spirit-of-ai-an-organic-interlude-2023-04-06/5634 "2024-06-12T14:36:07Z")
In your time zone: 2023-04-06T18:00:00Z (UTC) ZOOM video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe Holy 32 by FolsomNatural (CC BY 2.0) This week we’ll be taking an excursus from our path through William Irwin… --- ## [The Art of Being Posthuman](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/the-art-of-being-posthuman/6053)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 51\ **Last updated:** [April 20, 2024, 10:04am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/the-art-of-being-posthuman/6053 "2024-04-20T10:04:38Z")
What is “posthumanism”? What does it mean to be “posthuman”? And how might one practice it as an art? One point that philosopher Francesca Ferrando is quick to make is that “posthumanism” is not the same as “transhuman… --- ## [Cosmos Café: Showing Up (film discussion) \[TBD\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-showing-up-film-discussion-tbd/5971)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [February 14, 2024, 10:53pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-showing-up-film-discussion-tbd/5971 "2024-02-14T22:53:51Z")
Attn: @ccafe When: TBD. Please comment below if you would like to participate in this event! It will be scheduled once we have a couple interested participants. A critic I’ve been following on Mastodon recently went o… --- ## [Cosmos Café: Many Types of Intelligence \[2024-01-18 & 02-01\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-many-types-of-intelligence-2024-01-18-02-01/5948)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 14\ **Last updated:** [February 9, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-many-types-of-intelligence-2024-01-18-02-01/5948 "2024-02-09T12:37:28Z")
Next Meeting Thursday, February 1 at 12 pm MDT In your time zone: 2024-02-01T19:00:00Z (UTC)→2024-02-01T21:00:00Z (UTC) Video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe Previous recording Cosmos Café: Many Types o… --- ## [Let's talk about Psychedelics \[Cosmos Café 2023-06-01 & 06-15\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/lets-talk-about-psychedelics-cosmos-cafe-2023-06-01-06-15/5708)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [February 1, 2024, 4:47pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/lets-talk-about-psychedelics-cosmos-cafe-2023-06-01-06-15/5708 "2024-02-01T16:47:19Z")
In your time zone: 2023-06-01T18:00:00Z (UTC) ZOOM video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe "I think of going to the grave without having a psychedelic experience like going to the grave without ever havin… --- ## [Upcoming Cafés – Summer 2023 and beyond](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/upcoming-cafes-summer-2023-and-beyond/5702)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 6\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2023, 2:01pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/upcoming-cafes-summer-2023-and-beyond/5702 "2023-05-28T14:01:02Z")
Dear @ccafe crew… now that we’ve finished up our series on William Irwin Thompson’s Imaginary Landscape, the field is open for some new explorations and conversations. We began discussing this at the end of our last conv… --- ## [Cosmos Café -- Deja vu all over again ... or another spin of the wheel? \[2023-01-26\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-deja-vu-all-over-again-or-another-spin-of-the-wheel-2023-01-26/5539)
**Author:** [@achronon](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/achronon)\ **Replies:** 61\ **Last updated:** [May 28, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-deja-vu-all-over-again-or-another-spin-of-the-wheel-2023-01-26/5539 "2023-05-28T13:43:14Z")
In your time zone: 2023-01-26T19:00:00Z (UTC) ZOOM video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe ▶ Call-in Options It’s Cosmos Café time again! 'Tis been more than while, that’s for sure: the summer came and wen… --- ## [Cosmos Cafe \[2023-05-18\] -- WI Thompson's 'Imaginary Landscape' 6](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-05-18-wi-thompsons-imaginary-landscape-6/5689)
**Author:** [@achronon](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/achronon)\ **Replies:** 8\ **Last updated:** [May 18, 2023, 9:59pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-05-18-wi-thompsons-imaginary-landscape-6/5689 "2023-05-18T21:59:23Z")
In your time zone: 2023-05-18T18:00:00Z (UTC) ZOOM video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe Overview After more than 150 pages of rather dense “mind jazz” prose, we have reached the last “chapter” of Thomps… --- ## [Cosmos Café \[2023-05-04\] -- A WITting Interlude in the 'Imaginary Landscape'](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-05-04-a-witting-interlude-in-the-imaginary-landscape/5678)
**Author:** [@achronon](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/achronon)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 8, 2023, 10:49pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-05-04-a-witting-interlude-in-the-imaginary-landscape/5678 "2023-05-08T22:49:17Z")
In your time zone: 2023-05-04T18:00:00Z (UTC) ZOOM video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe Overview Thompson’s text is not the easiest to follow. After all, it is his first real attempt at his own-conceive… --- ## [Cosmos Cafe \[2023-04-20\] -- WI Thompson's 'Imaginary Landscape' 5](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-04-20-wi-thompsons-imaginary-landscape-5/5665)
**Author:** [@johnnydavis54](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/johnnydavis54)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 24, 2023, 6:30pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-04-20-wi-thompsons-imaginary-landscape-5/5665 "2023-04-24T18:30:59Z")
In your time zone: 2023-04-20T18:00:00Z (UTC) ZOOM video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe ! The Cafe will focus meta-attention on the fourth Chapter of William Irwin Thompson’s Imaginary Landscapes. … --- ## [Cosmos Café \[2023-03-23\] -- WI Thompson’s 'Imaginary Landscape' 4](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-03-23-wi-thompson-s-imaginary-landscape-4/5596)
**Author:** [@achronon](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/achronon)\ **Replies:** 16\ **Last updated:** [March 25, 2023, 5:16pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-03-23-wi-thompson-s-imaginary-landscape-4/5596 "2023-03-25T17:16:13Z")
In your time zone: 2023-03-23T18:00:00Z (UTC) ZOOM video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe Overview In this book, Thompson sets out to exemplify his Wissenkunst by focusing on what he sees as evidence for … --- ## [Cosmos Café \[2023-03-09\] – WI Thompson's Imaginary Landscape' 3](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-03-09-wi-thompsons-imaginary-landscape-3/5570)
**Author:** [@johnnydavis54](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/johnnydavis54)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 9, 2023, 10:05pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-03-09-wi-thompsons-imaginary-landscape-3/5570 "2023-03-09T22:05:00Z")
In your time zone: \[2023-03-09\] ZOOM video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe " The government offered us no protection from atom bombs and continued their open air atomic explosions in Nevada ; and when … --- ## [Cosmos Café \[2023-02-23\] -- WI Thompson’s 'Imaginary Landscape' 2](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-02-23-wi-thompson-s-imaginary-landscape-2/5556)
**Author:** [@achronon](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/achronon)\ **Replies:** 19\ **Last updated:** [February 25, 2023, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-02-23-wi-thompson-s-imaginary-landscape-2/5556 "2023-02-25T15:35:42Z")
In your time zone: 2023-02-23T19:00:00Z (UTC) ZOOM video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe Overview Thompson begins his Wissenskunst journey, illustrating our lost cosm… --- ## [Cosmos Café \[2023-02-09\] -- WI Thompson’s 'Imaginary Landscape' 1](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-02-09-wi-thompson-s-imaginary-landscape-1/5551)
**Author:** [@achronon](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/achronon)\ **Replies:** 18\ **Last updated:** [February 13, 2023, 8:11pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-2023-02-09-wi-thompson-s-imaginary-landscape-1/5551 "2023-02-13T20:11:02Z")
In your time zone: 2023-02-09T19:00:00Z (UTC) ZOOM video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe Overview In his The Time It Takes Falling Bodies To Light (New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1981), Thompson introduce… --- ## [Let's get real: Who's up for a(nother ontological/epistemological) quest?](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/lets-get-real-whos-up-for-a-nother-ontological-epistemological-quest/5536)
**Author:** [@achronon](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/achronon)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [January 28, 2023, 10:09am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/lets-get-real-whos-up-for-a-nother-ontological-epistemological-quest/5536 "2023-01-28T10:09:11Z")
Happy new year to you all! I, for one, am glad that all of you find yourselves getting. sorted for another year of challenges and surprises. I’m also reassured that each and all of you will undoubtedly rise to the task. … --- ## [The Artistic Critic: How to Create Collaborative Relationships among Three or More People](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/the-artistic-critic-how-to-create-collaborative-relationships-among-three-or-more-people/5344)
**Author:** [@johnnydavis54](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/johnnydavis54)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [August 31, 2022, 6:09pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/the-artistic-critic-how-to-create-collaborative-relationships-among-three-or-more-people/5344 "2022-08-31T18:09:48Z")
In your time zone: \[Thursday, June 2, 2022 1PM EST\] ZOOM video conference: https://www.cosmos.coop/zoom/cafe Watch two children playing. Often the more dominant child is the one providing the social persona while t… --- ## [Laws of Media-A New Science by Marshall & Eric McLuhan \[Cosmos Café 2022-01-20\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/laws-of-media-a-new-science-by-marshall-eric-mcluhan-cosmos-cafe-2022-01-20/5143)
**Author:** [@johnnydavis54](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/johnnydavis54)\ **Replies:** 37\ **Last updated:** [June 17, 2022, 3:42am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/laws-of-media-a-new-science-by-marshall-eric-mcluhan-cosmos-cafe-2022-01-20/5143 "2022-06-17T03:42:39Z")
Georges de La Tour Mary Magdalene with a Mirror Eyeball to eyeball. The skull is a Baroque mirror. The visual confrontation of life as shallow horror. In a visual culture ho… --- ## [Cosmos Café - Bioelectric Fields and Cognition \[2022-05-05\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-bioelectric-fields-and-cognition-2022-05-05/5319)
**Author:** [@Douggins](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/Douggins)\ **Replies:** 28\ **Last updated:** [June 15, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-bioelectric-fields-and-cognition-2022-05-05/5319 "2022-06-15T22:52:35Z")
Colored stains show different layers of a tadpole eye during an experiment in Michael Levin’s lab. | VAIBHAV P. PAI/TUFTS UNIVERSITY Bodies within Nature or Cosmos (bodies within reality) … --- ## [Cosmos Café - Is Ethical Attunement Possible in the Midst of a World/Planet in Transition? \[5-22-2022\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-is-ethical-attunement-possible-in-the-midst-of-a-world-planet-in-transition-5-22-2022/5333)
**Author:** [@Douggins](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/Douggins)\ **Replies:** 13\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2022, 12:13am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-is-ethical-attunement-possible-in-the-midst-of-a-world-planet-in-transition-5-22-2022/5333 "2022-05-24T00:13:05Z")
Reading / Watching / Listening https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YeKU077M1w Listening\_Thinking\_Being.pdf (239.5 KB) Lipari’s Listening, Thinking, Being.docx (30.7 KB), a Review. A… --- ## [Cosmos Café – Open Session \[2022-04-21\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-open-session-2022-04-21/5309)
**Author:** [@madrush](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/madrush)\ **Replies:** 27\ **Last updated:** [May 4, 2022, 5:27pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/cosmos-cafe-open-session-2022-04-21/5309 "2022-05-04T17:27:12Z")
Continuing the discussion from Douglas Hofstadter’s I Am a Strange Loop - Session 5 \[Cosmos Café 2022-04-07\]… At the end of our last session, on Douglas Hofstadter’s I AM A STRANGE LOOP, we … --- ## [Douglas Hofstadter’s I Am a Strange Loop - Session 5 \[Cosmos Café 2022-04-07\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/douglas-hofstadter-s-i-am-a-strange-loop-session-5-cosmos-cafe-2022-04-07/5280)
**Author:** [@edoubleoo](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/edoubleoo)\ **Replies:** 36\ **Last updated:** [April 30, 2022, 1:23am UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/douglas-hofstadter-s-i-am-a-strange-loop-session-5-cosmos-cafe-2022-04-07/5280 "2022-04-30T01:23:24Z")
Speaker View Gallery View Audio Book Description Deep down, your brain is a chaotic seething soup of particles. On a higher level, it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet hig… --- ## [Douglas Hofstadter’s I Am a Strange Loop - Session 4 \[Cosmos Café 2022-03-31\]](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/douglas-hofstadter-s-i-am-a-strange-loop-session-4-cosmos-cafe-2022-03-31/5260)
**Author:** [@edoubleoo](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/edoubleoo)\ **Replies:** 50\ **Last updated:** [April 3, 2022, 10:54pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/douglas-hofstadter-s-i-am-a-strange-loop-session-4-cosmos-cafe-2022-03-31/5260 "2022-04-03T22:54:18Z")
Speaker View Gallery View Audio Book Description Deep down, your brain is a chaotic seething soup of particles. On a higher level, it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet hig… --- ## [Queering McLuhan's Tetrads with Peirce's Forgotten Thirds](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/queering-mcluhans-tetrads-with-peirces-forgotten-thirds/5251)
**Author:** [@johnnydavis54](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/u/johnnydavis54)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [March 21, 2022, 12:09pm UTC](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/t/queering-mcluhans-tetrads-with-peirces-forgotten-thirds/5251 "2022-03-21T12:09:09Z")
In your time zone: postponed Video conference: … Please RSVP below if you wish to participate. We will have a limit of 3 active participants in the roles described below. As our civilization is currently ripped a… [Next page](https://www.infiniteconversations.com/c/commons/cafe/52.md?page=1)