In our fourth session of Philosophy in a New Key we started penciling in essays, books and other media to add to the 2022 menu with the goal of reaching a consensus. This post is a wiki and can be edited by anyone reading this. Feel free to add your suggested reading/watching/listening below and join in on the conversation January 6th!
Note: Our typical Café time slot is every first and third Thursday @ noon Mountain Time. Discussion is forming around a second time slot on the second and fourth Mondays, time TBD. If the Zoom line is available then additional discussions can be held on most other dates/times. If interested in starting a reading group or in having a discussion at an alternate time email @Douggins .
Potential Media Explorations for 2022
Relevant to Susanne Langer’s Philosophy in a New Key:
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Combs_2014_Art_and_the_Evolution_of_Consciousness.pdf (1.6 MB)
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McNees_2021_The_Irruption_of_Time_in_Music_From_the.pdf (1.2 MB)
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McNees_2020_From_Symbolic_Form_to_Symbolic_Function.pdf (190.6 KB)
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Eneix_2021_Megaliths_Music_and_the_Mind.pdf (196.2 KB)
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McLuhan_Marshall_McLuhan_Eric_Laws_of_Media_The_New_Science.pdf (3.9 MB)
Recent and previous suggestions:
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Jorge Ferrar’s Participatory Spirituality
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Jennifer Gidley’s Postformal Education
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Robert Pirsig Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (512.8 KB)
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Douglas Hofstadter I Am a Strange Loop (1.8 MB)
Upcoming Cosmos Café events – Q1 & Q2, 2022
(to be filled after our January 6th discussion)
- 1/13 - Laws of Media-A New Science by Marshall & Eric McLuhan [Cosmos Café 2022-01-20]
- 2/3 – McLuhan Law’s of Media
- 2/17 – Strange Loop
- 3/3 – Strange Loop
- 3/17 – Strange Loop
- 4/7 – Strange Loop
- 4/21 – open frame / regroup / evaluate / etc.
- 5/5 – Graeber + W.I. Thompson + others
- 5/19 – Graeber + W.I. Thompson + others
- 6/2 – Graeber + W.I. Thompson + others
- 6/16 – Graeber + W.I. Thompson + others
Seed Questions
How do you know when to develop a topic/essay/book/video for the Cafe?
What constrains you? What enables you?
And when you have reached a threshold, and you decide to make something happen, then what happens?
And when you get clear feedback then what happens?
And when you get ambiguous signs from the group, what do you do next?