Parallax Newsletter #72: New courses and podcasts
Living a Good Life, Getting Unstuck and Having Great Sex!
Courses this fall:
Living a good Life - with Bonnitta Roy
“The medicine makes you sick, the money makes you poor and the schools make you stupid”. The course aims to explore the philosophical teachings of Ivan Illich, a deeply religious and brilliant thinker who lived in a time when it was common for friends to share meaningful conversations about personal life and the state of the world. Illich’s ideas were often controversial and provocative, and he considered it his mission to build committed human ties by working through difficult issues by challenging the “conventional wisdom.” The course will use Illich’s provocations to catalyze a deeper understanding around the meaning of this world and how we live our lives in these times.
Getting unstuck - with Layman Pascal and Scout Rainer Wiley
“Teratogenic” names the substances that cultivate mutations & monstrosities. This strange new course from PARALLAX ACADEMY offers an in-depth exploration of the edges of transrational magic where uncanny transformations begin. The infamous post-postmodern shapeshifters Layman Pascal & Scout Rainer Wiley will guide you deep into the dark forest on a practical and theoretical journey into the uncanny, inhuman and unintelligible. Today, many new communities and we-spaces are forming around metamodernity, 4E cognitive science, Systems theory, Integralism, Game B, et al. but these movements are often hesitant to explore the unsavory and primal theater of occultism.
Recent Podcasts and Videos:
Prof. Dr. Dirk Baecker: On Media, Fake New and Niklas Luhmann
Prof. Dr. Dirk Baecker is a sociologist and holds senior professorship for organization theory and theory of society at Zeppelin University in Friedrichshafen at Lake Constance. He studied systems theory with Niklas Luhmann. He has been recognized as one of the most prominent German sociologists with important works on cultural theory, sociological theory, economic sociology and organizational sociology. He is the author of numerous books, including KATJEKTE, published at Merve.
Kulturwang #3: Squirtology
The title speaks for itself
The Parallax View #96: Schmoppenheimer
Tom and Andrew ramble about Oppenheimer, dreams, freak accidents and the rule of life