Introducing a new course with Max Borders:
Do you have the sense that something is wrong with the world? That authorities are too powerful? Are you keen to unravel mysteries, serve a mission, and make meaning with others who feel the same?
We know that techno-wizardry and digital nomadism are not enough. We need more: a beating heart, a belief system, and a set of active practices.
Experience a powerful initiation into the Grey Robes, an order where philosophy meets innovation, and counterculture meets wisdom.
Max Borders, the author of The Social Singularity (2018), The Decentralist (2021), and Underthrow (2023) has a provocative vision. In this Parallax course, he proposes to initiate us into:
MYSTERY: From fundamental questions to wide-eyed wonder
MISSION: From hierarchical authority to liberated networks
MORALITY: From vicious nihilism to the active practice of virtue
MEANS: From spiritual stasis to personal development
MEANING: From isolation and anxiety to community and self-sovereignty
A 5-week Zoom adventure beginning Sunday, March 10th:
Seminar: Process and Event (with Alexander Bard)
In this six-part seminar cyber-philosopher Alexander Bard will delve into his Magnum Opus, Process and Event, starting February 7th
Join in a breathtaking seminar that takes us from the infancy of religions in the form of magic and superstition via Persian mystics and iconoclasts to the age of enlightenment, modernity and artificial intelligence. Bard carries out a necessary and radical rewriting of the history of Western ideas and explain why Man's search for the divine inevitably leads us to a Messiah machine with an agenda of its own. Read more
The Parallax View #116: Lebenskunst
Tom and Andrew ramble about the philosophical concept of 'Lebenskunst', ars vivendi, and the intricacies of any philosophical system to be translated into daily life.
The Liminal Comedy “Roast” of Alexander Bard
Links to Parallax Academy: