HOW TO BE A BETTER CYBORG
It’s 2025 and the machines have taken over—social media clamours for our attention and workplace surveillance bots punish us if our minds wander. Now a new generation of robots promise to do our thinking for us, while guzzling all the water in Oxfordshire.
Join philosopher Dr. Noah Gabriel to collaboratively reimagine new ways to take back our minds and our world. We’ll talk about:
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how our social structures turn us into machines
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why technologies are always both a remedy and a poison
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why we should accept that we are weird and wonderful cyborgs
We’ll also use games and mini-experiments to understand what place we want to give the machines in our life, and how we can keep them from taking over.
​20:00–22:00 19th Nov at The Post Bar, Tottenham (just show up)
10:30–12:00 23rd Nov at Braziers Wider Community Weekend & 75th Anniversary (contact me)
18:00–20:00 30th Nov online (sign up below)
​​​​​DECODING THE ANTHROPOCENE
The aliens have landed in Tower Hamlets and the fate of the planet rests in the hands of a group of community members who will have to provide our guests with the analytic tools they need to understand the world around them and the way that humans communicate. To do that, we’ll practice underutilised cultural literacy skills, including:
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Phenomenology of visual experience, to understand what we show each other, as well as what we conceal
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Semiotics, to decode the myths we tell each other about ourselves
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Hermeneutics, to take back the power to critically examine stories about our world, so that we can understand if they keep us confined or set us free
14:00–17:00 Nov 8th at St. Margaret's House, London​
​PATHS... A PLAYSHOP ON GETTING LOST
What kind of traveler are you? A happy wanderer, or all about the destination?
A journey can be approached in many different ways: as a voyage into the unknown or as a search for somewhere to call home; as a straight line, a meandering road, or a labyrinth that turns back on itself. Join Peter and Noah to explore:
- What’s great about getting lost, and when to know where you’re going
- Whether you wander alone, or in a band with others
- Whether you like to lead, or feel safer with something to follow
14:00–17:00, Nov 15th at The Post Bar, London