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Upcoming seminars
May 5, 12, 19, 26, June 2, 9 Tuesday evenings 6-8:30 EST. “Debt as Original Sin,” Joshua Ramey
June 20 “Total Liberation: The Buddhist Eight-Fold Path, Animal Justice, and Liberatory Praxis,” Philip Murphy
TBA “Blockchain Capitalism,” Alison McDowell
TBA “Meaning in Our Time of Crisis,” Glenn Wallis
Ongoing groups
Anarchist Reading Circle
Ludic Liberation Lab
(Non)Buddhist Practice Posse
Keep an eye on our calendar
Seminar archive
2020
“Lying & Truth in Politics: Hannah Arendt and the Fragility of Democratic Life,” Ulrich Baer and Amir Eshel
“Viral Grief, Rebellious Mourning: A Virtual Grief Circle,” Cindy Milstein
“Confronting the Demobilizing Wall of Uncertainty: Revisiting Black Bloc/White Riot in the Age of Trump,” AK Thompson
“Debt Strike Now? An Online Conversation,”Richard Robbins, Devin Singh, and Joshua Ramey
“Exhausting All Possibilities:” An Introduction to Deleuze & Guattari’s Political Philosophy,” John Paetsch
“How We Remained Human: Posthumans, the Technosphere, and the Selfish Meme,” Alexander Wilson
“Why the Debt Strike is Not Impossible,” Joshua Ramey
“Darkness and Its Discontents,” Glenn Wallis
“Radical Education Workshop,” Glenn Wallis
“Contradictions of White Middle Class Dissent: Revisiting “Black Bloc,White Riot” in the Age of Trump,” AK Thompson
“Please Select Your Jacques Lacan,” Patricia Gherovici
“Workshop: Non-Buddhist Redescription,” Glenn Wallis
“Buddhism: What Can It Offer Us Today?“ Glenn Wallis
“Revolutionary Pessimism: On Political Action Without Expectation,” Scott Ritner
“Why Marx Matters,” Gabriel Rockhill. In collaboration with the Critical Theory Workshop
“Critical and Contemplative Pedagogies for Eco-Justice,” Zack Walsh and Brooke D. Lavelle
“For Education: The College Classroom as Concrete Utopia,” Glenn Wallis
2019
“Don’t Worry. Be Happy! Feeling Good, Bad, and Everything In Between,” Thomas Conners
“Buddhism in Ruin,” Glenn Wallis
“Ritual and Resistance,” Cleo Kearns
“Aesthetics: Toward a Radical History,” Gabriel Rockhill
“The Culture of Revolt,” AK Thompson
“How Living Well Matters in the Pursuit of Knowledge,“ Lisa Miracchi
2018
“Money and Metaphysics,” Joshua Ramey
“Anarchism and its Aspirations,“ Cindy Milstein
“Night Moves: Poetry at Present,” John Paetsch (To be rescheduled)
“Unlearning: Radical Education Theory,” Glenn Wallis
“Gilles Deleuze: Larval Subjects, Lost Time,” John Paetsch
“Darkness,” Glenn Wallis
“You must change your life: Rilke’s Poetics of Immanence,” Ulrich Baer
“Speculum of Pain: Buddhism on Illness,” Pierce Salguero
“Contemporary French Philosophy: A Primer,” Gabriel Rockhill
“Is This How It Ends? On Human Stupidity and the Meagre Promise of the Epoché,“Glenn Wallis
“Cultural Narratives and National Identities,” Alan Nadel
“How To Find What Isn’t Lost,” Akilesh Ayyar
2017
“Meditation: Self and Society,” Glenn Wallis
“Alienation and Its Antidotes: A Workshop on the Thought of François Laruelle,” Anthony Paul Smith
“Buddhism in the Age of Trump,” Glenn Wallis
“Philosophical Concepts for Thinking,” Glenn Wallis
“Critical Introduction to Buddhist Thought,” Glenn Wallis
