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SUMMARY:Douglas Rushkoff
DESCRIPTION:discussing the subject of his new book \nTeam Human \npublished by W.W. Norton \nThough created by humans\, our technologies\, markets\, and institutions often contain an antihuman agenda. Douglas Rushkoff\, digital theorist and host of the NPR-One podcast Team Human\, reveals the dynamics of this antihuman machinery and invites us to remake these aspects of society in ways that foster our humanity. \nIn 100 aphoristic statements\, his manifesto exposes how forces for human connection have turned into ones of isolation and repression: money\, for example\, has transformed from a means of exchange to a means of exploitation\, and education has become an extension of occupational training. Digital-age technologies have only amplified these trends\, presenting the greatest challenges yet to our collective autonomy: robots taking our jobs\, algorithms directing our attention\, and social media undermining our democracy. But all is not lost. It’s time for Team Human to take a stand\, regenerate the social bonds that define us and\, together\, make a positive impact on this earth. \nAbout Douglas Rushkoff: \n\nNamed one of the “world’s ten most influential intellectuals” by MIT\, Douglas Rushkoff is an author\, media theorist\, professor\, and documentarian who studies human autonomy in a digital age. His twenty books include the upcoming Team Human\, based on his podcast\, as well as the bestsellers Present Shock\, Throwing Rocks and the Google Bus\, Program or Be Programmed\, Life Inc\, and Media Virus. He also made the PBS Frontline documentaries Generation Like\, The Persuaders\, and Merchants of Cool. His book Coercion won the Marshall McLuhan Award\, and the Media Ecology Association honored him with the first Neil Postman Award for Career Achievement in Public Intellectual Activity. Rushkoff’s work explores how different technological environments change our relationship to narrative\, money\, power\, and one another. He coined such concepts as “viral media\,” “screenagers\,” and “social currency\,” and has been a leading voice for applying digital media toward social and economic justice. He is a research fellow of the Institute for the Future\, and founder of the Laboratory for Digital Humanism at CUNY/Queens\, where he is a Professor of Media Theory and Digital Economics. His novels and comics\, Ecstasy Club\, A.D.D\, and Aleister & Adolf\, are all being developed for the screen. \n\nPraise for the work of Douglas Rushkoff \n“Original and uplifting. Just the book America needs right now. In his unique and engaging style\, Rushkoff reminds us of our human essence: we are social creatures\, and if we trust this truth about ourselves we can accomplish the seemingly impossible.” — Frances Moore Lappé\, author of Diet for a Small Planet and Daring Democracy \n“Rushkoff is the gold standard. He always knows what tech is up to—and he’s usually prophetic. Now he’s here to tell us how our Silicon masters are attempting to pit us against one another for their own gain. Go Team Human.” — Walter Kirn\, author of Blood Will Out and Up in the Air \n“A vivid thinker\, Rushkoff is an insightful and acerbic antidote to Facebook\, cultural hegemony\, and the corporatization of everything.” — Seth Godin\, bestselling author of The Dip\, Linchpin\, and What to Do When It’s Your Turn (and It’s Always Your Turn) \n“Can the revolution start already? This book will help us. Thank God for Douglas Rushkoff.” — Parker Posey \n“Technology can be a force for good or amplify our self-destructive capacities. In Team Human\, the always-brilliant Douglas Rushkoff reminds us that the tools we design design us in turn\, and offers a vision to invert our tools and make them better.” — Jason Silva\, host of National Geographic’s Brain Games \n“An astonishing\, paradigm-shifting must-read for all inhabitants of the twenty-first century. Precisely and cogently written. Rushkoff’s best work so far.” — Grant Morrison \n“A searing critique…Visionary\, original\, and inspirational. If you’re not already a member of Team Human\, you will be once you’ve finished reading it.” — Jeremy Lent\, author of The Patterning Instinct \n“[A] catalyst for conversations on what it means to be human.” — Booklist \n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://litseen.com/event/douglas-rushkoff/
LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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SUMMARY:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: Sketchtasy
DESCRIPTION:Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore presents Sketchtasy. Sketchtasy brings 1990s gay culture startlingly back to life\, as Alexa and her friends grapple with the impact of growing up at a time when desire and death are intertwined. With an intoxicating voice and unruly cadence\, this is a shattering\, incandescent novel that conjures the pain and pageantry of struggling to imagine a future. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers \n\n5433 College Avenue\nOakland\, CA 94618
URL:https://litseen.com/event/mattilda-bernstein-sycamore-sketchtasy-2/
LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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SUMMARY:Joel Simon: This is Now with Angie Coiro
DESCRIPTION:“America does not negotiate with terrorists.” But are we sure we should keep it that way? Last year there were nearly nine thousand international terrorist abductions. The US refuses to pay ransoms\, holding that it would only fuel more kidnappings. Other countries pay-up to free their citizens taken hostage. Statistics tell the grim result: according to New America\, “since 2001\, American hostages taken captive by terrorist\, militant\, and pirate groups have been more than twice as likely to remain in captivity\, die in captivity\, or be murdered by their captors as the average Western hostage.” \nJoel Simon has spent nearly two decades with the Committee to Protect Journalists\, working on dozens of hostage cases. His new book We Want to Negotiate is an exploration of the ethical\, legal\, and strategic considerations of a bedeviling question: should governments pay ransom to terrorists? \nJoin KLF’s journalist in residence Angie Coiro as she hosts Joel Simon for this important conversation\, in another installment of our This Is Now news and culture conversation series.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/joel-simon-this-is-now-with-angie-coiro/
LOCATION:Kepler’s Books\, 1010 El Camino Real\, Menlo Park \, CA\, 94025\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,South Bay
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SUMMARY:The Second Kind of Impossible: The Quest for a New Form of Matter
DESCRIPTION:When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s\, scientists thought they knew all conceivable forms of matter. “The Second Kind of Impossible” is the story of Steinhardt’s 35-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. \nSteinhardt’s discoveries chart a new direction in science. They not only change our ideas about patterns and matter\, but also reveal new truths about the processes that shaped our solar system. The underlying science is important\, simple and beautiful-and Steinhardt’s first-hand account is an engaging scientific thriller. \nPaul J. Steinhardt is the Albert Einstein Professor in Science at Princeton University\, where he is on the faculty of both the departments of Physics and Astrophysical Sciences. He is the co-founder and director of the Princeton Center for Theoretical Science. He received the Dirac Medal and other prestigious awards for his work on the early universe and novel forms of matter. He is the author of “The Second Kind of Impossible: The Extraordinary Quest for a New Form of Matter”\, and the co-author\, with Neil Turok\, of “Endless Universe”\, which describes the two competing ideas in cosmology to which he contributed. With his student Dov Levine\, Steinhardt first invented the theoretical concept of quasicrystals before they were synthesized in a laboratory. More than three decades later\, with Luca Bindi\, he guided the team that led to the discovery of three different natural quasicrystals in the Kamchatka Peninsula. In 2014\, the International Mineralogical Association named a new mineral Steinhardtite in his honor. \nBooks will be available for sale at the event for $27 plus tax. Book sales provided by Books Inc. Palo Alto.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/the-second-kind-of-impossible-the-quest-for-a-new-form-of-matter/
LOCATION:Albert and Janet Schultz Cultural Arts Hall\, 3921 Fabian Way\, Palo Alto\, 94303
CATEGORIES:South Bay
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SUMMARY:BINDERY: Sam Lipsyte / Hark
DESCRIPTION:The Bindery hosts Sam Lipsyte for his brilliant new novel Hark. Please join us! \n  \nIn an America convulsed by political upheaval\, cultural discord\, environmental collapse\, and spiritual confusion\, many folks are searching for peace\, salvation\, and — perhaps most immediately — just a little damn focus. Enter Hark Morner\, an unwitting guru whose technique of “Mental Archery” — a combination of mindfulness\, mythology\, fake history\, yoga\, and\, well\, archery — is set to captivate the masses and raise him to near-messiah status. It’s a role he never asked for\, and one he is woefully underprepared to take on. But his inner-circle of modern pilgrims have other plans\, as do some suddenly powerful fringe players\, including a renegade Ivy League ethicist\, a gentle Swedish kidnapper\, a crossbow-hunting veteran of jungle drug wars\, a social media tycoon with an empire on the skids\, and a mysteriously influential (but undeniably slimy) catfish. \nIn this social satire of the highest order\, Sam Lipsyte\, the New York Times bestseller and master of the form\, reaches new peaks of daring in a novel that revels in contemporary absurdity and the wild poetry of everyday language while exploring the emotional truths of his characters.Hark is a smart\, incisive look at men\, women\, and children seeking meaning and dignity in a chaotic\, ridiculous\, and often dangerous world. \n  \n\n  \n“Madcap and full of love\, laughter and unexpected beauty (not to mention the world’s greatest bone marrow smuggling scheme)\, if Hark doesn’t make you stalk Sam Lipsyte and try to break up his marriage\, then you are not human.” – Gary Shteyngart\, author of Super Sad True Love Story \n  \n“Wonderfully moving and beautifully musical\, Lipsyte has penned a dastardly hysterical take on modern day rhetoric and the eternal ridiculousness of it all. More than a ‘must read\, ‘ Hark is a ‘must believe!'” – Paul Beatty\, author of The Sellout \n  \n\n  \nSam Lipsyte is the author of the story collections Venus Drive (named one of the top twenty-five books of its year by the Voice Literary Supplement) and The Fun Parts and four novels: Hark\, The Ask\, The Subject Steve\, and Home Land\, which was a New York Times Notable Book and received the first annual Believer Book Award. He is also the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. He lives in New York City and teaches at Columbia University. \n  \n\n  \nPlease note: This event will be at The Bindery\, 1727 Haight. \n  \nThis is an all ages event. The bar opens at 7\, event begins at 7:30pm. \n  \nAs with all of our events\, seating is limited and may be reserved by purchasing a book in advance. To reserve a seat\, order with the link below and be sure to include your request in the comments field. \n  \nIf you cannot attend the event but would like to requeset a signed copy of Hark\, and/or any of Sam’s books\, order below and put your request in the comments field. \n  \nRSVP appreciated but not required.
URL:https://litseen.com/event/bindery-sam-lipsyte-hark/
LOCATION:The Bindery\, 1727 Haight St\, San Francisco \, 94117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Free,San Francisco
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