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SUMMARY:Jenny Odell - - How to Do Nothing
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, April 18\n7:00pm\n\nEAST BAY BOOKSELLERS welcomes Jenny Odell to discuss her new new book How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy\, on Thursday\, March 18th at 7pm. \nA galvanizing critique of the forces vying for our attention—and our personal information—that redefines what we think of as productivity\, reconnects us with the environment\, and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about ourselves and our world \nNothing is harder to do these days than nothing. But in a world where our value is determined by our 24/7 data productivity . . . doing nothing may be our most important form of resistance. \nSo argues artist and critic Jenny Odell in this field guide to doing nothing (at least as capitalism defines it). Odell sees our attention as the most precious—and overdrawn—resource we have. Once we can start paying a new kind of attention\, she writes\, we can undertake bolder forms of political action\, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment\, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress. \nFar from the simple anti-technology screed\, or the back-to-nature meditation we read so often\, How to do Nothing is an action plan for thinking outside of capitalist narratives of efficiency and techno-determinism. Provocative\, timely\, and utterly persuasive\, this book is a four-course meal in the age of Soylent. \n* * * \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nJenny Odell is an artist and writer who teaches at Stanford\, has been an artist-in-residence at places like the San Francisco dump\, Facebook\, the Internet Archive\, and the San Francisco Planning Department\, and has exhibited her art all over the world. She lives in Oakland. \n\n\n\n\nEvent date:\n\nThursday\, April 18\, 2019 – 7:00pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\nEast Bay Booksellers\n5433 College Avenue\n\nOakland\, CA 94618
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LOCATION:East Bay Booksellers\, 5433 College Avenue\, Oakland\, 94618
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SUMMARY:David Presti: Mind Beyond Brain
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, Apr 18\, 2019 7:00 PM \nLocation: \nThe Basement at Moe’s\n2476 Telegraph Ave.\, Berkeley \nWebsite \nMind Beyond Brain is about expanding an empirical science of mind and consciousness. One way forward in developing an expanded science of mind is to take seriously empirical data for phenomena that are not accounted for within the current explanatory framework – the anomalies within contemporary science. The discussion in this book is placed in the context of the contemporary dialogue between Buddhism and science – specifically neuroscience\, psychology\, and physics – a conversation that has evolved substantially over the last 35 years. Despite many developments that have arisen from this conversation\, an important aspect that has not thus far been much appreciated is the engagement of complementary worldviews – one wherein mind is a relatively late evolutionary addition\, and another wherein mind and world are far more deeply and interdependently related. \nDavid Presti teaches neurobiology\, psychology\, and cognitive science at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he has been on the faculty for 28 years. For ten years he worked in the clinical treatment of substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder at the VA Medical Center in San Francisco. And for the last 15 years he has been teaching neuroscience and dialoguing about science with Tibetan Buddhist monks and nuns in India\, Nepal\, and Bhutan. He is author of Foundational Concepts in Neuroscience: A Brain-Mind Odyssey (2016) and Mind Beyond Brain: Buddhism\, Science\, and the Paranormal (2018).
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LOCATION:Moe’s Books\, 2476 Telegraph Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94704\, United States
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SUMMARY:Timothy Hampton
DESCRIPTION:Timothy Hampton\n\n\n\n\nPresents Bob Dylan’s Poetics: How the Songs Work. \n\n\n\n\n\nThursday\, April 18\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
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LOCATION:Mrs. Dalloway’s Bookstore\, 2904 College Ave\, Berkeley\, CA\, 94705\, United States
CATEGORIES:East Bay,Free
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