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SUMMARY:Foucault in California
DESCRIPTION:Heather Dundas in conversation with David Wade \ncelebrating the release of \nFoucault in California : A True Story—Wherein the Great French Philosopher Drops Acid in the Valley of Death \nby Simeon Wade\, Foreword by Heather Dundas \npublished by Heyday Books \n\n\n\n\nIn The Lives of Michel Foucault\, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically…of ‘an unforgettable evening on LSD\, in carefully prepared doses\, in the desert night\, with delicious music\, [and] nice people.'” This came to pass in 1975\, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade—ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor\, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death. Led by Wade and Wade’s partner Michael Stoneman\, Foucault experimented with psychedelic drugs for the first time; by morning he was crying and proclaiming that he knew Truth. \nFoucault in California is Wade’s firsthand account of that long weekend. Felicitous and often humorous prose vaults readers headlong into the erudite and subversive circles of the Claremont intelligentsia: parties in Wade’s bungalow\, intensive dialogues between Foucault and his disciples at a Taoist utopia in the Angeles Forest (whose denizens call Foucault “Country Joe”); and\, of course\, the fabled synesthetic acid trip in Death Valley\, set to the strains of Bach and Stockhausen. Part search for higher consciousness\, part bacchanal\, this book chronicles a young man’s burgeoning friendship with one of the twentieth century’s greatest thinkers. \nSimeon Wade was born July 22\, 1940\, in Alabama. After earning his Ph.D. in the intellectual history of Western civilization from Harvard in 1969\, Wade moved to California and became an assistant professor at Claremont Graduate School. His early teaching years culminated in his hosting a Death Valley trip for Michel Foucault in 1975\, an experience Foucault described as “one of the most important in my life.” Wade later taught at several universities in Southern California and worked as a psychiatric nurse. He died in Oxnard\, California\, on October 3\, 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
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LOCATION:City Lights Bookstore\, 261 Columbus Ave\, San Francisco \, CA\, 94133\, United States
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SUMMARY:COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH BILL MCKIBBEN & MUSTAFA SANTIAGO ALI In Conversation with May Boeve
DESCRIPTION:COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE WITH BILL MCKIBBEN & MUSTAFA SANTIAGO ALI\nIn Conversation with May Boeve\nTuesday\, April 30\, 2019\, 7:30 pm\nVenue: Sydney Goldstein Theater\nSeries: Conversations on Science \n Buy Tickets | Buy Series Tickets | 415.392.4400 \n\n\nBill McKibben is an author\, environmentalist\, activist\, and the co-founder of 350.org\, the first planet-wide\, grassroots climate change movement. His first book\,The End of Nature\, is considered the first book about climate change written for a general readership. McKibben has been awarded the Right Livelihood Prize\, The Gandhi Prize\, a fellowship from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and has a species of woodland gnat (Megophthalmidia mckibbeni) named in his honor. A former staff writer for The New Yorker\, McKibben regularly contributes to The New York Review of Books\, National Geographic\, and Rolling Stone\, and teaches at Middlebury College. His forthcoming debut novel\, Radio Free Vermont\, follows a band of Vermont patriots who decide that their state might be better off as its own republic. \nMustafa Santiago Ali is the senior vice president of Climate\, Environmental Justice & Community Revitalization for the Hip Hop Caucus\, a national non-profit organization that brings together members of the Hip Hop community to enact political change. Before joining the Hip Hop Caucus\, Ali worked for twenty-four years at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency\, most recently as a Senior Advisor for Environmental Justice and Community Revitalization. His work focuses on cases of social and environmental justice\, and brings a holistic approach to the revitalization of vulnerable communities. A renowned speaker\, policy maker\, community liaison\, trainer\, and facilitator\, Mustafa Santiago Ali has worked with over 500 domestic and international communities to improve people’s lives by addressing environmental\, health\, and economic justice issues. \nMay Boeve is the Executive Director of 350.org\, an international climate change campaign. She has been active in the climate movement since her days at Middlebury College. In 2006\, she co-founded and led the Step It Up 2007 campaign\, which brought together communities from 1\,400 places for a National Day of Climate Action. Four years later\, Boeve\, a self-proclaimed activist\, was handcuffed and arrested in front of the White House while protesting the Keystone XL pipeline. Through it all she has maintained her commitment to fighting for what’s right and in 2015\, Time Magazine recognized her\, as a “Next Generation Leader.” Boeve is a t
URL:https://litseen.com/event/combating-climate-change-with-bill-mckibben-mustafa-santiago-ali-in-conversation-with-may-boeve/
LOCATION:Sydney Goldstein Theater\, 275 Hayes St\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94102\, United States
CATEGORIES:San Francisco
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