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The course begins Begins Sunday, November 24 2024 Sign up here: https://www.parallax-media.com/courses/unique-self-20-portal-1-intimacy-eros-and-evolutionary-love-with-marc-gafni Mighty Networks Portal: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/H5t4LWITEiibcvwL?utm_source=manual

Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual About David Herz: Hello. My names are David Salzmann Herz. I was born in Boston 70 years ago when McCarthy was getting his comeuppance. I lived with my family somewhere in Massachusetts before moving to Belo Horizonte, Brazil , as part of the Department of the Interior’s Punto Quatro program where my father was instrumental in mapping the geology and training a generation of Brazilian geologists. I began writing aged ten at the American school of Sao Paolo which had scorpions in the sandbox. I won a turtle for my prose. Then we lived in Chevy Chase, Maryland before moving to Athens, Ga. Where I met the poet Colman Barks and other luminaries. I moved to Chicago and studied briefly under Del Close at Second City and David Mamet who was then directing the Goodman Theater. As well as Richard McKeon at the University of Chicago who taught Susan Sontag among others. Then I returned home and drove a car from Selma, Alabama to Warminster Pennsylvania, possibly damaging the transmission while accelerating against the snow and ice. The next three years in a bankrupt New York City were richness incarnate. I worked at the Oh Ho So restaurant in SoHo and as a busboy served Harry Belafonte, one of the reasons God created humans, a glass of water. I had Alice Notley, poetess supreme, for a teacher and read my prose work at the Saint Marks in the Bowery Poetry Project. Those were wild times, buildings burning, trash uncollected, rapes a’plenty, and great generosity from compassionate lawyers, doctors and dentists for the impoverished lot we were. You could easily meet people such as John Cage, Merce Cunningham, John Giorno, Ted Berrigan, David Byrne, Patti Smith, Fred Sherry, Nam June Paik, Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Charles Bernstein, Tony Towle, Bill Berkson, Eileen Myles, Ted Greenwald, John Cale, Lydia Lunch, Alan Vega, and avoid others such as Valerie Solanas. And then just as I was about to join a rock and roll band I moved to Paris. It’s been 45 years. Odd jobs subtitling movies and Sipa Photopress Agency photographs. Doing journalism for English language papers, interviewing the B- 52’s, Peter Brook, Zouc, Herbert Achternbusch, Paul Lederman, Boris Bergman and then working for Bull and Alcatel two fine French corporations employing hundreds of thousands who equally vanished into the capitalist sunset. Thanks to a flutist friend in Ircam I got to meet Karlheinz Stockhausen and Pierre Boulez but I don’t think they remember me. I did a translation for Sophie Calle before she became Sophie Calle. Also some work for the Royal family of Afghanistan. Back when there was one. At Paris VIII University still in the Bois de Vincennes with the whores whom we did not try to lead to culture I got to attend classes by Lyotard & Deleuze and the Miller Brothers, Lacan’s son in laws? Noam Chosmky spoke. I thought to become a consultant in a moment of delusion and ended up teaching for the last 24 years: Polytechnique, SciencesPo, ENST, INT, Supelec, Ecole Centrale, ENPC, ENSTA, Paris V, ICP, ESIEE, ECE, Ecole du Louvre. Before that I was a technical translator, a field I am happy to report that has been almost entirely taken over by machines, bless their soulless bodies. I also got married and my wife and I had two children. But we hadn’t really grown up much to the needless suffering of the children and so that marriage went painfully bust...Then I married again and we had a daughter. She’s on the phone right now, de rigueur for all 16 year olds. I am a loving observer of the human experiment of which I am inextricably a part, how so ever much I would like to be apart. As we advance, not necessarily progress, into the numbing, memory erasing age of AI, already sinking its canines deep into our pranic jugulars, lose ourselves in our beloved electronic devices, we must look to our hands, our analog writing devices such as pencils and pens and give them a try. Along with all the rest.

Professor Ulrike Beate Guérot ist eine deutsche Politikwissenschaftlerin und Publizistin. Sie ist Professorin am Departement Europapolitik und Demokratieforschung an der Donau-Universität Krems, und Gründerin des European Democracy Lab in Berlin. Sie beschäftigt sich mit der Zukunft des europäischen Integrationsprozesses und vielfache Buchautorin. "Der Fall Ulrike Guérot: Versuche einer öffentlichen Hinrichtung" ist gerade im Buchhandel erschienen! Die Politikwissenschaftlerin Prof. Ulrike Guérot im Gespräch mit Tom Amarque über das Versagen der Medien, den Niedergang der Friedensbewegung und der diplomatischen Lösungen, die Rolle der USA im Ukraine-Konflikt, und ihr neues Buch "Der Ausverkauf der Republik".

On gods and monsters.

Join our poetry Salon and Open Mic: https://parallax-media-network.mn.co/share/5hSLvQW7bNszFGEo?utm_source=manual About Chim Nwabueze: Chim Nwabueze is a New York poet currently living in France. He is the author of Experiments and Drafts (usu), Convergences (usu), Fenêtre Dissimulée (L'Harmattan), and Fanfares à couteaux tirées (L'Harmattan) as well as recordings of experimental music around the saw and guitar: Improvisations for saw and piano harp (with Sylvie Menta), Green Report 6 (with Tatsuya Nakatani), Near and Far: live at 7 lézards (with Joëlle Léandre), Duets to Rahsaan Roland Kirk (with Ramon Lopez, Leo Records) and Axis Drift: White Spider Silence.

Marianne Costa, a renowned Tarot expert and author of 'The Way of Tarot,' shares her deep insights into the history and symbolism of Tarot. She unravels its transformative power, particularly through the significance of the trump card. Costa discusses how Tarot serves as a language for emotional exploration and personal growth, linking it to broader spiritual teachings. Additionally, she emphasizes the importance of humility and authenticity in Tarot reading, while exploring the connections between family dynamics and Tarot's intricate narrative.

Luke Behncke, raised in rural Australia and a practitioner of Gurdjieff's system, engages in a deep dialogue with visionary philosopher Jordan Hall, who recently converted to Christianity. They explore the connections between Gurdjieff's teachings and contemporary Christian thought, highlighting the importance of a living faith and personal spiritual practices. The conversation touches on themes like parental vulnerability in child development, the duality of sleep in spiritual growth, and the tension between personal agency and spiritual connection, alongside the complexities of good and evil.

Zak Stein and Michael Gibson, co-founders of the 1517 Fund, delve into the transformation of education in the digital age. They discuss how AI and technology are reshaping learning, advocating for more accessible and community-driven models. The conversation explores the importance of personal interactions in education versus the rise of machine-generated content. They critique the current university system and highlight the need for innovative approaches to foster creativity and intrinsic motivation, challenging traditional educational values along the way.