Amon Zero; The future of Politics
4 views
Skip to first unread message
Ben Hoskin
Feb 6, 2012, 11:07:24 AM2/6/12
to oxford-transhumanists-rationality, oxfordtran...@groupspaces.com
Hey everyone!
This week's talk will be radically different from last weeks!
Amon Zero on The Politics of the Future
Thursday 4th Week 7pm FREE OF CHARGE
This week's talk will be radically different from last weeks!
Amon Zero on The Politics of the Future
Thursday 4th Week 7pm FREE OF CHARGE
Saskatchewan Room, Exeter College, Turl Street.
"Futurism (including its many variants, such as Transhumanism and Singularitarianism) tends to hold activism as somewhat incidental, and political activism doubly so. Although understandable, such an attitude leads to a potentially dangerous Inevitablism, where it is assumed that positive outcomes will prevail “automagically”. I will discuss various forms of potential political activism relevant to Futurism, the relationship between traditional Left/Right politics and possible new paradigms, notable and sometimes unfortunate examples of pro-technology and proto-transhumanist politics in the past (such as the Italian Futurist Party of the 1920s and aspects of 1960s counterculture), and relevance to contemporary political struggles such as the Occupy movement and Anonymous. "
This talk is free, and but at future talks we'll have to start asking for a small donation; as such, exciting life membership will be on sale this thursday, for just £10 ! You should join, because it's a great thing to do.
See you on thursday,
Ben
"Futurism (including its many variants, such as Transhumanism and Singularitarianism) tends to hold activism as somewhat incidental, and political activism doubly so. Although understandable, such an attitude leads to a potentially dangerous Inevitablism, where it is assumed that positive outcomes will prevail “automagically”. I will discuss various forms of potential political activism relevant to Futurism, the relationship between traditional Left/Right politics and possible new paradigms, notable and sometimes unfortunate examples of pro-technology and proto-transhumanist politics in the past (such as the Italian Futurist Party of the 1920s and aspects of 1960s counterculture), and relevance to contemporary political struggles such as the Occupy movement and Anonymous. "
This talk is free, and but at future talks we'll have to start asking for a small donation; as such, exciting life membership will be on sale this thursday, for just £10 ! You should join, because it's a great thing to do.
See you on thursday,
Ben
Reply all
Reply to author
Forward
0 new messages