Very excited about the inaugural meeting of a reading group I proposed at The Public School on Theory and Practice. We’ll periodically meet and interrogate this oft-encountered dichotomy in a variety of domains and contexts: politics, philosophy, art, ethics. The idea is that by looking at the issue from a number of angles, domains, and styles of thought, we will generate new connections and new articulations, and hopefully erode the boundaries between the two.
I’ll be leading the first session on January 24 with Sarah Kessler trying to lay a foundation and find some orientation for the class for other folks to pick up going forward.
More info and sign-up here.
Doing a one-night workshop September 23 on Regular Expressions at The Public School. We’ll cover the basics of understanding Regex syntax, using Regex in a few popular languages, and look a few common use cases. More info here.
Leading a reading group along with Sarah Kessler at The Public School on American Pragmatism. We’ll focus primarily on Rorty, but start with discussions of Dewey and James. There will also be a few readings by Stanley Fish and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
The class will have three meetings on July 12, 26, and August 9.
You can find more info here.
Teaching a course (really more leading a reading group) at The Public School on Laclau and Mouffe’s concepts of Hegemony and Antagonism. The reading group will involve a close reading of “Hegemony and Socialist Strategy” and selections from Mouffe and Laclau’s writing on Antagonism. We will also explore related texts by Richard Rorty, Jurgen Habermas, and possibly Derrida.
The class will have three meetings on September 14, 23, and 28.
You can find more info here.
The Public School is a new, community driven, program happening at the TELIC Arts Exchange. The idea behind the school is that anyone can sign-up, propose a class they want to teach, or a class they’d like to take, and express interest in classes that others have proposed. A rotating curriculum committee then chooses which classes to offer based on interest, feasibility, etc.
The general thrust of the curriculum is art and technology based, but there has been interest in a variety of topics which hopefully will keep things lively. I’m a member of the course-selection committee (D.A.N.) and after our first meeting I’m even more excited about the school and what’s to come. There are so many great classes proposed so far, I can’t wait for class to begin.