Second half of part 1, of a two-part class, by Peter Lamborn Wilson on utopian poetics. Wilson discusses "imaginal quanta," education, the role of the poet in utopia, the unity of the fulfillment of individual and group, the role of apocalypse in Western thought, and the role of abstract thought in the human transformation from foraging to agriculture.(Continued from 93P066)
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Peter Lamborn Wilson class, Utopian poetics, part 1, second half, July, 1993
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Peter Lamborn Wilson class, Utopian poetics, part 1, July, 1993
First half of part 1, of a two-part class, by Peter Lamborn Wilson on utopian poetics. Wilson contrasts the authoritarian utopian tradition, from Plato to urban planning, with the anti- or non-authoritarian utopian tradition, beginning in paleolithic hunter-gatherer societies. A discussion of paleolithic and neolithic societies follows, including the role of linear time, cruelty, and calendars. Wilson then discusses the artist in her/his shamanic role, surviving as the role of the bard in Irish culture. He discusses William Blake and describes the alienation of the poet’s social function and its subsumption into media and advertising. A student question prompts a discussion of apocalyptic ideas. (Continues on 93P067)
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Caustic Soda: The Biblical Apocalypse
Our apocalypse series continues with noted biblical scholar Robert M. Price discussing the biblical apocalypse! Noah’s flood, The rapture, tribulation, second coming, millennium and last judgment are all explained so simply that even Toren can understand. Also: a brief history of failed apocalypse prophecies including Montanism, The Millerites’ Great Disappointment, Harold Camping and more. Part one of two!
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SALT - Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
David Eagleman2 April 2010 04:30Six Easy Steps to Avert the Collapse of Civilization
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Increased Chances
By Chitlins, Whiskey & Skirt Huffduffed from http://www.internotes.ch/2012/04/increased-chances
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PRI: To the Best of Our Knowledge
Waiting for the Apocalypse — Apocalyptic thinking is everywhere, from predictions about Christian "end times" to the 2012 Mayan prophecy about the end of the world. So what’s going on?
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The Incomparable #82: Apocalypse Book Club
It’s the end of the world! And since our eyeglasses are intact, we have time enough at last, to read. We discuss Maureen McHugh’s "After the Apocalypse" short-story collection, Cormac McCarthy’s "The Road," and other apocalypse tales we have known. Do zombies have their own David Attenborough, leading expeditions into Cleveland? Why should you be afraid if heavy snowfall combines with the appearance of strange invisible magic ghost sex-dragon monsters? And why does John Siracusa plan to ride out the apocalypse in style? We ask several of these questions, but you’ll have to listen to see if we ever answer any of them.
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Caustic Soda: The Sun
We are joined by solar physicist Dr. Ian O’Neill of Discovery News and astroengine.com as we discuss solar flares, coronal mass ejections, the Carrington event, red giants and white dwarfs, and tornadoes on the sun! All this plus pop culture.
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Untimely Spooky - Pre-Recorded Late Night
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Junot Diaz On What Disasters Reveal
The Dominican-American writer Junot Diaz got everybody’s attention, and a Pulitzer Prize, with his fierce, funny, tragic first novel “The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” Now, in a big new essay, Diaz has moved on to bigger themes — like apocalypse and the fate of the human race.
Junot Diaz looks at our recent headlines of earthquakes, tsunamis, meltdown fears, and floods and sees revelation. Not of the hand of God, exactly. But of human realities running amok.
We avert our eyes, he says. But these disasters must be read.
This hour, On Point: Junot Diaz, on revelation and apocalypse.
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