/79/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 4
🕑 Added 2019-07-11 15:16:58 +0000 UTCIn part four, we broaden the scope, to talk about the Frankfurt School, the humanities and 'romantic anti-capitalism'. If modernity features a battle between romanticism and rationalism, then the hippies represented an attempt to re-enchant a disillusioned world. But as that spirit was incorporated into market dynamics, it became rationalised and commodified. George and Alex sat down with Catherine Liu and Tyrus Miller (UCI Humanities & expert on Lukacs) to mull over these questions.
#CaliBunga is a special multipart series on the Californian Ideology: the seemingly paradoxical hybrid of New Left and New Right ideas - the synthesis of hippies with yuppies, all tied together with the promise that technology might liberate us.
Thanks to UC Irvine School of Humanities for sponsoring this series.
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Aufhebunga Bunga
We're working on the details, but will try to do a live hangout (bandwidth permitting). Regardless, you can send us questions/points you have, and we'll discuss them!
Aufhebunga Bunga
We're working on the details, but will try to do a live hangout (bandwidth permitting). Regardless, you can send us questions/points you have, and we'll discuss them!
Spencer horne
How does one go about ‘participating’ in the reading group (other than doing the reading)?