Courses/Seminars …
The Enlightenment and The Modern State: The Illusion of Freedom
A society planned through a rational state was supposed to abolish tyranny, poverty and injustice but instead laid the foundations for 20th century totalitarianisms, what went wrong? 23 April – 9 July 21
The oneness of time and being: explore the Zen philosophy of Eihei Dogen
“Life is not coming, not going, not present, not becoming. … life is the manifestation of the whole works, death is the manifestation of the whole works.” – Dogen. 05 Jun – 26 Jun ’21
Beyond the Human?
The fields of synthetic biology and artificial life are merging with artificial intelligence to put our conceptions of what it is to be human in doubt. What are the consequences of thinking ‘beyond the human’? 08 Jul – 12 Aug ’21
Philosophy of the Sublime: Horror
The sublime – dreadful, ecstatic, terrifying, awesome, uncanny, perverse – names the uncommon in human experience. The dark sublime of horror reveals our mortality and those dangerous transformations of self that lead us into an unsettling beyond. 20 Jul – 03 Aug ’21
Philosophy of the Sublime: Magic & Imagination
The philosophical sublime refers to those terrifying and delightful realities that exist beyond the common everyday, it is these that the magician seeks to experience and use to achieve a cosmic elevation of the self. 10 Aug – 24 Aug ’21
See also …
 | Agents of Erasure The second instalment of a series of novellas evoking post-artificial, post-sexual worlds in an imaginary version of the Solar System. This metaphysical melodrama charts the inter-planetary journeys of several human-like beings who kill while searching for their cosmic origins ... |  | Eidopolis The first instalment of a series of novellas evoking post-artificial, post-sexual worlds in an imaginary version of the Solar System. In this metaphysical melodrama, an existential crisis unfolds in lunar mega-city ‘Eidopolis.’ Death becomes the profound totem of a dawning post-mortal existence … |
 | Jupiter|Saturn The third instalment of a series of novellas evoking post-artificial, post-sexual worlds in an imaginary version of the Solar System. In this metaphysical melodrama, the transformation of the Solar System brings about a synthesis of organic, organismic, machine and nuclear modes of being … and the suicide of a God. |  | The Last Days of The Most Hidden Man Mental machines dream of great power … This metaphysical melodrama takes place in a technocratic society sealed-off from an Earth in ecological crisis. The emergence of consciousness in a machine triggers a process of social disintegration as atavistic impulses, thought long buried, erupt. A new order of mental being will come to displace and supersede the old human world. Dreaming machines portend apocalypse … |