Luke Burgis
@lukeburgis
You don't want what you think you want. Mimetic desire, identity, culture. Author of Wanting & The One and the Ninety-Nine. Professor. Founder, @clunyinstitute
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The @ClunyInstitute is hosting @PageauJonathan tomorrow evening in DC. We'll be talking about art as 'participation', an act of communion that helps explain and solve the problem of AI art—and art in general, so long as it's understood as mere entertainment, output, consumption.
A handful of registrations are still open:
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Is it too early for Halloween/horror movie watching? If not, help me out. I'm a novice in this arena, but I want to dabble. Need suggestions. Really scare me!
I'll be talking with @patrickc at the @ClunyInstitute's ZOE conference in Napa in two weeks about New Aesthetics—including the relationship between aesthetics, ethics, culture, and life itself.
I'd like to do it Tyler Cowen style. In that spirit: What should I ask him?
For background:
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I hope you'll join me in NYC at the @92ndStreetY for this conversation with @DavidBrooks224 about my new book, "The One and the Ninety-Nine"—2 weeks from now!
There are still tickets available:
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I was waiting for the chance to write an essay on the topic—and I will soon, because I can't wait to share some exciting details with you all—but now seems like as good a time as any to announce that I am the recipient of a New Aesthetics grant award, thanks to the generosity of @patrickc (who will be speaking with me about New Aesthetics and Life at the ZOE Conference by @ClunyInstitute in Napa this summer) and @tylercowen.
In the age of Artificial Intelligence—and Social Contagion—the kind of disarming beauty that breaks through, surprises, and dislocates will be required to express the magnificence of our humanity in the 21st century.
I hope to see you this summer:
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