Parallax Newsletter #62: Tonight! O.G. ROSE
On Philosophy and Machines
Join us Tonight Wednsday, May 24, 2023, 8 pm CET, 2 pm ET for a conversation with O.G. Rose, which is the penname of Daniel and Michelle Garner.
A finalist for the UNO Press Lab Prize and Pushcart Nominee, O.G. Rose’s creative works appear at The Write Launch, Allegory Ridge, Ponder Review, Iowa Review online, The William and Mary Review, Assure Press, Toho Journal online, O:JA&L, West Trade Review, Broken Pencil, Burningword, and Poydras Review. While at the University of Virginia, O.G. Rose worked collaboratively with other artists at Eunoia, a creative community Rose helped develop. Rose now lives on a farm with three children, manages a venue named Mead Lake Lodge, and teaches piano using visuals from the DLG Pattern Method. Their published books include The Conflict of Mind (2021), Thoughts (2022), and Belonging Again: Part 1 (2023).
Recent Podcasts and Videos:
SHOZAN JACK HAUBNER - TATHAGATA ZEN
Shozan Jack Haubner talks to Andrew Sweeny about Zen, Comedy, Love, Learning to Die, Leonard Cohen, and other things that matter the mostShozan describes himself as a Zen priest, writer, bon vivant, and confused renunciate. Failed screenwriter, poet, stand-up comic, and Catholic. Available for parties.
He is also the award-winning author of: Single White Monk: Tales of Death, Failure, and Bad Sex (Although Not Necessarily in that Order) and Zen Confidential: Confessions of a Wayward Monk.
He also runs a great YouTube channel called Zen Confidential
TAMMY PETERSON - LISTENING, BEAUTY, AND WRESTLING WITH GOD
Tammy Peterson catches up with Andrew Sweeny and speaks about her Catholic conversion, storytelling, her husband Jordan Peterson's tours, a critique of feminism, the need for deep listening, prayer, beauty, negotiation and wrestling with God. A wise and quiet but articulate counterpart to her firebrand husband.
ZAK STEIN - THE COMING OF THE SUPERMIND - EDUCATION AND AI
A conversation with educational philosopher Dr Zak Stein about the future of education, AI, and its dystopian and utopian possibilities. What happens when we create the supermind.
JOHN VERVAEKE AND CHRISTOPHER MASTROPIETRO - AFTER SOCRATES AND KIERKEGAARD
A discussion with philosopher and cognitive scientist John Vervaeke and his writing partner Christopher Mastropietro about the philosophers they love best: for John, Socrates for and Christopher Søren Kierkegaard.
MARC GAFNI - LOVE OR DIE, PART 1
The first of a monthly series of discussions, love or Die, in which Marc Discusses elaborates on what he called the global intimacy crisis with what he calls CosmoErotic Humanism. How can we rewrite the source code of the present epoch and create a new story? The stakes are high. It’s Love or Die