{"id":1042,"date":"2009-06-05T20:56:14","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T00:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therowboat.com\/?p=1042"},"modified":"2009-06-05T20:56:14","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T00:56:14","slug":"at-the-bushwick-reading-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/2009\/06\/at-the-bushwick-reading-series\/","title":{"rendered":"At the Bushwick Reading Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"110\"I’ll be presenting a talk called “Living Wilderness” Saturday afternoon at the Bushwick Public Library’s Bushwick Reading Series<\/a>. 3pm. Discussed are Ivan Illich, Thomas Aquinas, Moses Maimonides, and a computer program I wrote in college. There will<\/em> be slides, thank goodness, ensuring a modicum of eye candy.<\/p>\n

First, we invent computers. Before long, we realize that in fact, all along, we have been computers ourselves\u2014as cognitive science all but assumes\u2014carrying hardware and software, responding to inputs with outputs. As all that we encounter becomes transcribable into information, we realize we\u2019ve been living inside a universe-computer. God is no longer a king or a father or mother, but a programmer. \u201cSo might a carpenter, looking at the moon, suppose that it is made of wood,\u201d scoffs the physicist Steven Weinberg. But there we stand, and can do no other. These machines have taken on life of their own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it isn’t just me. Not even close:<\/p>\n

An amazing interdisciplinary panel discussion with:<\/p>\n

Clara Jo<\/strong>, Video Artist
\nNathan Schneider<\/strong>, Writer\/Blogger
\nAn Xiao<\/strong>, Photographer\/Poet
\nRoger Bonair-Agard<\/strong>, Poet<\/p>\n

And readings from:
\nNicole Steinberg<\/strong>
\nParker Phillips<\/strong>
\nDan Magers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plus musical guest Colin Summers<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The event is part of the Arts in Bushwick<\/a> extravaganza, so there’s really no reason to not at least be in the neighborhood if you live in New York City and have a heartbeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\"110\"I’ll be presenting a talk called “Living Wilderness” Saturday afternoon at the Bushwick Public Library’s Bushwick Reading Series<\/a>. 3pm. Discussed are Ivan Illich, Thomas Aquinas, Moses Maimonides, and a computer program I wrote in college. There will<\/em> be slides, thank goodness, ensuring a modicum of eye candy.<\/p>\n

First, we invent computers. Before long, we realize that in fact, all along, we have been computers ourselves\u2014as cognitive science all but assumes\u2014carrying hardware and software, responding to inputs with outputs. As all that we encounter becomes transcribable into information, we realize we\u2019ve been living inside a universe-computer. God is no longer a king or a father or mother, but a programmer. \u201cSo might a carpenter, looking at the moon, suppose that it is made of wood,\u201d scoffs the physicist Steven Weinberg. But there we stand, and can do no other. These machines have taken on life of their own.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And it isn’t just me. Not even close:<\/p>\n

An amazing interdisciplinary panel discussion with:<\/p>\n

Clara Jo<\/strong>, Video Artist
\nNathan Schneider<\/strong>, Writer\/Blogger
\nAn Xiao<\/strong>, Photographer\/Poet
\nRoger Bonair-Agard<\/strong>, Poet<\/p>\n

And readings from:
\nNicole Steinberg<\/strong>
\nParker Phillips<\/strong>
\nDan Magers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Plus musical guest Colin Summers<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The event is part of the Arts in Bushwick<\/a> extravaganza, so there’s really no reason to not at least be in the neighborhood if you live in New York City and have a heartbeat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1042\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanschneider.info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}