On this week's Front Table, explore the most elemental aspects of humanity: perseverance and artistry - from an analyses of structural oppression and the changes necessary to end it to how to appreciate the art we, and others, create regardless of the world around us. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
How to Write Like a Writer: A Sharp and Subversive Guide to Ignoring Inhibitions, Inviting Inspiration, and Finding Your True Voice
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Thousands of innocent people are behind bars in the United States. But proving their innocence and winning their release is nearly...
Poet Christian Schlegel answers some questions about his newest collection, ryman.
Christian Schlegel is also the author of the poetry collection ...
On December 5th, at 12:30pm, The Institute on the Formation of Knowledge will present "What Exactly is the self?" as part of the Cultures & Knowledge Workshop Series. This workshop will be presented by Eric Oliver.
This presentation will take place both online in person at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge (5737 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637).
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About the presentation: Humanity’s wisest thinkers generally agree that “know...
On this week's Front Table, find masterfully combined voices that create seamless stories, from an account of hip-hop's rise told in the voices of the DJs, producers, and artists who made it happen to the complex history of the world's oldest trees told in the voices of Indigenous peoples, religious figures, and contemporary scientists who study elderflora in crisis. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
On November 14, at 12:30pm, The Institute on the Formation of Knowledge will present "From Loving the Data to Loving Automation: Epistemic Shifts in the Digital Age" as part of the Cultures & Knowledge Workshop Series. This workshop will be presented by Karin Knorr Cetina and Joshua Silver.
This presentation will take place both online in person at the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge (5737 South University Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637).
REGISTER FOR THE ONLINE EVENT HERE
REGISTER FOR THE IN-PERSON EVENT HERE
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On this week's Front Table, explore the uncanny territory where the self ends and community begins, from a man who finds his life meshing with his new neighbors living in the glass-walled house next door to a story of three orphaned siblings who, after their parents die, are left to raise one another. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
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On this week's Front Table, discover how one survives the apocalypse, the death of a loved one, the experience of growing old, or of losing your mind. From the daughter of a legacy of fathers who died by suicide radically imagining their final days to an incarcerated mother vying for her children’s forgiveness after recovering from psychosis. Find the following and more at semcoop.com
