Official! Program, Schedule & Tickets for Cultural Futurist Salon IV - Artificial Irreverence
All Tomorrows Civilizations
It’s artificial, but is it intelligent? On June 22nd, 2024 @ 3 PM EST, Cultural Futurist Salon IV - Artificial Irreverence - All Tomorrow Civilizations will begin. Here is the official event program with descriptions of all the talks, readings, and live performances. I’ve posted the Zoom link for my paid subscribers under the cut, and it just so happens that I’m offering a 42% off Lifetime Discount to anyone who joins The Cultural Futurist before the salon takes place. Joining as a paid member will grant you entrance to all upcoming Cultural Futurist Salons and book clubs that will be held monthly in 2024 and beyond, online and IRL.
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IT’S TIME TO GET IRREVERENT
Has everything gone artificial? If so, does that make humanity irrelevant? Perhaps our only choice is to get irreverent. In a society where Artificial Intelligence is rapidly accelerating, is Human Intelligence rapidly declining? What does civilization look like in an increasingly artificial world? What ever shall we do with the civilization we currently inhabit? What futures will we entertain for all tomorrows civilizations?
EVENT PROGRAM
3 PM EST - Rachel Haywire: Opening Keynote - Civilization and Honor [5 minutes]
Salonnière Rachel Haywire will welcome everyone to Cultural Futurist Salon IV. She’ll discuss the importance of leaving a mark on one’s civilization by creating impactful works and showing a strength of character, no matter how artificial things may seem.
3:10 PM EST - D. Harlan Wilson: 10 minute reading from Nietzsche
D. Harlan Wilson is an award-winning American novelist, editor, professor, and playwright whose oeuvre bridges the aesthetics of literary theory and speculative fiction. He is the author of over thirty works of fiction and nonfiction and his books and stories have been translated into over ten languages. For Artificial Irreverence - All Tomorrows Civilizations, he’ll be reading selections from his latest book Nietzsche, a biography of Nietzsche that is not a biography of Nietzsche.
3:20 PM EST - Sarah Fletcher: 10 minute reading from Plus Ultra
Sarah Fletcher is a writer living in London. She’s currently studying for a PhD in the philosophy of pain at Aberystwyth University. Her poetry has been published in The Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Rialto, and the White Review. Her debut collection PLUS ULTRA was published in 2023 by CHEERIO Publishing/The Francis Bacon Estate. She’ll be gracing all of us at the salon with a reading from PLUS ULTRA.
3:30 PM EST - John Artco: An Anglofuturist Civilization [10 minutes talk + 5 minute Q&A]
John Artco is a subcultural archivist with a focus on political movements and their roots. He’ll be going over his ideas for Anglofuturism and the Anglosphere from a British perspective, examining the parallels between the sci-fi classics Albions Seed and All Tomorrows while taking us on a vitalist journey of aesthetics and civilizations to come.
3:45 PM EST - Anatoly Karlin: The Case for Biological Accelerationism [10 minute talk + 5 minute Q&A]
Anatoly Karlin of the Elite Human Capital Substack is a blogger and intelligence researcher interested in accelerating human intelligence enhancement. He’ll be discussing Biological Accelerationism (Bio/Acc) and more at Cultural Futurist Salon IV. In his own words, “Biosingularity is preferable to paperclips or Idiocracy.” Who could disagree with that?
4 PM EST - Sam Kahn: What I Learned from Dating Russian Women - A Reflection of Mentalities [10 minute talk + 5 minute Q&A]
Sam Kahn is the writer behind the Castalia. As a documentary producer, he has worked on series for Netflix, Showtime, A&E, and Paramount. He’ll be sharing what he learned from dating Russian women with salon attendees as he reflects on his experiences with us. This one is guaranteed to be thought-provoking and intense. Can you handle it?
4:15 PM EST - Mac Vogt: Cancelled Poetry Slam Jam - 10 minute reading
Mac Vogt is a poet based in Toronto. He was raised in New Hampshire and underwent a film education in Pittsburgh. His work contains formal and avant-garde elements, trained on a speculative romanticism whose possibility is staked by the recent advancements in Artificial Intelligence. There is nowhere that Mac Vogt is afraid to go with his voice, so strap the fuck in and accelerate.
4:25 PM EST - Freddie Bastiat: 10 minute reading of Birthing a Ghost from Fractal America
Freddie Bastiat is the former Managing Editor of Trigger Warning, an amateur science fiction writer, and all-around malcontent. He’s the author of the Fractal America anthology and will be reading Birthing a Ghost for us at All Tomorrows Civilizations. This is America, so let a million micro-civilizations bloom.
4:35 PM EST - Musical Break/Banter/Infight/Whatever
5 PM EST - Mo Pittle (JewBoy): Civilization on the Local Level [10 minute talk + 5 minute Q&A]
If you’ve been to Austin, you’ve been to JewBoy Burgers. At Cultural Futurist Salon IV we’ll introduce you to the man behind the burger, Mo Pittle. He spent the first 20 years of his career working as a copywriter and creative director for several ad agencies on both coasts as he founded and operated his own shop in El Paso. In 2014 he relocated to Austin, where he opened JewBoy Burgers as a food truck and case study in civilization-based marketing. JewBoy would ultimately evolve into 3 restaurants and 2 food trailers. Here, Mo is ready to share his adventures with us.
5:30 PM EST - J. Daniel Sawyer: Civilizational Architecture - What Happened to Public Beauty? [10 minute talk + 5 minute Q&A]
Daniel Sawyer is a novelist, essayist, and audio producer with a longstanding interest in architecture as a bellwether for culture. At Cultural Futurist Salon IV - Artificial Irreverence, he will talk about the macro-historical trends that enabled the rise of the Bauhaus school and the destruction of public beauty. What happened to public beauty? What can we do to increase its civilizational growth?
5:45 PM EST - Nikki Olson: The Eve of Transformation [10 minute talk + 5 minute Q&A]
Nikki Olson (e/acc) is a tech startup founder in the medical wearables space. Throughout her career, she has championed the advancement of AI and other technologies that transform humanity at an existential level. As we approach the advent of smarter-than-human Artificial Intelligence, the potential experiences that one could miss out on by not living to see this next era of humanity are profound. Does this unique position in history call for a new kind of precaution? Nikki Olson will explore the arguments of key personalities and groups in this unique pre-AI era, and in particular Bryan Johnson with his “Don’t Die” objective.
6 PM EST - Philip Daniel: Musica Apocalyptica [10 minute classical performance]
“Rhapsodien” (Rhapsodies), scored for the sorahi family of bowed string instruments invented by the late Mohammed-Reza Shahjarian, is characteristic of composer Philip Daniel’s mature style in its complexity of form, harmony, counterpoint, and motivic development as well as its ever-shifting color. In this third movement, Daniel subjects the yearning main theme of the first movement to fiery, cataclysmic variations, concluding in an explosive burst of energy.
6:10 PM EST - zenKOAL: Sensual Poetry [15 minute reading/performance]
Get ready for the experience that is zenKOAL, the Philosopher Queen who is proud to have been raised and trained with the three-dimensional navigational traits required before modernity became a fractalized rendition of an Andy Warhol prophecy. She experiments with AI in divination and as an oracular supplement but maintains solid physical practices as a patron of the Divine Feminine and an aspirant in erotic mysticism. She will be reading/invoking choice selections from her ever-growing archives of erotic poetry, documenting her first-hand experience in an age where digital castration increasingly prevails.
6:25 PM EST - Guilty by Design: Dark Melodic Rock and Roll [15 minute concert]
Enter the passionate and brooding world of Guilty by Design. Infamous for captivating audiences with their unique blend of dark melodic rock and roll, they’ve become notorious for their dynamic and immersive live performances. Their sound is characterized by deep lyrical content and powerful soundscapes, establishing them as a standout act in the alternative rock scene. This wouldn’t be a Cultural Futurist Salon without a band creating the future of culture on the lineup.
6:40 PM EST - FiLTHMiLK: Industrial [15 minute concert]
FiLTHMiLK is an industrial artist who describes himself as “a human-controlled machine apparatus in opposition to the machine controlling human apparatus.“ In these last days before the robot apocalypse, he thinks us carbon lifeforms must huddle together for warmth and comfort before we are all wiped out by our robot overlords. Concluding Artificial Irreverence, we’ll discover the potential of humanity and civilization once again.
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