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DESCRIPTION:The Technology\, Culture and Power Speaker Series is a monthly 
 gathering that explores critical insights on the intersections of technolo
 gy and society. Our monthly gatherings feature leading experts and scholar
 s examining the interactions of digital technologies\, culture\, and inequ
 ality. Join the TCP mailing list here. \n\nPlease join us on March 12\, 20
 26 for a lecture and Q&A with John Durham Peters\, the Maria Rosa Menocal 
 Professor of English and of Film and Media Studies at Yale University. He 
 is the author of Speaking into the Air: A History of the Idea of Communica
 tion (1999)\, Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition (2
 005)\, The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media (2015)
 \, and most recently\, Promiscuous Knowledge: Information\, Image\, and Ot
 her Truth Games in History (2020)\, with the late Kenneth Cmiel (all publi
 shed by the University of Chicago Press). \n\nTCP Lecture: On the Mortalit
 y of Minds\n\nAs far as we know the most complex thing the universe has br
 ought forth\, besides itself\, is the human mind.  Among many other things
 \, minds know things.  But what should we make of the fundamental fact tha
 t knowledge is housed in such fragile\, forgetful\, and short-lived vessel
 s as human beings?  Why do minds die--or do they?  Since the origin of wri
 ting\, and likely long before that\, humans found ways to externalize mind
 .  In complex societies\, the library is the key symbol of mind embedded i
 n matter.  At least since Socrates in Plato’s Phaedrus\, thinkers have b
 een anxious about this externalization.  Was he right to criticize writing
 ?  How should we criticize other mind-storage technologies? And how might 
 we think about the would-be total library of the internet\, and of its oft
 -remarked administration by tech Caesars with the ambition often to by-pas
 s death altogether?  This talk tries to address very basic matters in ligh
 t of recent reformulations of mind.
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SUMMARY:John Durham Peters: On the Mortality of Minds
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