Art for Art’s Sake: Writing Aesthetic Fiction in an Age of Literary Moralism

Join American novelists A. Natasha Joukovsky (The Portrait of a Mirror) and Tara Isabella Burton (Here in Avalon; Social Creature) for a salon on the nature of novelistic responsibility, the prevailing ethos of historico-political utility in contemporary fiction and its discontents, and the literary pursuit of beauty and truth. In her 2022 essay for Lit Hub “Anxiety and Irresponsibility: What…

$15.00

The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create – SuperSalon with Steve Kaczynski and Scott Kominers

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Harvard Business School professor and a16z research partner Scott Kominers and web3 entrepreneur Steve Kaczynski join hosts Alaka Halder and Wes Chow for a SuperSalon on how NFTs will become…

$20.00

The Feminist Case for Progress

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What do new pharmacological and technological developments mean for women's liberation? Join Genomics PhD student Ruxandra Teslo to discuss the value of progress from a feminist perspective. Contemporary feminism often holds a disparaging stance towards technological advancement. On one side, there are progressive feminists who criticize capitalism & its products; a recent example is Kate…