Important Announcement - Course Content & Discussion Forum now FREE for ALL

AND SOME EXCITING ORIGINALS FOR 2025

Dear friends of the POP-UP School,

All the course material is now online free for all at
https://thepopupschool.org

Our goal is to create a Lyric Culture Community that grows.
We would love people to self-organize local learning groups around the course content. There is a dedicated channel for discussions & for you to post any videos of your sessions that you have recorded and want to share. This way we can watch our community grow!

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Starting in January, 2025 the content here at the substack POP-UP School will be integrated with a new podcast series we are developing called The Originals. This content will be availabale to paid subscribers only. I am very excited about this prospect which we are developing as part of a launch creation for The Divinity School. (Check out the link, we are beginning to accept students already!)

Paid subscribers will get access to the premiere of each episode, which will be in the form of a live, on-line watch party, where we will both wath the original interview, and talk about it as we watch through it. Each original video will be posted in a public channel hosted by the Divinity School’s media library.

If you want to have full access to the sessions, make sure you are registered here as a paid subscriber.

To give you a taste of the flavor of the series, here are some upcoming episodes we are planning (note: not all episodes are confirmed):

• Bayo Akomolafe: Religious Imagination from the Yoruba tales of Eshu to the allegories of Coyote and why they are more relevant today than ever

• Ezequiel Di Paolo: The Horizons of Evolutionary Intelligence: Linguistic Bodies and Sensorimotor Agency

• Luciano Floridi: All AI Roads Lead to Rome: How Advances in AI and the Decoupling of Intelligence and Agency are Driving Us to New Forms of Governance

• Sabine Hossenfelder: The Uncanny Marriage of Physics and Existential Precarity: Why science has become stuck, philosophy has become suspect, and people can no longer think of a future that they want

• Sara Walker: Endless Forms Most Beautiful: Heterodox Physics, Information Theory, and The Evolution of Life & Mind

• Evan Thompson: Blinded by the Light: When science distorts more than it reveals, we lose sight of our shared humanity.

• John Todd: Pragmatic Imagination: How dreams of a flourishing planet become real

• Jordan Peterson: Staring Down the Looking Glass: How religious innovations reveal more about ourselves than we want to know

If you would like to support this work, please consider making a donation to our scholarship fund (through Alderlore, Inc. our education non-profit).