Searching for God in the Algorithm: Gnosticism & Metamodernism

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Foundational Reading

Required Book
The Nag Hammadi Scriptures

The Nag Hammadi Scriptures

Marvin Meyer

Specified Selections (Chapters, episodes, pages, etc.):

  • Gospel of Thomas
  • Gospel of John
Required Book
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again

A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again

David Foster Wallace

Specified Selections (Chapters, episodes, pages, etc.):

  • E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction
Required Video

Metamodernism: a brief introduction (from the authors of "Notes on Metamodernism")

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Required Resource

Notes on Metamodernism (PDF)

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Required Video

Bo Burnham: Inside

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Required Video

Everything Everywhere All at Once

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The Buffet

Gnosticism

Book
The gnostic religion

The gnostic religion

Hans Jonas

Specified Selections (Chapters, episodes, pages, etc.):

  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2
Book
The gnostic gospels

The gnostic gospels

Elaine Pagels

Book
Thunder, Perfect Mind

Thunder, Perfect Mind

Lee Lozowick

Book
Valis.

Valis.

Philip K. Dick

Book
Techgnosis

Techgnosis

Erik Davis

Book
The stranger

The stranger

Albert Camus

Metamodernism

Book
The Listening Society

The Listening Society

Hanzi Freinacht

Book
A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again

A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again

David Foster Wallace

Book
The Transparency Society

The Transparency Society

Byung-Chul Han

Book
Seeing Through the World

Seeing Through the World

Jeremy Johnson

Searching for God in the Algorithm

Book
Stories of Your Life and Others

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Specified Selections (Chapters, episodes, pages, etc.):

  • "Hell Is the Absence of God"
Book
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction

Matthew B. Crawford

Book
Gravity and grace

Gravity and grace

Simone Weil

Specified Selections (Chapters, episodes, pages, etc.):

  • "Attention and Will"
Resource

Nick Bostrom, "Are You Living In a Computer Simulation?"

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Book
New Dark Age

New Dark Age

James Bridle

Book
Technology and the virtues

Technology and the virtues

Shannon Vallor

Specified Selections (Chapters, episodes, pages, etc.):

  • Chapter 1
  • Chapter 11
Book
Metamagical Themas

Metamagical Themas

Douglas R. Hofstadter

Book
Meeting the Universe Halfway

Meeting the Universe Halfway

Karen Barad

Video

Tarkovsky, Stalker

In response to our most recent discussion about opening up the ways in which we engage with focus topics, this is the first workshop/salon-style assignment. Take a look at this post here for more info.

Session Notes

Opening Question