Upcoming events.
(And yeah, it’s the stock picture that comes with the site. So what? It’s soothing.)
OCT 16: It’s Cancel Culture Panic at the Clayman Institute
I’ll be presenting and discussing The Cancel Culture at Stanford, and more specifically at the Clayman Institute! Find out more and RSVP here.
OCT 9: Book Event at CITY LIGHTS
I’ll be in conversation with my In Bed With the Right co-host Moira Donegan to talk cancel culture and moral panics, and specifically the moral panic about cancel culture — at City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco! Come by if you’re local!
Book Event at BOOKS INC. Palo Alto
I’ll be reading from — and talking about — The Cancel Culture Panic at Books Inc. in Palo Alto (this is in Town & Country shopping center off El Camino Real). Come see me, if you’re local!
I'll be speaking "at" the "Crossing Borders" Workshop at Oxford University
Profs. Joanna Neilly (Oxford) and Jenny Haase (Berlin) first tried to convene the International Workshop “Crossing Borders: World Literature as Contemporary Romanticism” in March of 2020 … and then COVID struck. We’re finally meeting, to discuss current work this Friday and Saturday via WebEx. The workshop is limited in attendance, but does accept visitors. I will be presenting on Roberto Bolaño and Jorge Volpi as readers of German literature.
Election Night Analysis
I’ll be helping various German-language outlets sift through the results of the Presidential Election in the United States as they arrive. While my exact schedule is still taking shape, I will write for the election blog for ZEIT Online sometime in the late afternoon Pacific. I will be featured on their election night podcast around 7:30 pm PST, on the election night live cast from taz — die tageszeitung at 8:00 pm PST, I will do another check in with ZEIT Online at 11:00 pm PST, and finally a spot on morning radio on Bayrischer Rundfunk at 11:30 pm on Nov. 3 / 8:30 am on Nov. 4 German time. I will link to these pieces (and the write-ups that will inevitably follow) on this site. Go vote, everyone!
Stanford Public Interest Technology Lab
I’ll be speaking at the Stanford Public Interest Technology Lab about What Tech Calls Thinking, education and democracy.
Logic Panel Discussion with Moira Weigel, Xiaowei Wang, Ben Tarnoff and Tim Hwang
The concluding event of City Lights Bookstore’s Logic Festival will feature a panel of all the authors of the Logic Books series from FSG Originals. Tim Hwang (Subprime Attention Crisis), Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff (Voices from the Valley), Xiaowei Wang (Blockchain Chicken Farm) and myself (What Tech Calls Thinking) in conversation with novelist Robin Sloan (Sourdough). You can RSVP (and purchase the books) here: http://www.citylights.com/bookstore/?fa=event&event_id=3712
What Tech Calls Thinking @ City Lights Books
The launch event for my book What Tech Calls Thinking, featuring a conversation between me and Joanne McNeil (author of the amazing Lurking), will take place at 7:30 pm Pacific, hosted by the legendary City Lights Bookstore. You can RSVP, buy the book from City Lights, and generally shop at one of the Bay Area’s most amazing independent bookstores here: http://www.citylights.com/info/?fa=event&event_id=3712