What Philosophy Can Do for Art

August 16, 2010

What Philosophy Can Do For Art
a Research Club production

WHEN: 11am to 12:30pm Weekly on Saturday from July 31st to September 25, 2010
WHERE: 215 SE Morrison (Portland Storage Building) Suite 2020
COST: $5-$10 per class

For thousands of years, philosophers have been trying to understand how and why we think, and most of us haven’t paid any attention to them. Over the course of 9 weeks, University of Oregon doctoral student VA Carter will use plain language and clever pictures to give you a broad and thorough history of the important thinkers in western thought. Every artist or creative type has to scale a mountain of nonsense just to figure out what it is they’re doing. It turns out that a lot of philosophers have written down what happens on that mountain of nonsense, and understanding what they have to say can give you shortcuts and keep you from getting lost. Artists take note — this class is the lost user’s manual for your brain.

Class Schedule
Classes run from 11am to 12:30
Every Saturday From July 31st to September 25, 2010
Classes are taught in pairs so you can try out two at a time if you don’t want to sign up for the whole thing at once. But if you do, you get a further 10% off the whole thing.
$5 / $10 per class

Saturday, September 4 BERGSON

THE DIFFERENCE OF BERGSON
or A Pair of Evolutions

It didn’t take long after Darwin for someone to think evolution into the halls that house philosophy: Bergson, who debated Einstein over the nature of time, will break us into the 20th century with a biological understanding of just what drives creation.

Come find out why it was Bergson’s speaking appointments that caused the first traffic jams in new york, what a time cone is, the big difference between ants and people, and the meaning of elan vital.

Join us on a field trip to the rose gardens to learn the difference between differentiation and differenciation, the purpose of intuition, and how to access the realm of dream

Bergson changed the rules by helping us to understand the way the rules change. Stop and smell the roses while we figure out how to put him to use.

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THIS WEEK’S CLASS WILL BE A FIELD TRIP TO THE ROSE GARDENS! WE WILL MEET AT RESEARCH CLUB HEADQUARTERS (215 SE Morrison St.) AND THEN HEAD OVER THE RIVER. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU ARE ON TIME. IF YOU HAVE A CAR THAT OTHER PEOPLE CAN RIDE IN, IT WOULD BE SUPER COOL TOO.

Saturday, August 28 NIETZSCHE

NIETZSCHE’S FAVORITE DONKEY
or The Very Very Big Yes

The end of philosophy as it was and the real beginning of the infinite game in earnest, Nietzsche’s thought takes us out of the cave and away from the sun at the same time. we’ll come back to earth and have ourselves a Dionysian day.

Come find out how the body made a comeback, why dancing is important for a thinker, what happens after the sun explodes, and how to let the will to power course through your veins with new vigor.

Meet a brand new demon, morn the death of god, and learn the importance of proper care for your intestines.

Nietzsche is everybodys favorite. Bring your favorites along for a great time.

Saturday, August 21 HEGEL

JUST SAY NO, OVER AND OVER, UNTIL YOU BUILD A WORLD OUT OF IT
or: The amazing productive power of negation

In this class we will be discussing how the internal conflicts in the structure of reality drive the evolution of human society towards absolute order and harmony and why both the communists and the Nazis were just a bunch of Hegelians who didn’t know how to enjoy the inevitability of progress.

Come by and find out why everybody and their brother has been trying to out-Hegel Hegel since he out-Kanted Kant and why Kurzweil’s singularity is just another way of saying Hegel was right but just ahead of his time.

Say no to boredom. Say no to the same. Say no to the old, and watch it all transform into something you’ve never seen before.

I promise it will be great.

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