You are warmly invited to an evening of unhurried trouble.
On Thursday, September 24, the Schumacher Center for a New Economics will host a public conversation between Báyò Akómoláfé and David Abram, brothers in thought and cosmic mischief, as part of the W.E.B. Du Bois Fellowship Series: “Now at the End of Things, A Plea for Magic.“
It is often said that we live in disenchanted times, that the world has been measured, mapped, monetized, and mostly explained. And yet the words machine and magic grew from the same ancient root – as if modernity, in its rush to file the world under the practical, misplaced its own twin. (The twin, we suspect, has been in the room the whole time.)
Together with host Alex Forrester, Báyò and David will ask what it means to plead for magic at the end of things: when our senses of the possible are besieged, when agency has been asphyxiated into crystallized lines of the practical, and when the pragmatic insists it is the only adult in the room. This will not be a lecture. It will be closer to a séance for the possible – an evening of story, etymology, mischief, and the kind of question that does not resolve so much as it recruits.
Come as you are. Bring your doubts; they are excellent company.
Thursday, September 24 · 7:00 PM (doors 6:30)
Saint James Place, 352 Main Street, Great Barrington, MA
Sliding-scale tickets
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Let us begin.
Warm Wishes,
Staff of the Schumacher Center