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<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Roboto,sans-serif; white-space:pre-wrap">Hi Marcia,</span>
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<div><font face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Could you please forward the following announcement and the attached flyer to UW Cinema listserv and to other departments? Or, in other words, please "circulate widely."</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks,</span></font></div>
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Huskies,</font></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Looking
for </font></span><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif; color:rgb(34,34,34); white-space:pre-wrap">critical thinking tools to make sense of this chaotic world? Want to expand your mind this summer and participate in a radical, live, and
virtual seminar?</span></p>
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<font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Two
instructors from UW’s Cinema and Media Studies, </span><a href="https://cinema.washington.edu/people/sarah-ross" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Sarah
Ross</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
and </span><a href="https://cinema.washington.edu/people/richard-boyechko" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Richard
Boyechko</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">,
will be part of the launch of a new educational project, </span><a href="https://vitalthought.org/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">VITAL
THOUGHT</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">.
VITAL THOUGHT (VT) is a futurist education and consulting organization making critical insight accessible to
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><i>everyone</i></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
— beyond the university — through live, 2-session virtual seminars led by Ph.D.-trained instructors. The project aims to provide robust, critical and cultural tools to make sense of the world and to empower participants to navigate career and life decisions.
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">We
invite you to participate in the </span><a href="https://vitalthought.org/collections/all-summer-2022-courses" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Summer
2022 session</span></a><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">comprising
radical courses taught by a group of international </span><a href="https://vitalthought.org/pages/who-we-are" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">instructors</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></font><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif; color:rgb(34,34,34); white-space:pre-wrap">VT
seminars are open to anyone and address some of the most influential ideas and important issues in contemporary discourse. Topics range from technology ethics, metaphysics, and Afrofuturism to climate change, queer theory, art and performance. </span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">The
following two workshop-seminars will focus on contemporary issues by providing conceptual tools to participants for thinking and engaging with the world in which we find ourselves: </font></span></p>
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<font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><a href="https://vitalthought.org/products/metaphors-of-vision-in-antonioni-s-blow-up?pr_prod_strat=collection_fallback&pr_rec_id=0dfc4cb62&pr_rec_pid=7208059601089&pr_ref_pid=7208060551361&pr_seq=uniform" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Metaphors
of Vision</span></a><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
w/ Sarah Ross</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">July
18 + 21, 6-8pm ET</span></font></p>
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<font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">How
do images produce “thought,” and what are the means by which this occurs? This course will introduce concepts from philosophy and visual studies as we engage in what it means to live surrounded by images and pictures. We will use</span></font><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif; color:rgb(34,34,34); font-weight:700; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
Michelangelo Antonioni’s film </span><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif; color:rgb(34,34,34); font-weight:700; font-style:italic; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Blow-Up</span><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif; color:rgb(34,34,34); font-weight:700; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
(1966) as a starting point for considering the relationship between perception and consciousness, image and thought.
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap; font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif">Antonioni transforms a classic “whodunit” crime thriller into a series of metaphysical questions as he explores the relationship between
looking, the process of ‘seeing,’ and reality. In the workshop, we will apply these ideas to contemporary forms of media, from social media to the news, and we will consider how images influence, impact, and frame our lives.</span></p>
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<font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><a href="https://vitalthought.org/products/deep-ecology-entangled-life-and-gaia-theory?_pos=2&_sid=3938e02ea&_ss=r" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Earth
Systems Theory</span></a><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
w/ Richard Boyechko</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">August
8+ 11, 6-8pm ET</span></font></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">In
the 1960s, inventor James Lovelock and biologist Lynn Margulis developed what is now known as Gaia Theory or Earth Systems Theory. It suggests that complex biological life on our planet is possible only because of the complex inter-working of all the biological
and geological elements in the biosphere, the thin and fragile layer where all life exists. The course will introduce the theory, its philosophical and scientific origins, and implications for thinking about the current environmental crisis.</font></span></p>
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piqued? </span><a href="https://twitter.com/vitalthoughtorg" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">@vitalthoughtcourses</span></a><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">makes
cultural insight accessible to all. </span><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">✨
</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Summer
2022 session open now </span><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">✨
Check out the attached flyer, and head over to the </span><a href="https://vitalthought.org/collections/all" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Vital
Thought website</span></a><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
to claim your seat!</span></font></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 12, 2022 3:38 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Marcia A Feinstein-Tobey <maf@uw.edu><br>
<b>Cc:</b> Richard Boyechko <boyechko@uw.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Public Summer Seminars</font>
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<div><font face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Could you please forward the following announcement and the attached flyer to UW Cinema listserv and to other departments? Or, in other words, please "circulate widely."</span></font></div>
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<div><font face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="white-space:pre-wrap">Thanks,</span></font></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Dear
Huskies,</font></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">Looking
for </font></span><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif; color:rgb(34,34,34); white-space:pre-wrap">critical thinking tools to make sense of this chaotic world? Want to expand your mind this summer and participate in a radical, live, and
virtual seminar?</span></p>
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<font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Two
instructors from UW’s Cinema and Media Studies, </span><a href="https://cinema.washington.edu/people/sarah-ross" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Sarah
Ross</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
and </span><a href="https://cinema.washington.edu/people/richard-boyechko" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Richard
Boyechko</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">,
will be part of the launch of a new educational project, </span><a href="https://vitalthought.org/" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">VITAL
THOUGHT</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">.
VITAL THOUGHT (VT) is a futurist education and consulting organization making critical insight accessible to
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><i>everyone</i></span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
— beyond the university — through live, 2-session virtual seminars led by Ph.D.-trained instructors. The project aims to provide robust, critical and cultural tools to make sense of the world and to empower participants to navigate career and life decisions.
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">We
invite you to participate in the </span><a href="https://vitalthought.org/collections/all-summer-2022-courses" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Summer
2022 session</span></a><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
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radical courses taught by a group of international </span><a href="https://vitalthought.org/pages/who-we-are" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">instructors</span></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">. </span></font><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif; color:rgb(34,34,34); white-space:pre-wrap">VT
seminars are open to anyone and address some of the most influential ideas and important issues in contemporary discourse. Topics range from technology ethics, metaphysics, and Afrofuturism to climate change, queer theory, art and performance. </span></p>
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following two workshop-seminars will focus on contemporary issues by providing conceptual tools to participants for thinking and engaging with the world in which we find ourselves: </font></span></p>
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<font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><a href="https://vitalthought.org/products/metaphors-of-vision-in-antonioni-s-blow-up?pr_prod_strat=collection_fallback&pr_rec_id=0dfc4cb62&pr_rec_pid=7208059601089&pr_ref_pid=7208060551361&pr_seq=uniform" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Metaphors
of Vision</span></a><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
w/ Sarah Ross</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">July
18 + 21, 6-8pm ET</span></font></p>
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<font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">How
do images produce “thought,” and what are the means by which this occurs? This course will introduce concepts from philosophy and visual studies as we engage in what it means to live surrounded by images and pictures. We will use</span></font><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif; color:rgb(34,34,34); font-weight:700; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
Michelangelo Antonioni’s film </span><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif; color:rgb(34,34,34); font-weight:700; font-style:italic; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Blow-Up</span><span style="font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif; color:rgb(34,34,34); font-weight:700; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
(1966) as a starting point for considering the relationship between perception and consciousness, image and thought.
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-weight:700; white-space:pre-wrap; font-family:garamond,"times new roman",serif">Antonioni transforms a classic “whodunit” crime thriller into a series of metaphysical questions as he explores the relationship between
looking, the process of ‘seeing,’ and reality. In the workshop, we will apply these ideas to contemporary forms of media, from social media to the news, and we will consider how images influence, impact, and frame our lives.</span></p>
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<font face="garamond, times new roman, serif"><a href="https://vitalthought.org/products/deep-ecology-entangled-life-and-gaia-theory?_pos=2&_sid=3938e02ea&_ss=r" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Earth
Systems Theory</span></a><span style="color:rgb(56,118,29); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
w/ Richard Boyechko</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><br>
</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">August
8+ 11, 6-8pm ET</span></font></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); background-color:transparent; font-weight:700; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="garamond, times new roman, serif">In
the 1960s, inventor James Lovelock and biologist Lynn Margulis developed what is now known as Gaia Theory or Earth Systems Theory. It suggests that complex biological life on our planet is possible only because of the complex inter-working of all the biological
and geological elements in the biosphere, the thin and fragile layer where all life exists. The course will introduce the theory, its philosophical and scientific origins, and implications for thinking about the current environmental crisis.</font></span></p>
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piqued? </span><a href="https://twitter.com/vitalthoughtorg" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">@vitalthoughtcourses</span></a><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
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cultural insight accessible to all. </span><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">✨
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2022 session open now </span><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">✨
Check out the attached flyer, and head over to the </span><a href="https://vitalthought.org/collections/all" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:underline; text-decoration-skip:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">Vital
Thought website</span></a><span style="color:rgb(38,38,38); background-color:rgb(255,255,255); font-weight:400; font-style:normal; font-variant-ligatures:normal; font-variant-caps:normal; font-variant-east-asian:normal; text-decoration:none; vertical-align:baseline; white-space:pre-wrap">
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