Open Call
Live Streamed discussion between Bob Garfield and Lawrence Weschler
500
No deadline
September 01, 2021 - September 02, 2021
No meals
Courses, Critique, Discussion, Mentors, Panel, Publication, Readings, Seminars
Activists, Research, Social Practice, Thinkers
English, Italian, Korean, Spanish
mankind has been reduced to living underground, in hexagonal rooms “like the cells of a bee” with no apertures and throbbing ventilation, each cell containing a single individual, though everyone is connected to everyone else by way of a vast hive of intermeshed video screens. Zoom, as it were, avant la lettre. For this is how the great E. M. Forster’s visionary 1909 story “The Machine Stops” begins, with a son calling out to videoconference with his mother on the other side of the globe, to chat and to complain, “The Machine is much, but it is not everything. I see something like you in this plate, but I do not see you. I hear something like you through this telephone, but I do not hear you.”
