A Glimpse Of The Sessions - and - Monthly Registration Price Increases
Please register before July 1, or before August 1!
Just a heads-up that the cost of attending Fluidity Forum, at both tiers, will go up by $25 on July 1! Right now, it’s $300 for lodging-inclusive, and $210 for non-lodging. We’ve got some deposits to pay for.
It will rise by another $25 on August 1. Registration will close on September 1.
Here are some of the things the current list of applicants have offered so far. As always, these are subject to revision, and a few were proposed as either-or alternatives.
Proposed Presentations
“Parting The Veil of Scientific Realism”: what a famous painting of a pipe reveals about our scientific models
General Semantics
the spiritual aspects of the Getting Things Done productivity system
heraldic self-expression as a form of identity construction
dissociative identity disorder and what it reveals about the self
the nature of ecosystems, broadly construed
psychomagical practices from the vantage of both participation and skepticism
reflections on music festivals as modern rites of passage, informed by firsthand experience across multiple countries; and a comparative look at cultural funding ecosystems in Europe and America, including efforts to support German-speaking cultural influencers and build bridges across memeplexes through targeted philanthropy
insights from the preservationist history of gaming and the technical work of porting ROM randomizers to hardware platforms
“Manifesto for a New Culture”
“Creating Resilience and Connection in the Age of Overwhelm”
the use of ethnographic interviews in ethnomusicology and their incorporation into a sound installation
Proposed workshops
secular meditation practices
The Yin and Yang of Partner Dance
karaoke
discussions that follow what is “alive in the moment,” without a fixed agenda
the aesthetics of renju, a competitive variant of gomoku, as a model for how constraints can produce new depths
We’ve got attendees mentoring youth in robotics, writing books on trauma therapy, building validator infrastructure in blockchain ecosystems, and working in underground software communities, among many other things. I’m excited by how it’s shaping up!
-Matt A