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Dec 5, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Alex Rossen |Gregory Laski |Josephine Houman |Miranda Young

Joint Landscape (15-9-1546) | Shen Zhou / Public DomainIf you or someone you know is experiencing symptoms of a negative outlook on humanity, then David E. Cooper’s Pessimism, Quietism, and Nature as Refuge (Agenda Publishing, 2024) might be just the book for you. Cooper’s “negative judgement on the moral and spiritual failings of humankind” focuses readers’ attention on our species’ fundamental and inalienable propensity for envy, anger, egoism, insatiable greed, and deceit.

Sep 20, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Emma Minor |Josephine Houman |Chloe Cheimets |Miranda Young

The Circus | Ollyy / Shutterstock The Material opens with a classroom of aspiring comedians workshopping their latest creations: “On Wednesdays, three of them had to perform, in turn, a four-to-six-minute routine that the whole class then proceeded to rip apart, joke by joke, beat by beat, until there wasn’t anything left and the budding comedians went home to consider other possible career paths.” This scene is hilariously reminiscent of budding writers sharing their work for the first time,...

Jun 3, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Gregory Laski |Josephine Houman |Abby Merrick |Miranda Young

“Head of a Fury” (ca. 1750–1800) | Unknown artist / Cooper Hewitt / Public domainIn Elizabeth Flock’s new book, the Furies—female agents of revenge in Greek tragedy—are alive and well in our world today. Published earlier this year, The Furies: Women, Vengeance, and Justice (Harper, 2024) opens with a powerfully personal origin story. Flock recounts that, while on a summer trip to Rome when she was 21, a tour guide raped her.

May 29, 2023 | themusic.com.au | Miranda Young

More Olivia Newton-John Chapter 8Let’s Get Physical‘Newton-John thrusted into the ’80s (literally) with her steamy workout anthem ‘Physical’ [and its] music video’s homosexual innuendoes. Triggered by her Grease character’s transformation from sweet to sexy, Newton-John used the movie’s momentum to change her own image’. Never miss a story! Subscribe to our daily newsletter Olivia has been unmasked here as a genius navigator of change.