SCN: On the Religion of Silicon Valley...

[Doug Schuler]

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                On the Religion of Silicon Valley...

     (if religion is held to be a set of mostly unconscious, 
                  commonly held, collective beliefs)


                    Wednesday April 25, 2001  
                        6:30 - 7:30 PM
                        Lecture Hall 3
                  The Evergreen State College
                         Olympia, WA

On April 25 , 6:30 - 7:30 p.m., Paulina Borsook, author of
"Cyberselfish/A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture
of High-Tech" (reviews at www.cyberselfish.com), a provocative, gonzo
tourguide to the subculture of Silicon Valley, will present at The
Evergreen State College. An investigation into the strange land of
Technolibertarianism, will form the basis of a discussion about the
influence of, "para/psuedo/crypto 'biological' thinking", pervading
high-tech discourse on technology, economics and life.

  * Why has cryptography been an important focus for both the US 
    government and high-tech communities in recent years?

  * What social values are at stake given the exceedingly complex 
    (and troubling) dilemma of philanthropy and high-tech?

Paulina Borsook, a regular commentator for NPR, was a contributing
writer at "Wired" during the magazine's early glory years.  Her
fiction, essays, humor pieces, and journalism on technology and culture
have appeared in places such as "The New York Times", "Newsweek",
"Mother Jones", salon.com, msnbc.com, feed.com, and suck.com. Her work
has also been anthologized widely.

Borsook holds an BA degree from UC-Berkeley in psycholinguistics with a
minor in philosophy, and an MFA from Columbia University. She also
studied poetry with Kenneth Rexroth, and her first published short
story, "Virtual Romance", was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. She has
lectured at Yale, Brown, Stanford, and the University of Washington.

Links to Borsook's writing, and other material written about her, can
be found on the Unofficial Paulina Borsook Home Fan Web Page:
www.transaction.net/people/paulina.html.

The Plato Lecture series is made possible by royalties from Evergreen
student and faculty software development.  This lecture is sponsored by
the "Community Information Systems" program at TESC.

For more information on this program or the lecture, please contact
Doug Schuler at 206.634.0752 or, via e-mail at dschuler at evergreen.edu.



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