New Now: a programme of online talks seeks to find answers to the dilemmas of our rapidly-changing world – The Calvert Journal

How can we learn to comprehend and relate to shifts of our changing contemporary world? Online platform and discussion forum NEW NOW is launching this weekend with a programme of expert bi-monthly talks, with panellists including philosophers, artists, activists, and researchers.

The platforms inaugural event, Neomythologies and the disintegration of reality, will go live on 18 September at 6pm BST. Viewers can join philosophers Federico Campagna and Reza Negasterani, as they talk to Sarah Shin, co-founder of feminist publishing house Silver Press on how revisiting myths can help humanity adapt to climate change and promote gender equality.

Organised by St Petersburgs The Manege Central Exhibition Hall, the platform will stream events online for free in English and Russian. Prior to each talk, the platform will also publish a curated list of suggested readings.

What drives the programme is the absolute uniqueness of the present moment. Humanity as a whole is facing the necessity to analyse its history and where it has led us, curator Anna Kirikova told The Calvert Journal. As American writer William Gibson famously said back in the 1990s: The Future is already here. It is just not evenly distributed. The NEW NOW is one of the means to put the unevenly distributed pieces together, and allow us to accept challenges and risks, get insights into opportunities, and indeed take a better control of our own fate and shared future.

While details on future talks are still to be announced, the programme promises discussions on mental health, environmentalism, transhumanism, and the idea of post-truth.

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New Now: a programme of online talks seeks to find answers to the dilemmas of our rapidly-changing world - The Calvert Journal