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Thought Club is Democracy Creative’s weekly in-person discussion group. Each meeting starts with a 5-20 minute conversation starter from someone on a topic they're interested in. Then we allow the discussion to flow freely in any direction. Every Thursday, 6pm, @ Democracy Creative in The Soda Plant, Burlington, VT. Join Signal >>>
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tevan@democracycreative.com
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DATEPRESENTER / CONVERSATION STARTER
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February 9, 2023
Norman Fischer — My revisions of marxist political and art theory












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February 16, 2023
Barbie Alsop — Floods & Earthquakes: Two trillion dollar disasters likely to occur in the next 30 years
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February 23, 2023Request To Present >>>
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March 2, 2023Request To Present >>>
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March 9, 2023Request To Present >>>
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March 16, 2023Request To Present >>>
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PAST MEETINGS
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February 2, 2023
Aspen Overy — A new era of american politics: guns, fascism, and community self-defense
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January 26, 2023
Zach Bennett — Energy Regimes: The Political Ecology of Fuel
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January 19, 2023Lydia Diamond — Generational Racial Love (MLK pt. II)
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January 12, 2023Lydia Diamond — Generational Racial Hatred (MLK pt. I)
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January 5, 2023Tevan — Ivan Illich and his idea of “Conviviality”
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December 22, 2022Stephen R — Collapse (Civilizational)
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December 15, 2022Barbara Shaw-Dorso — Restorative Practices
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December 1, 2022Amber — The imperfect automata of the state
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December 8, 2022Emily R — Social media and its impacts
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November 24, 2022No meeting (Thanksgiving day)
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November 17, 2022Aspen — Systems, cybernetics, & Salvador Allende
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November 10, 2022Utopia conversation (Cheesecake thoughtclub)
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November 3, 2022
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October 27, 2022
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October 20, 2022
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October 13, 2022
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October 6, 2022No meeting this week
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September 29, 2022
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September 22, 2022Geoff's Presentation
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September 15, 2022
Chris Kozjar — Activiating Public Space: The Art of Interaction
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September 8, 2022
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September 1, 2022
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August 25, 2022
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August 18, 2022Artificial Intelligence / DALL-E / Open AI
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August 11, 2022Liz — presentation of Citizens Assemblies
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August 4, 2022
Andrew — Bitcoin as a decentralized alternative to U.S. petrodollar
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July 28, 2022Tevan — Jacques Ellul (+AI)
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July 21, 2022?
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July 14, 2022Michael W
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July 7, 2022Dan
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