Tag: campfire learn together
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Campfire Learn Together: Unlearning Toward Hope with Jason Arday
“What we are bereft of is care.” For our Sunday, August 30, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we are mourning and celebrating Professor Jason Arday with two of his own talks — one on neurodiversity, race, and belonging, and one on what happens to a good word after an institution gets hold of it. We are…
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Campfire Learn Together: Seated Tai Chi, Transformative Somatic Practices, and Bodily Survival Knowledge
For our Sunday, August 23, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are not just watching. We are moving. This session is a practice, a reading, and an argument, in that order. We start with a twenty-three-minute seated tai chi and qigong class. We talk about Nick Walker’s work on transformative somatic…
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Campfire Learn Together: Head, Heart, and Hands at the End of the World
For our Sunday, August 16, 2026 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing two videos about the same school and the same argument: a half-hour documentary about the Bildung Climate School in Rotterdam, and a Q&A with its founder, Dr. Virginie Servant-Miklos, hosted by our partners at the Human…
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Campfire Learn Together: Code for the People
For our Sunday, August 9, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Code for the People, Bao Nguyen’s documentary about open source, the open web, and the people who keep both from closing. This one is personal. I helped start WordPress and Automattic, which appear throughout the film — and the philosophy, processes,…
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Campfire Learn Together: The Existential Movement — Bringing Wisdom to a Turbulent World
“There is a real problem in the way we have created the human environment as well as what we’ve done to the physical environment.” — Existential Movement — Bringing Wisdom to a Turbulent World, Emmy’s Existential Zone For our Sunday, July 26 at 10AM CT, 4PM UK Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing…
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Campfire Munch Together: Why Don’t Fascists Eat Vegetables?
Some watch-alongs are a snack. This one is a whole pantry. The Leftist Cooks spent seven months and made a video essay nearly six hours long, and we’re going to sit with all of it in one long, gentle marathon. Bring your samefoods and your safe foods, settle your bodymind in, and let a pair…
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Campfire Learn Together: The Mycelial Worldview Is Punk
For our July 12 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing two short films about fungi, mycelial networks, and the people who think alongside them — a six-minute overture and a thirty-five-minute documentary, forty-one minutes in all. Together they carry an argument we already live by: that the way fungi grow, decompose, connect, and…
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Campfire Learn Together: Two Masters at Two Pianos
For our July 5, 2026, Campfire Learn Together, we are watching two of the greatest pianists in the history of Jazz sit at two enormous grand pianos and talk about the ones who came before them.
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Campfire Learn Together: The Dive and the Water — Dolphining, Attachment Theory, and the Broken-Systems Frame
For our Sunday, June 28, 2026 Campfire Learn Together, we’re putting two of our glossary entries in the same room and watching what happens. Dolphining is about how a mind moves through a conversation. Attachment Theory — read through a neurodivergent lens — is about how a mind forms safety with other people. On the…
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Campfire Learn Together: Free for All — A People’s History of the Public Library
For our June 14, 2026, Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Free for All: The Public Library — Dawn Logsdon’s documentary tracing how the most trusted, least controversial institution in American life became a battleground in the culture wars, and how it got built in the first place. Not by one hero. By…
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Campfire Learn Together: Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real
For our June 7 2026, Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Chris McNutt’s “Teaching in the Wreckage of the Real” — a narration drawn from the forthcoming Human Restoration Project Primer, on what it means to teach truth in a world engineered to make truth feel unknowable.
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Campfire Learn Together: Lines of Flight in the Classroom
For our May 31 Campfire Learn Together, we are watching and discussing Ian Buchanan’s “Lines of Flight in the Classroom” — a lecture applying Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s concept of lines of flight to the classroom as a social assemblage.