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EDC Book Club: Against the Vortex by Anthony Galluzzo
April 30 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
Join the EDC Book Club later this month for a discussion of Anthony Galluzzo’s new book, Against the Vortex: Zardoz and Degrowth Utopias in the Seventies and Today. Author Anthony Galluzzo will be joining us for the discussion of this short and intriguing book, together with EDC curators Mike Degani and Anand Pandian.
“Alongside scientific knowledge and collective effort, building a degrowth ecological society will require a different set of stories and myths than the big and fast Promethean fables we’re accustomed to. Using Boorman’s Zardoz as a tool, Against The Vortex unearths the artistic and intellectual output of a decelerationist 1970s, with an eye toward imagining a very different sort of future.”
Tuesday, April 30th, 2024
1-2 PM ET
EDC Book Club Video Room
Access the room by logging into your EDC account, or by using access code 7eee42
For those who can’t join live that day, please share your thoughts via the discussion thread about the book in the EDC Book Club group. We’ll continue the conversation there.
You can get an e-book or print edition of Against the Vortex via online retailers or directly from publisher CollectiveInk here:
https://www.collectiveinkbooks.com/zer0-books/our-books/against-vortex-zardoz-degrowth-utopias
Galluzzo is thinking with the 1974 science fiction film Zardoz, directed by John Boorman, which you can watch online via the Internet Archive here:
https://archive.org/details/zardoz-1974_202201
Stay tuned for more book conversations each month, and please join the EDC Book Club to take part in our discussions and share your favorite reads!
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This conversation was pure fire! Along with the recording, I wish we could compile the dozens of great references the three of you strung together in just an hour.
It was a great chat, thanks for being there!