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Archetypes, Algorithms and AI: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age
March 16, 2024 @ 10:00 am - 3:00 pm PDT
Describing the backlash to the industrialized way of life in the nineteen sixties and seventies, Theodore Roszak coined the term “counter-culture.” He argued the essential focus of this movement was the growth of a world-altering technocracy.
This workshop will explore the idea that a new counter-culture, more robust and enduring than its predecessor, may be arising in response to an even more encompassing post-industrial technocracy. In seminar format, utilizing writing exercises and group discussion, we will evaluate compensatory ideas and perspectives generated by our current immersion in the technosphere and consider individual calling and purpose in light of these themes.
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GLEN SLATER, PH.D., was born and raised in Australia. He moved to the United States in 1992 to study Jungian psychology. He has degrees in Religious Studies and Clinical Psychology and has taught for over 25 years at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California, where he is Co-Chair of the Jungian and Archetypal Studies Program. He has written extensively for Jungian publications and edited the third volume of James Hillman’s Uniform Edition, Senex and Puer, as well as the essay collection, Varieties of Mythic Experience. He writes on Jung and film, the psychology of religion, and depth psychology and technology. His long-awaited book, Jung vs. Borg: Finding the Deeply Human in a Posthuman Age, will be published in January 2024.
