The Shift: The Techno-Human Condition

"Let's take seriously for a moment the idea that an utterly unprecedented shift is underway, one that recasts not just our behaviors but also our core assumptions," says Sven Birkerts, director of the Bennington College Writing Seminars. While science policy expert Dan Sarewitz wonders, "How can human intentionality and rationality—those paragons of the Enlightenment project—be meaningfully expressed when accelerating technological evolution and complexity make a mockery of conventional notions of comprehensibility?" Please join Birkerts and Sarewitz as they consider how humans are transforming cognitively, imaginatively, socially, even physically, as technology wraps, embeds, and intersects with our physical and conscious worlds.