Event box

Kairos: Readings and Discussions with Denis Sweet

Kairos: Readings and Discussions with Denis Sweet In-Person

image of earth and people with Kairos Society written acrossThe library is sponsoring a series of discussions with Denis Sweet, a former teacher at Bates College, investigating our current moment by making use of contemporary and classic writings in literature, social criticism, biology and philosophy. Meetings will be Tuesday mornings at 10am in the library's Howard Room. The September 24 and November 12 meetings will be held in the library's Bass Room.

Kairos: a time for profound realignment of fundamental principles and for parting from collective illusions. How should we live our life as individuals - and as a species- in a conscientious way that responds to the time that we live in now? The course is structured in modules, and the second module is Society. The works that will be covered in the module are listed below. 

  • Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics (2017)
    • Describes a regime of technological domination that has discovered the productive force of the psyche - thus representing a fundamental expansion of capitalist control. 
  • Byung-Chul Han, Non-Things (2022)
    • The terrestrial order is giving way to digital order, the world of things is being replaced by a world of non-things.
  • Michael Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island (2005)
    • What is the world that lies ahead for us? The bad boy of contemporary French literature peels away the dreams invested in technologies of control.  

This module will meet once a week from September to December. To facilitate discussion, the number of participants is limited to twelve. Registration can be done through the library's online calendar. For more information, please email Assistant Director Kayleigh Thomas at kayleigh.thomas@bhpl.net or call 374-5515. 

Dates & Times:
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, September 10, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, September 17, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, September 24, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, October 1, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, October 8, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, October 15, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, October 22, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, October 29, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, November 5, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, November 12, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, November 19, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, November 26, 2024
10:00am - 12:00pm, Tuesday, December 3, 2024
Time Zone:
Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
Location:
Howard Room
Audience:
  General/Adult  
Categories:
  Discussion Group  

Registration is required. There is 1 seat available.

Event Organizer

Profile photo of Kayleigh Thomas
Kayleigh Thomas

Assistant Director
kayleigh.thomas[at]bhpl.net
(207) 374-5515 x11.