THIS FRIDAY (4/11) at 3:30pm in Ruane 105, the Humanities Forum will host Tara Isabella Burton, writer and Mercatus Fellow at George Mason University. In this talk, Burton will consider our networked algorithmic age, and the selves and identities we create in it, as downstream of a fundamentally modern (and deeply magical) set of religious ideas.
In this talk, Tara Isabella Burton will consider at our networked algorithmic age, and the selves and identities we create in it, as downstream of a fundamentally modern (and deeply magical) set of religious ideas about the self, its freedom from embodiment, and its authority to self-divinize through both scientific knowledge and internal gnosis.
Tara Isabella Burton is the author of Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World and Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from Da Vinci to the Kardashians, as well as the novels Social Creature, The World Cannot Give, and Here in Avalon. She is a Lecturer at the Catholic University and a Mercatus Fellow at George Mason University, and is currently working on a book about magic and modernity.
