I AM CURIOUS: What does it mean to be critical?

Wednesday, 13th of March we’re hosting a talk/conversation about what it means to be critical. Does it just mean being negative? Isn't it just overthinking? Why even do it?  What on earth is cultural critique? What is critical thinking? These questions and many more are going to be up for discussion. 

with two critical types: Macon Holt of Passive-Aggressive Journal and Anna Ullman, formerly of Information.

doors open 17.30

talk starts at 18.00

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The second of a series of talks hosted at the bookstore, not a how-to, but more of an open forum on various subjects of interest with a solid but soft core: libertas philosophandi and a genuine curiosity about others, their practices, their ways of doing, what we can do together and learn from each other.

It’s a serious series, in the only way seriousness can be approached: lightly.

“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience. Because if you cannot exercise this kind of choice in adult life, you will be totally hosed. Think of the old cliché about “the mind being an excellent servant but a terrible master.” D.F.W