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February 4, 2015
7:30 - 9:30
Encounters with Reality
When I was fourteen, my family went on a Caribbean cruise. I have always been allergic to the idea of going somewhere for the explicit…
Hidden Fears and Secret Dreams
This is the second column in a four-part series by B.D. McClay on speculative fiction.
Turbo America
It was a crisp March morning in Austin, and just outside the Texas Capitol a swarm of protesters large enough to fill a sports arena…
A panel discussion presented by The Point at n+1 headquarters in Brooklyn.
Nearly every day we are told that our privacy is under some fresh attack. But are we entering a new and treacherous phase in our relationship with privacy, or should we welcome, as some have recommended, a new “era of transparency?” Join ACLU attorney (and Edward Snowden’s lawyer) Ben Wizner, philosopher Michael P. Lynch, the Nation’s Sarah Leonard, the Guardian Project’s Harlo Holmes and artist Ingrid Burrington for a discussion of such questions in connection with The Point’s Issue 9 symposium, What is Privacy For? RSVP & more info here.