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Hat Sessions
Hat Sessions invite you inside the minds of bold thinkers - intimate talks where science, politics, philosophy, and the arts collide.
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The Geoengineering Gamble
Adrienne Buller
The Future of the Tech Crisis
Cory Doctorow
The Science of Creativity
Sheila Atim
The Future of the Left
Zarah Sultana
In Defence of Democracy
Michael Ignatieff, Oli Dugmore
The Thoughts Computers Can't Think
Alison Gopnik, Simon Baron-Cohen, Maria Balaska
The Age of Assassination
Robert Johnson, David Whetham, Sophie Duroy, Angie Hobbs
The Rise of Eco-Fascism
Adrienne Buller, Richard Seymour, Lukas Slothuus
The Future of God and Government
Nick Spencer, James Orr, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Mary Ann Sieghart
Philosophy of the Senses: Our Inner Worlds
Barry C. Smith
Liberal Fascisms: Half-Lies and Double-Truths
Slavoj Žižek
Mysticism, Openness, and the World Beyond Reality
Hilary Lawson, Simon Critchley, Shahidha Bari
The Weaponisation of the Algorithm
Guy Standing, Sylvie Delacroix, Shini Somara
