Performances
Selected audio and video clips:
Sun Valley Writer's Conference
August 24, 2008
Sun Valley, Idaho
Proceedings of the First Meeting of the World Aphorism Organization
March 14, 2008
Goodenough College, London, under the sponsorship of the University of London’s Institute of Philosophy
Waterstone’s Bookshop, Gower Street, London
March 13, 2008
Excerpts from a juggling aphorist...
2007
The Foreign Policy Association
Oct. 10, 2007
The Lester S. Morse, Jr. Lecture: Aphorisms and Diplomacy
LIVE from the NYPL
Oct. 9, 2007
Juggling Aphorisms (edited)
2006
The Falmouth Festival of Literature & Arts
Oct. 7, 2006
How Benjamin Franklin begat Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce...
The Ilkley Literature Festival
Oct. 1, 2006
Hear about aphorists Stanislaw Jerzy Lec and Nicolas Chamfort
Ways With Words Festival, Dartington Hall
July 8, 2006
Listen to some of the tricky questions from the audience and my attempted answers
Swindon Festival of Literature
May 2, 2006
See the Five Laws of the Aphorism explained — while juggling!
2002
The Institute of Contemporary Arts
Feb. 26, 2002
A panel discussion focused on some of the themes addressed in my earlier book The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses.
The Foreign Policy Association
Oct. 10, 2007
An address to the Foreign Policy Association in the Lester S. Morse, Jr. Lecture on the topic: Aphorisms and Diplomacy.
The Foreign Policy Association (FPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to inspiring the American public to learn more about the world.
Founded in 1918, the FPA provides independent publications, programs and forums to increase public awareness of, and foster popular participation in, matters relating to those policy issues.
See the performance on the FPA web site (opens in a new window).
