D. Paul Schafer on Shifting to the Cultural Age and his book, The Great Cultural Awakening
Description
To learn more, please visit the World Culture Project and read about D. Paul Schafer's most recent book, The Great Cultural Awakening
Show Notes:
0:00 Schafer quotes Gurte: “live in the whole , the good and the beautiful”
2:15 background
7:50 Ontario Arts Council
8:15 Arts Administration and Cultural Policy graduate program at York University
8:45 freelancer-UNESCO, Canadian Dep’t of External Affairs
9:25 publications predicated on argument that it’s time to shift from Economic Age to Cultural Age
9:50 creation of the World Culture Project
16:40 Culture: Beacon of the Future (1998)
18:10 AI impact
18:45 Geoffrey Hinton’s concerns over AI
20:50 Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age (2008)
24:25 The World as Culture: Cultivation of the Soul to the Cosmic Whole (2022)
30:05 The Great Cultural Awakening: Key to an Equitable, Sustainable and Harmonious Age (2024)
42:30 future leaders should have backgrounds in the arts and culture sector
46:50 Feedback received about The Great Cultural Awakening
48:00 excerpt from The Great Cultural Awakening’s chapter titled Tale of Two Ages that references Charles Dickens’ Tale of Two Cities
53:00 the power of art to address social injustice
1:00:00 definition of justice
1:02:20 Cultural Historian Johan Huizinga, author of The Waning of the Middle Ages
1:04:20 legacy
1:06:40 future projects
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