Thu Oct 22 · 7:00pm
Recovering from Cultural Anesthesia & Returning to the Senses
Piers Kaniuka, who has worked with addicts for over thirty years, and Michael R. Spicher, a philosopher of aesthetics, discuss “cultural anesthesia,” a numbing of feeling “we drift into gradually through routine, distraction, efficiency, and environments that ask very little of our attention.” Kaniuka cofounded and directs Maine Recovery Collective, a residential treatment program; Spicher founded the Aesthetics Research Lab in 2016.