New Website, 13 January 2009
We are in the process of building a new website, one that is easier for us to manage and easier for you to find things, we hope. So, if you wish to start using it as a place to leave comments the address is: http://rogerscruton.wordpress.com/.
We will eventually use the domain name 'rogerscruton.com' once we have got it going properly.
The most recent Sunday Times article (11/1/09) about singing, is on the new site.
Meanwhile thank you for your comments, they are very helpful and encouraging, and replies will follow as soon as there is a moment.
Thanks, Sophie and Roger
January 13, 2009
November 17, 2008
Public Speaking Engagements
Public Engagements,
November 28, 2008. Conference begins at 10.30am on the theme of 'God and Good' organized at Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London W8 5HQ. Day long program. I speak at 5pm on 'Goodness and Incarnation'.
To register please e-mail: f.ellis (at) heythrop.ac.uk. Attendance fee of £20 (£5 concessions) is payable and lunch and refreshments are included.
November 28, 2008. Conference begins at 10.30am on the theme of 'God and Good' organized at Heythrop College, Kensington Square, London W8 5HQ. Day long program. I speak at 5pm on 'Goodness and Incarnation'.
To register please e-mail: f.ellis (at) heythrop.ac.uk. Attendance fee of £20 (£5 concessions) is payable and lunch and refreshments are included.
Can virtual life take over from real life?
The Sunday Times, 16th November 2008
The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan famously said. And by changing the message we change ourselves. Never has this observation been so relevant as it is today, when many people spend their days at the computer, conducting friendships through Facebook and MySpace, posting videos on their websites, going into real society shielded by an iPod, or simply sending their avatar across the Grid in Second Life, looking for virtual relationships, virtual excitement and even virtual sex. Some welcome this, as a form of liberation. Shy people used to go trembling into society, hand in mouth; now they can go boldly into virtual society, hand on mouse.
Read on in the Sunday Times Magazine, November 16th, 2008
The medium is the message, Marshall McLuhan famously said. And by changing the message we change ourselves. Never has this observation been so relevant as it is today, when many people spend their days at the computer, conducting friendships through Facebook and MySpace, posting videos on their websites, going into real society shielded by an iPod, or simply sending their avatar across the Grid in Second Life, looking for virtual relationships, virtual excitement and even virtual sex. Some welcome this, as a form of liberation. Shy people used to go trembling into society, hand in mouth; now they can go boldly into virtual society, hand on mouse.
Read on in the Sunday Times Magazine, November 16th, 2008
November 12, 2008
Past Public Engagements
Past Public Engagements,
November 12th, 2008 at 6pm: lecture on 'The Defence of the West and how to respond to the Islamist challenge' at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington D.C. Venue: The Madison Hotel, 1177 15th Street NW. Washington, DC.
October 31st, 2008 at 11 am: Newman Lecture organized by The Institute for the Psychological Sciences where I am also currently teaching. The theme is 'Hiding Behind the Screen: The Philosophy of Virtual Reality'. The event is at 801 G Street N W, Washington, D.C. Webcast available soon.
October 21st, 2008 6.00 pm until 7.30 pm at University of Texas, Austin organized by the Program in Western Civilization. The lecture is entitled 'The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat'.
October 22nd, 2008, 1.30 - 2.30 friends have arranged a lunchtime discussion on the same theme in San Antonio: Trinity University, Storch Memorial Building 103. This gives me a chance to meet Nikos Salingaros a colleague with whom I correspond and whose work has influenced my own, but whom I have never met. Thank you to Professor Robert Koons and supporters in San Antonio for arranging all this.
November 12th, 2008 at 6pm: lecture on 'The Defence of the West and how to respond to the Islamist challenge' at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington D.C. Venue: The Madison Hotel, 1177 15th Street NW. Washington, DC.
October 31st, 2008 at 11 am: Newman Lecture organized by The Institute for the Psychological Sciences where I am also currently teaching. The theme is 'Hiding Behind the Screen: The Philosophy of Virtual Reality'. The event is at 801 G Street N W, Washington, D.C. Webcast available soon.
October 21st, 2008 6.00 pm until 7.30 pm at University of Texas, Austin organized by the Program in Western Civilization. The lecture is entitled 'The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat'.
October 22nd, 2008, 1.30 - 2.30 friends have arranged a lunchtime discussion on the same theme in San Antonio: Trinity University, Storch Memorial Building 103. This gives me a chance to meet Nikos Salingaros a colleague with whom I correspond and whose work has influenced my own, but whom I have never met. Thank you to Professor Robert Koons and supporters in San Antonio for arranging all this.
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