BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Meetup//Meetup Calendar 1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH NAME:Scott & Dave’s High Ontology X-WR-CALNAME:Scott & Dave’s High Ontology BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Vancouver TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo-outlook/America/Vancouver X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Vancouver BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_315129605@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261021T010641Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261029T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261029T200000 SUMMARY:Modernism\; or\, the Cultural Logic of Modernization. DESCRIPTION:Scott & Dave’s High Ontology\n**What is Modernism?**\n\n[TBP ]\n\n**METHOD**\n\n* Watch this week’s episode\, located [HERE](https:// www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhdmiJc-GBYWUxDkoBbekpSMoSii_6Rgn).\n* As a lways\, summaries\, notes\, event chatlogs\, episode transcripts\, timelin es\, tables\, observations\, and downloadable PDFs for all the episodes we cover can be found here: [THORR (The High Ontology Reading Room)](https:/ /high-ontology.notion.site/?pvs=4)\n\n**ABOUT PROFESSOR TAUBENECK**\n\nPro fessor Taubeneck is professor of German and Philosophy at UBC\, first [tra nslator](https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Philosophical-Sciences-Critic al-Writings/dp/0826403409/) of Hegel’s *Encyclopedia* into English\, and SADHO CΦO. Most impressively\, he has also been wrestling with the core texts of 20-cent. phenomenology and existentialism for over 30 years\, and has worked and collaborated with Gadamer\, Derrida\, and Rorty.\n\nView a ll of our coming episodes [here](https://www.meetup.com/scott-and-daves-hi gh-ontology/). URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/events/ 315129605/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260606T044749Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260606T044749Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_316912331@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261021T010641Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261029T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261029T200000 SUMMARY:From Homer to the Final Solution — Next Part DESCRIPTION:Scott & Dave’s High Ontology\n**A Festive Three-Part Autumn Miniseries**\n\nHuman world-making was born in a peculiar shape that deter mined a particular path in Western philosophy\, drawing a jagged line from Thales to its Final Solution.\n\nIn this short three-part cool-cave Autum n-vacation miniseries\, we will take one particular but near-optimal journ ey from the very birth of philosophical thinking up to the Final Solution of the problem that was born alongside it.\n\nWe will do a kind of **Hegel ian development journalism**: follow one particular zig-zagging path throu gh the history of philosophy\, watching how each new solution generates it s own disappointment—and how that disappointment forces the next move.\n \nOur journey:\n\n**Part I — The Birth of Adequate Explanation**\n\n1. C haos the All-Father — *Ungrund*\, non-explanation\n2. Homer — Personal \, intentional\, divine-agent explanation\n3. Thales — Water: the One be neath the Many\n4. Anaximander — The *apeiron*: indeterminate primordial stuff\n5. Anaximenes — Air: a mechanism for generating the Many\n6. Pyt hagoras — Number\, ratio\, form\, and intelligible structure\n7. Parmeni des — Being\, identity\, and necessity\n8. Anaxagoras — Mixture\, diff erentiation\, and *Nous*\n9. Aristotle — Matter\, form\, substance\, and causes\n\n**Part II — The Crisis of Knowing**\n\n1. Descartes → Locke → Leibniz → Hume\n\n**Part III — The Final Solution**\n\n* Kant → DIMP/AG\n\n**The Best Way is also the Easiest**\n\nUnderstanding the biog raphy of philosophy is possible: The Pre-Socratics solved each disappointm ent in the most childish way possible—by fiat. We know what our model ne eds\, so we just put it there. *Let there be …* and it exists.\n\nYet th e embarrassingly obvious wish-fulfillment nature of these raw\, near-mythi cal answers yields some of the deepest information of all: **the metaphors secretly driving our theorizing over time.**\n\nAnd when we finally arriv e at Kant\, we'll see those same baby-level moves\, assumptions\, and expe ctations playing out *again*. Only now we'll understand what the problem w as all along—and what makes its Final Solution possible.\n\n**A new kind of SADHO video program**\n\nThis will depart from our normal format\, who se two pillars of the examined life in American culture have been BBC and PBS.\n\nBut don't worry! We'll have a new genus of videos this time. In fa ct\, the videos will be morphing their kind due to a Copernican-like confo rmity force: **the conformity of video to topic**.\n\nWe'll use brief\, im mensely insightful clips—astonishing pieces of historical footage\, nake d attempts at brainwashing\, and brilliantly liberating scenes from some o f the best films ever made.\n\nThink of them as engine-cutaway-view demons tration tapes. None will ever be longer than **6.66 minutes**.\n\nOne part icular path\, out of a countable infinity of possible paths. But once you' ve journeyed through it\, you'll feel its necessity.\n\n**METHOD**\n\n* Wa tch this week’s chillingly deep video clips\, located [*will post within 24 hours*].\n* As always\, summaries\, notes\, event chatlogs\, episode t ranscripts\, timelines\, tables\, observations\, and downloadable PDFs for all the episodes we cover can be found here: [THORR (The High Ontology Re ading Room)](https://high-ontology.notion.site/?pvs=4)\n\n**ABOUT PROFESSO R TAUBENECK**\n\nProfessor Taubeneck is professor of German and Philosophy at UBC\, first [translator](https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Philosoph ical-Sciences-Critical-Writings/dp/0826403409/) of Hegel’s *Encyclopedia * into English\, and SADHO CΦO. Most impressively\, he has also been wres tling with the core texts of 20-cent. phenomenology and existentialism for over 30 years\, and has worked and collaborated with Gadamer\, Derrida\, and Rorty.\n\nView all of our coming episodes [here](https://www.meetup.co m/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/). URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/events/ 316912331/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20261009T165351Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261009T165351Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_315129607@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261021T010641Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261112T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261112T190000 SUMMARY:Modernism\; or\, the Cultural Logic of Modernization. DESCRIPTION:Scott & Dave’s High Ontology\n**What is Modernism?**\n\n[TBP ]\n\n**METHOD**\n\n* Watch this week’s episode\, located [HERE](https:// www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhdmiJc-GBYWUxDkoBbekpSMoSii_6Rgn).\n* As a lways\, summaries\, notes\, event chatlogs\, episode transcripts\, timelin es\, tables\, observations\, and downloadable PDFs for all the episodes we cover can be found here: [THORR (The High Ontology Reading Room)](https:/ /high-ontology.notion.site/?pvs=4)\n\n**ABOUT PROFESSOR TAUBENECK**\n\nPro fessor Taubeneck is professor of German and Philosophy at UBC\, first [tra nslator](https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Philosophical-Sciences-Critic al-Writings/dp/0826403409/) of Hegel’s *Encyclopedia* into English\, and SADHO CΦO. Most impressively\, he has also been wrestling with the core texts of 20-cent. phenomenology and existentialism for over 30 years\, and has worked and collaborated with Gadamer\, Derrida\, and Rorty.\n\nView a ll of our coming episodes [here](https://www.meetup.com/scott-and-daves-hi gh-ontology/). URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/events/ 315129607/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20260606T044751Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260606T044751Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_316917568@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261021T010641Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261112T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261112T190000 SUMMARY:From Homer to the Final Solution — Next Part DESCRIPTION:Scott & Dave’s High Ontology\n**A Festive Three-Part Autumn Miniseries**\n\nHuman world-making was born in a peculiar shape that deter mined a particular path in Western philosophy\, drawing a jagged line from Thales to its Final Solution.\n\nIn this short three-part cool-cave Autum n-vacation miniseries\, we will take one particular but near-optimal journ ey from the very birth of philosophical thinking up to the Final Solution of the problem that was born alongside it.\n\nWe will do a kind of **Hegel ian development journalism**: follow one particular zig-zagging path throu gh the history of philosophy\, watching how each new solution generates it s own disappointment—and how that disappointment forces the next move.\n \nOur journey:\n\n**Part I — The Birth of Adequate Explanation**\n\n1. C haos the All-Father — *Ungrund*\, non-explanation\n2. Homer — Personal \, intentional\, divine-agent explanation\n3. Thales — Water: the One be neath the Many\n4. Anaximander — The *apeiron*: indeterminate primordial stuff\n5. Anaximenes — Air: a mechanism for generating the Many\n6. Pyt hagoras — Number\, ratio\, form\, and intelligible structure\n7. Parmeni des — Being\, identity\, and necessity\n8. Anaxagoras — Mixture\, diff erentiation\, and *Nous*\n9. Aristotle — Matter\, form\, substance\, and causes\n\n**Part II — The Crisis of Knowing**\n\n1. Descartes → Locke → Leibniz → Hume\n\n**Part III — The Final Solution**\n\n* Kant → DIMP/AG\n\n**The Best Way is also the Easiest**\n\nUnderstanding the biog raphy of philosophy is possible: The Pre-Socratics solved each disappointm ent in the most childish way possible—by fiat. We know what our model ne eds\, so we just put it there. *Let there be …* and it exists.\n\nYet th e embarrassingly obvious wish-fulfillment nature of these raw\, near-mythi cal answers yields some of the deepest information of all: **the metaphors secretly driving our theorizing over time.**\n\nAnd when we finally arriv e at Kant\, we'll see those same baby-level moves\, assumptions\, and expe ctations playing out *again*. Only now we'll understand what the problem w as all along—and what makes its Final Solution possible.\n\n**A new kind of SADHO video program**\n\nThis will depart from our normal format\, who se two pillars of the examined life in American culture have been BBC and PBS.\n\nBut don't worry! We'll have a new genus of videos this time. In fa ct\, the videos will be morphing their kind due to a Copernican-like confo rmity force: **the conformity of video to topic**.\n\nWe'll use brief\, im mensely insightful clips—astonishing pieces of historical footage\, nake d attempts at brainwashing\, and brilliantly liberating scenes from some o f the best films ever made.\n\nThink of them as engine-cutaway-view demons tration tapes. None will ever be longer than **6.66 minutes**.\n\nOne part icular path\, out of a countable infinity of possible paths. But once you' ve journeyed through it\, you'll feel its necessity.\n\n**METHOD**\n\n* Wa tch this week’s chillingly deep video clips\, located [*will post within 24 hours*].\n* As always\, summaries\, notes\, event chatlogs\, episode t ranscripts\, timelines\, tables\, observations\, and downloadable PDFs for all the episodes we cover can be found here: [THORR (The High Ontology Re ading Room)](https://high-ontology.notion.site/?pvs=4)\n\n**ABOUT PROFESSO R TAUBENECK**\n\nProfessor Taubeneck is professor of German and Philosophy at UBC\, first [translator](https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Philosoph ical-Sciences-Critical-Writings/dp/0826403409/) of Hegel’s *Encyclopedia * into English\, and SADHO CΦO. Most impressively\, he has also been wres tling with the core texts of 20-cent. phenomenology and existentialism for over 30 years\, and has worked and collaborated with Gadamer\, Derrida\, and Rorty.\n\nView all of our coming episodes [here](https://www.meetup.co m/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/). URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/events/ 316917568/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20261009T231553Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261009T231553Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_316917648@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261021T010641Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261126T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261126T190000 SUMMARY:From Homer to the Final Solution — Next Part DESCRIPTION:Scott & Dave’s High Ontology\n**A Festive Three-Part Autumn Miniseries**\n\nHuman world-making was born in a peculiar shape that deter mined a particular path in Western philosophy\, drawing a jagged line from Thales to its Final Solution.\n\nIn this short three-part cool-cave Autum n-vacation miniseries\, we will take one particular but near-optimal journ ey from the very birth of philosophical thinking up to the Final Solution of the problem that was born alongside it.\n\nWe will do a kind of **Hegel ian development journalism**: follow one particular zig-zagging path throu gh the history of philosophy\, watching how each new solution generates it s own disappointment—and how that disappointment forces the next move.\n \nOur journey:\n\n**Part I — The Birth of Adequate Explanation**\n\n1. C haos the All-Father — *Ungrund*\, non-explanation\n2. Homer — Personal \, intentional\, divine-agent explanation\n3. Thales — Water: the One be neath the Many\n4. Anaximander — The *apeiron*: indeterminate primordial stuff\n5. Anaximenes — Air: a mechanism for generating the Many\n6. Pyt hagoras — Number\, ratio\, form\, and intelligible structure\n7. Parmeni des — Being\, identity\, and necessity\n8. Anaxagoras — Mixture\, diff erentiation\, and *Nous*\n9. Aristotle — Matter\, form\, substance\, and causes\n\n**Part II — The Crisis of Knowing**\n\n1. Descartes → Locke → Leibniz → Hume\n\n**Part III — The Final Solution**\n\n* Kant → DIMP/AG\n\n**The Best Way is also the Easiest**\n\nUnderstanding the biog raphy of philosophy is possible: The Pre-Socratics solved each disappointm ent in the most childish way possible—by fiat. We know what our model ne eds\, so we just put it there. *Let there be …* and it exists.\n\nYet th e embarrassingly obvious wish-fulfillment nature of these raw\, near-mythi cal answers yields some of the deepest information of all: **the metaphors secretly driving our theorizing over time.**\n\nAnd when we finally arriv e at Kant\, we'll see those same baby-level moves\, assumptions\, and expe ctations playing out *again*. Only now we'll understand what the problem w as all along—and what makes its Final Solution possible.\n\n**A new kind of SADHO video program**\n\nThis will depart from our normal format\, who se two pillars of the examined life in American culture have been BBC and PBS.\n\nBut don't worry! We'll have a new genus of videos this time. In fa ct\, the videos will be morphing their kind due to a Copernican-like confo rmity force: **the conformity of video to topic**.\n\nWe'll use brief\, im mensely insightful clips—astonishing pieces of historical footage\, nake d attempts at brainwashing\, and brilliantly liberating scenes from some o f the best films ever made.\n\nThink of them as engine-cutaway-view demons tration tapes. None will ever be longer than **6.66 minutes**.\n\nOne part icular path\, out of a countable infinity of possible paths. But once you' ve journeyed through it\, you'll feel its necessity.\n\n**METHOD**\n\n* Wa tch this week’s chillingly deep video clips\, located [*will post within 24 hours*].\n* As always\, summaries\, notes\, event chatlogs\, episode t ranscripts\, timelines\, tables\, observations\, and downloadable PDFs for all the episodes we cover can be found here: [THORR (The High Ontology Re ading Room)](https://high-ontology.notion.site/?pvs=4)\n\n**ABOUT PROFESSO R TAUBENECK**\n\nProfessor Taubeneck is professor of German and Philosophy at UBC\, first [translator](https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Philosoph ical-Sciences-Critical-Writings/dp/0826403409/) of Hegel’s *Encyclopedia * into English\, and SADHO CΦO. Most impressively\, he has also been wres tling with the core texts of 20-cent. phenomenology and existentialism for over 30 years\, and has worked and collaborated with Gadamer\, Derrida\, and Rorty.\n\nView all of our coming episodes [here](https://www.meetup.co m/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/). URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/events/ 316917648/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20261009T231700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261009T231700Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_316983525@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261021T010641Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261210T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261210T190000 SUMMARY:From Homer to the Final Solution — Next Part DESCRIPTION:Scott & Dave’s High Ontology\n**A Festive Three-Part Autumn Miniseries**\n\nHuman world-making was born in a peculiar shape that deter mined a particular path in Western philosophy\, drawing a jagged line from Thales to its Final Solution.\n\nIn this short three-part cool-cave Autum n-vacation miniseries\, we will take one particular but near-optimal journ ey from the very birth of philosophical thinking up to the Final Solution of the problem that was born alongside it.\n\nWe will do a kind of **Hegel ian development journalism**: follow one particular zig-zagging path throu gh the history of philosophy\, watching how each new solution generates it s own disappointment—and how that disappointment forces the next move.\n \nOur journey:\n\n**Part I — The Birth of Adequate Explanation**\n\n1. C haos the All-Father — *Ungrund*\, non-explanation\n2. Homer — Personal \, intentional\, divine-agent explanation\n3. Thales — Water: the One be neath the Many\n4. Anaximander — The *apeiron*: indeterminate primordial stuff\n5. Anaximenes — Air: a mechanism for generating the Many\n6. Pyt hagoras — Number\, ratio\, form\, and intelligible structure\n7. Parmeni des — Being\, identity\, and necessity\n8. Anaxagoras — Mixture\, diff erentiation\, and *Nous*\n9. Aristotle — Matter\, form\, substance\, and causes\n\n**Part II — The Crisis of Knowing**\n\n1. Descartes → Locke → Leibniz → Hume\n\n**Part III — The Final Solution**\n\n* Kant → DIMP/AG\n\n**The Best Way is also the Easiest**\n\nUnderstanding the biog raphy of philosophy is possible: The Pre-Socratics solved each disappointm ent in the most childish way possible—by fiat. We know what our model ne eds\, so we just put it there. *Let there be …* and it exists.\n\nYet th e embarrassingly obvious wish-fulfillment nature of these raw\, near-mythi cal answers yields some of the deepest information of all: **the metaphors secretly driving our theorizing over time.**\n\nAnd when we finally arriv e at Kant\, we'll see those same baby-level moves\, assumptions\, and expe ctations playing out *again*. Only now we'll understand what the problem w as all along—and what makes its Final Solution possible.\n\n**A new kind of SADHO video program**\n\nThis will depart from our normal format\, who se two pillars of the examined life in American culture have been BBC and PBS.\n\nBut don't worry! We'll have a new genus of videos this time. In fa ct\, the videos will be morphing their kind due to a Copernican-like confo rmity force: **the conformity of video to topic**.\n\nWe'll use brief\, im mensely insightful clips—astonishing pieces of historical footage\, nake d attempts at brainwashing\, and brilliantly liberating scenes from some o f the best films ever made.\n\nThink of them as engine-cutaway-view demons tration tapes. None will ever be longer than **6.66 minutes**.\n\nOne part icular path\, out of a countable infinity of possible paths. But once you' ve journeyed through it\, you'll feel its necessity.\n\n**METHOD**\n\n* Wa tch this week’s chillingly deep video clips\, located [*will post within 24 hours*].\n* As always\, summaries\, notes\, event chatlogs\, episode t ranscripts\, timelines\, tables\, observations\, and downloadable PDFs for all the episodes we cover can be found here: [THORR (The High Ontology Re ading Room)](https://high-ontology.notion.site/?pvs=4)\n\n**ABOUT PROFESSO R TAUBENECK**\n\nProfessor Taubeneck is professor of German and Philosophy at UBC\, first [translator](https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Philosoph ical-Sciences-Critical-Writings/dp/0826403409/) of Hegel’s *Encyclopedia * into English\, and SADHO CΦO. Most impressively\, he has also been wres tling with the core texts of 20-cent. phenomenology and existentialism for over 30 years\, and has worked and collaborated with Gadamer\, Derrida\, and Rorty.\n\nView all of our coming episodes [here](https://www.meetup.co m/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/). URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/events/ 316983525/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20261014T220301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T220301Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_316983538@meetup.com SEQUENCE:1 DTSTAMP:20261021T010641Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261224T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20261224T190000 SUMMARY:From Homer to the Final Solution — Next Part DESCRIPTION:Scott & Dave’s High Ontology\n**A Festive Three-Part Autumn Miniseries**\n\nHuman world-making was born in a peculiar shape that deter mined a particular path in Western philosophy\, drawing a jagged line from Thales to its Final Solution.\n\nIn this short three-part cool-cave Autum n-vacation miniseries\, we will take one particular but near-optimal journ ey from the very birth of philosophical thinking up to the Final Solution of the problem that was born alongside it.\n\nWe will do a kind of **Hegel ian development journalism**: follow one particular zig-zagging path throu gh the history of philosophy\, watching how each new solution generates it s own disappointment—and how that disappointment forces the next move.\n \nOur journey:\n\n**Part I — The Birth of Adequate Explanation**\n\n1. C haos the All-Father — *Ungrund*\, non-explanation\n2. Homer — Personal \, intentional\, divine-agent explanation\n3. Thales — Water: the One be neath the Many\n4. Anaximander — The *apeiron*: indeterminate primordial stuff\n5. Anaximenes — Air: a mechanism for generating the Many\n6. Pyt hagoras — Number\, ratio\, form\, and intelligible structure\n7. Parmeni des — Being\, identity\, and necessity\n8. Anaxagoras — Mixture\, diff erentiation\, and *Nous*\n9. Aristotle — Matter\, form\, substance\, and causes\n\n**Part II — The Crisis of Knowing**\n\n1. Descartes → Locke → Leibniz → Hume\n\n**Part III — The Final Solution**\n\n* Kant → DIMP/AG\n\n**The Best Way is also the Easiest**\n\nUnderstanding the biog raphy of philosophy is possible: The Pre-Socratics solved each disappointm ent in the most childish way possible—by fiat. We know what our model ne eds\, so we just put it there. *Let there be …* and it exists.\n\nYet th e embarrassingly obvious wish-fulfillment nature of these raw\, near-mythi cal answers yields some of the deepest information of all: **the metaphors secretly driving our theorizing over time.**\n\nAnd when we finally arriv e at Kant\, we'll see those same baby-level moves\, assumptions\, and expe ctations playing out *again*. Only now we'll understand what the problem w as all along—and what makes its Final Solution possible.\n\n**A new kind of SADHO video program**\n\nThis will depart from our normal format\, who se two pillars of the examined life in American culture have been BBC and PBS.\n\nBut don't worry! We'll have a new genus of videos this time. In fa ct\, the videos will be morphing their kind due to a Copernican-like confo rmity force: **the conformity of video to topic**.\n\nWe'll use brief\, im mensely insightful clips—astonishing pieces of historical footage\, nake d attempts at brainwashing\, and brilliantly liberating scenes from some o f the best films ever made.\n\nThink of them as engine-cutaway-view demons tration tapes. None will ever be longer than **6.66 minutes**.\n\nOne part icular path\, out of a countable infinity of possible paths. But once you' ve journeyed through it\, you'll feel its necessity.\n\n**METHOD**\n\n* Wa tch this week’s chillingly deep video clips\, located [*will post within 24 hours*].\n* As always\, summaries\, notes\, event chatlogs\, episode t ranscripts\, timelines\, tables\, observations\, and downloadable PDFs for all the episodes we cover can be found here: [THORR (The High Ontology Re ading Room)](https://high-ontology.notion.site/?pvs=4)\n\n**ABOUT PROFESSO R TAUBENECK**\n\nProfessor Taubeneck is professor of German and Philosophy at UBC\, first [translator](https://www.amazon.com/Encyclopedia-Philosoph ical-Sciences-Critical-Writings/dp/0826403409/) of Hegel’s *Encyclopedia * into English\, and SADHO CΦO. Most impressively\, he has also been wres tling with the core texts of 20-cent. phenomenology and existentialism for over 30 years\, and has worked and collaborated with Gadamer\, Derrida\, and Rorty.\n\nView all of our coming episodes [here](https://www.meetup.co m/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/). URL;VALUE=URI:https://www.meetup.com/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/events/ 316983538/ STATUS:CONFIRMED CREATED:20261014T220329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20261014T220329Z CLASS:PUBLIC END:VEVENT X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.meetup.com/scott-and-daves-high-ontology/events /ical/ X-WR-CALNAME:Scott & Dave’s High Ontology END:VCALENDAR