Monday, October 1
James Howard Kunstler, “Can America Remain Civilized?”
Whitley Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
With his classics of social critique The Long Emergency and The Geography of Nowhere, Kunstler established himself as one of the great commentators on American space, place and the post-peak oil future. In many polemical books, he has investigated society’s relationship to our landscape and the future of American “civilization” in the face of resource scarcity, climate change and the dislocations of capital finance. His latest book is Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation.