The Long Now Foundation presents a talk series in the Cowell Theater, Pier 2 and The Interval At Long Now, Building A at Fort Mason Center For Arts & Culture.
Akómoláfé is a philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, and executive director of The Emergence Network. Ayin Press co-presents this talk. Ayin publishes Akomolafe’s next book, Selah: A Báyò Akómoláfé Reader. Eden Pearlstein, Ayin Press cofounder, hosts Akómoláfé.
“The Untimely,” May 5, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
Jue is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater, which won the Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science Book Prize, and the co-editor of Saturation: An Elemental Politics with Rafico Ruiz. Her research and writings focus on ocean humanities, science fiction, media studies, science and technology studies, and the environmental humanities.
“Ocean Memory,” March 18, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
Eric Ries, building on his upcoming book, Incorruptible: Why Good Companies Go Bad and How Great Companies Stay Great, talks about how founders and leaders can build incorruptible organizations that will last for decades and tangibly support human flourishing.
“Incorruptible By Design,” April 7, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
Claire Isabel Webb directs the Future Humans program at the Berggruen Institute, where she explores the radical scientific transformations shaping life, mind, and outer space. Nina Miolane is an Assistant Professor at the University of California–Santa Barbara and Director of the Geometric Intelligence Lab, where she works at the intersection of mathematics, artificial intelligence, and neuroscience.
The Interval At Long Now, April 20, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
Akómoláfé is a philosopher, writer, activist, professor of psychology, and executive director of The Emergence Network. Rooted with the Yoruba people, Akómoláfé works as an essayist, poet, and is the author of These Wilds Beyond Our Fences: Letters To My Daughter On Humanity’s Search for Home.
“The Untimely,” May 5, 2026, 7:00 p.m.
Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday, April 7, 2026; April 20, 2026; and May 5, 2026
Most Dates: 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. (Check-in begins at 6:00 p.m.)
Cowell Theater or The Interval At Long Now, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, 2 Marina Boulevard, San Francisco
$25 to $100 ($28.52 to $108.55 with fees)
Long Now Foundation:
LongNow.org
(415) 561-6582
services@LongNow.org
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