THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 7pm – NON-FICTION
Free Thought Society of Greater Philadelphia Presents
BARRY VACKER
reading from Starry Skies Moving Away (2009)

which explores how humanity’s view of utopia and destiny has evolved (and devolved) with cosmological discoveries, from Galileo to the space age to the big bang. The reading will include a most original interpretation of the long-term meaning of Apollo 8 and 11, the meaning never provided by NASA or the media. Certain to stimulate atheists and free thinkers!
Barry Vacker teaches media and cultural studies at Temple University. Most recently, Barry wrote the text for Peter Granser’s photography book about America, Signs (Hatje Cantz and the Chicago Museum for Contemporary Photography, 2008), which has been featured in museums and galleries around the world. Barry wrote and directed the documentary film, Space Times Square (2007), which has screened in New York, Paris, Hamburg, Beijing, and cyberspace. He is also founder of Theory Vortex, an experimental media firm that produced his film and the “Theory Zero” book series: Zero Conditions (2008), Crashing into Vanishing Points (2009), and Starry Skies Moving Away (2009). He is also the author of Slugging Nothing: Fighting the Future in Fight Club (2009).
www.barryvacker.net
theoryvortex.blogspot.com