Performances

Selected audio and video clips:

Sun Valley Writer's Conference
August 24, 2008
Sun Valley, Idaho

Proceedings of the First Meeting of the World Aphorism Organization
March 14, 2008
Goodenough College, London, under the sponsorship of the University of London’s Institute of Philosophy

Waterstone’s Bookshop, Gower Street, London
March 13, 2008
Excerpts from a juggling aphorist...

2007

The Foreign Policy Association
Oct. 10, 2007
The Lester S. Morse, Jr. Lecture: Aphorisms and Diplomacy

LIVE from the NYPL
Oct. 9, 2007
Juggling Aphorisms (edited)

2006

The Falmouth Festival of Literature & Arts
Oct. 7, 2006
How Benjamin Franklin begat Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce...

The Ilkley Literature Festival
Oct. 1, 2006
Hear about aphorists Stanislaw Jerzy Lec and Nicolas Chamfort

Ways With Words Festival, Dartington Hall
July 8, 2006
Listen to some of the tricky questions from the audience and my attempted answers

Swindon Festival of Literature
May 2, 2006
See the Five Laws of the Aphorism explained — while juggling!

2002

The Institute of Contemporary Arts
Feb. 26, 2002
A panel discussion focused on some of the themes addressed in my earlier book The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses.

Sun Valley Writer's Conference

August 24, 2008


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The Sun Valley Writer's Conference is one of the world's most amazing literary events.

I was lucky enough to do my juggling aphorisms show there, an audio file of which is below.

Aphorisms, Juggling and the Immortality of Language (49:51)

Real Audio stream 11.7Mb

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©2008 James Geary

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