310 - Annie Crawford - C.S. Lewis on Progress, AI, and Gender
The Symbolic World
Jonathan Pageau
4.8 • 933 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2023
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Sign up for Annie’s course on the C.S. Lewis Ransom Trilogy. If you sign up now you will get the recordings of the first 10 lessons. The remaining 5 lessons on That Hideous Strength will be every Friday at 3pm CST / 4pm EST: https://the-symbolic-world.circle.so/checkout/cs-lewis-trilogy
Email us at inquiries@symbolicworldpress.com if you have any questions or reach out to Annie in our website community: https://the-symbolic-world.circle.so/home
Annie’s articles on the Symbolic World Blog:
- ‘Cosmos’: A Poetic Reflection on the Medieval Model: https://thesymbolicworld.com/content/cosmos-a-poetic-reflection-on-the-medieval-model
- Gender and the Cosmos: The Restoration of Worlds in C.S. Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy: https://thesymbolicworld.com/content/gender-and-the-cosmos-the-restoration-of-worlds-in-c-s-lewis-s-ransom-trilogy
Timestamps:
0:00 Coming up
0:27 - Intro music
0:51 - Introduction
3:21 - The Symbolic World community
4:22 - C.S. Lewis' Ransom Trilogy
6:14 - The disembodied head
7:20 - Gender and C.S. Lewis
13:31 - C.S. Lewis' approach to the topic
17:41 - The "third gender"
24:04 - The ending of "That Hideous Strength"
31:46 - Waters above and below
33:39 - Lewis and Dante
39:44 - Theology and "science"
46:31 - Barfield and Lewis: an original unity
53:30 - Merlin's Last Laugh
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| 0:00.0 | this vague notion of progress that he sets up where nobody really knows everybody knows that they're |
| 0:05.6 | being on the right side of history and everybody knows that they're working towards this great |
| 0:11.2 | progressive thing but nobody knows what it is and it's like that's still like that today you look |
| 0:16.4 | around us and we notice people talking about progress and being progressive and, you know, this is the |
| 0:21.3 | future. But if you ask them what that means, they just stare at you blankly because they have no |
| 0:25.3 | idea where it is that they're heading. |
| 0:42.4 | This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world. |
| 1:00.2 | Hello, everyone. I am speaking with Annie Crawford. Annie is a scholar who has studied C.S. Lewis. She teaches Baywolf. She teaches all these things in classical high school. She's also written quite a bit. And she is going to head up a class on C.S. Lewis and the Ransom |
| 1:10.0 | Trilogy for us, something that I've also |
| 1:12.3 | read recently. It seems to be kind of in the air. Everybody's talking about it. Everybody is |
| 1:16.4 | buzzing around it because it seems like it points to a lot of things that are happening now in |
| 1:21.1 | terms of, let's say the shape of the world, but also in terms of the reenchantment and a return |
| 1:26.4 | of more cosmic thinking. |
| 1:29.0 | And she recently wrote an article for us on gender and cosmology about CS Lewis, which |
| 1:34.3 | you can check out on the symbolic world blog. And so, Andy, I'll let you also introduce yourself |
| 1:39.1 | and tell us a little bit about your background and what sparked this class that you're going to give |
| 1:43.6 | for us. |
| 1:51.7 | Yeah. Hi, Jonathan. Thanks for having me. So I'm from Austin, Texas, and I have homeschooled my three daughters. And I think I've always been interested in C.S. Lewis very much. He played an |
| 1:59.0 | important role in my own journey toward coming to understand |
| 2:03.2 | the world and what it means to be human. And as I've homeschooled my girls, we've just been |
| 2:07.9 | learning together, diving deeper, deeper into the tradition. And then as I'm educating them, |
| 2:15.3 | seeking around me, who else we can invite into this work of integrating |
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