HYBRID: Chaos Theory and Culture Jamming

This class will be offered both in person at the Wicked Grounds Annex in San Francisco, and simultaneously as a live, online class offered through Zoom. Please select SF or online tickets when purchasing.

How did Emperor Norton inspire early internet engineers, writers, and playboy editors to found a religion? How did this conspiracy of Counter Culture writers and Chaos magicians reanimate the Illuminati? What is culture jamming and how did its influence on early hacker culture shape our current political affairs? All these questions will be answered in this unique seminar on Norton, Discordianism, conspiracy theories, and practical jokes as political activism.

This class will explore San Francisco in three Eras: starting in the Gilded Age, continuing through the Counterculture Era, and ending with a Modern focus. We will also be exploring fascist metapolitics, their claims of using meme magic, and offers a praxis informed by far-right vulnerabilities to resist their oppression.

Finally, the course will demonstrate a means by which Culture Jamming can help you find and be your favorite self. Whether a student of counterculture or an enthusiast for San Francisco's influence on American thought, this class is sure to enlighten and/or confuse. Now with updated and new material.

PRESENTER:

Jarys Maragopoulos is an educator, pagan minister, and writer who has informally studied the occult for over 15 years. They co-host Wicked Grounds' monthly Sex Magick Coffee Social and serve as a volunteer elected head Pastor at the First Church of the Morningstar in the Bay Area. Jarys also volunteers Intersex actavism and advocacy.

TICKETING:

This class will be offered both in person at the Wicked Grounds Annex in San Francisco, and simultaneously as a live, online class offered through Zoom. Please select SF or online tickets when purchasing.

$15 - $35 in advance, or $20 - $40 at the door for in-person attendance.

https://forbiddentickets.com/events/wicked-grounds/83f42dd5b4

We offer a sliding scale, so that cost is not a barrier to attendance.

The regular ticket is $25. This is what most people should pay.

The $15 ticket is offered for those for whom the $25 ticket would be a barrier to participation. If $25 is too much, we take your word for it! Just pay $15.

Have a great salary? Feeling generous? Paying at the $35 level allows us to make the discounted ticketing available to others who need it. :)

If cost is a barrier at any point on the sliding scale, please use the Volunteer List at the bottom of the listing to request a scholarship seat.

So - that's it! Choose the level you can comfortably afford.

ACCESS:

This class will be taught out of the Wicked Grounds Annex, and will simultaneously be offered as a live, online class through Zoom. You may choose to attend in person at the Wicked Grounds Annex in San Francisco, or online from anywhere in the world!

In SF, this class will be held in the Wicked Grounds Annex. Please note that stairs at the front door are the only means of ingress and egress to the space. Proof of COVID vaccination and masking are both required for all participants. We recommend arriving 10 minutes before the class start time for check in; late check-ins may require you to have vaccination and ticketing verified next door at Wicked Grounds Cafe & Boutique before entry.

Please do not attend in person if you have any respiratory symptoms whatsoever. Anyone displaying signs of respiratory symptoms may be asked to leave, regardless of vaccination status.

Or, attend online anywhere via Zoom! To participate, you will need to download the free, basic version of the Zoom app before the class. This class will not be recorded and is not available for later viewing. Zoom now provides closed captioning which will be available for this event.