Pecha Kucha: The Bet

"Pascal had his abyss that moved along with him", says Charles Baudelaire's poem Le Gouffre (The abyss). Pascal's wager sketches out a method for decision making under conditions of uncertainty. In the epistemology of the modern age, the "wager" or "bet" is the opposite of the "contract". The contract locks everyone into mutual obligation; a bet is a zero sum game: if someone wins that means that someone else, somewhere else, has to forfeit his share. If someone wins BIG, that means that someone else, somewhere else, has no means to feed his family.

Hosted by Ana Teixeira Pinto.

With

Julieta Aranda
Federica Bueti & Jan Verwoert
Luca Cerizza
Hadley+Maxwell
Adam Kleinman
Brian Kuan Wood
David Levine
Gernot Wieland

A series inspired by Pecha Kucha evenings: The attention span of an average adult is 20 minutes. We do not intend to cross your threshold.