STEPHANIE LEPP'S TED TALK is live.  That's pretty cool.  It is a short version of her Faces of X capitalism debate performed by actor Bill Heck.  Afterwards, Stephanie comes out on stage to explain the principles behind discussions that go beyond “two sides."

Stephanie Lepp has been pioneering new media solutions to promulgate more complex vertical and metaperspectival takes by demonstrating their ease and their necessity in the face of today's most intractable problems.  This article is everything you need to stay up-to-date on Lepp's work.  It's a Leppdate.

From her imaginative redemptive arcs for problematic celebrities (what she calls "deep fake it till we make it), to her work carrying forward the Anti-Debates, to her Faces of X project (here's her Emerge article introducing the concept), to the recent Ted talk, it is an impressive and ongoing body of work.  She was also recently interviewed by Alexander Beiner as part of his KAINOS project.

The integral philosopher Ken Wilber said that no one is smart enough to be 100% wrong.  Stephanie says something similar:  “Even the worst person knows something you don't."

This is the basic humanist, developmentalist, and transpartisan sensibility that informs her ongoing efforts to reframe, rephrase, and restructure integrative consciousness as a simplified, public-facing, and media-savvy enterprise.  The goal is to figure out ways to facilitate personal and interpersonal sensemaking through embodied learning in mediated environments. 

Even for those of us who have a good and creative command of emerging realities, we sometimes do not know, or perhaps do not want to do all the work ourselves, to help others face more complex realities.  Stephanie has been trying to give us tools to help.

Here are some tips on hosting a screening of the Faces of X material -- including where to access various pertinent videos and some structured discussion questions that might help guide inquiry and assimilation after viewing.

There -- you're basically up-to-date on Lepp. 

For more, you can check out her Synthesis Media (formerly Infinite Lunchbox) on Insta or Tik Tok.




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As a pioneer in the Anti-debates movement, Steph has been prototyping and tweaking versions of discussions that try to find some new ground on complex divisive topics.  One of the test versions, to see how her protocols worked, was a publicly available Anti-Debate on Gender Affirming Care feat. Layman Pascal & Shereef Bishay.