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15/10/2026

The idea of progress is one of the animating concepts of Western civilisation. It permeates our understanding of history and shapes the way we imagine the future. From Marxism and neoliberalism to today’s identity politics, progress offers a framework of knowledge and confidence: an assurance that things can get better and a justification for our desires.

What determines whether the ideas of progress give rise to, well, progress, or merely the substitution of the old?

In June 2025, Verdurin convened a conversation between author of "The Progress Trap" Ben Cobley, Spiked magazine’s deputy editor Fraser Myers, and environmental philosopher and former Extinction Rebellion spokesman Rupert Read.

Listen on the Verdurin podcast: https://verdur.in/event/progressive-agendas/

Tonight at Verdurin: Trauma FictionA conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, E...
13/10/2026

Tonight at Verdurin: Trauma Fiction

A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp.

📅 13 October, 7pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/trauma-fiction/

Against the rise of trauma culture, truth is no longer the currency of wrongs. What use is fiction in narrating the evils that permeate our lives? How do cultures reconcile themselves to their traumatic present through artifice?

Last week at Verdurin, screening and discussing "The Blue Express" with Zinovy Zinik.
12/10/2026

Last week at Verdurin, screening and discussing "The Blue Express" with Zinovy Zinik.

Coming up at Verdurin: Disenchantment, or the Liturgy of LackA discussion on religious experience with Peter Rollins. 📅 ...
12/10/2026

Coming up at Verdurin: Disenchantment, or the Liturgy of Lack
A discussion on religious experience with Peter Rollins.

📅 28 October, 7pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/disenchantment/

What if the embrace of alienation gave rise to religious conversion? The route to spiritual salvation already involves doubt and anxiety. Should it intentionally focus on them?

The philosopher, theorist, and author Peter Rollins proposes a religionless form of Christianity.

Next week at Verdurin: Trauma FictionA conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai,...
09/10/2026

Next week at Verdurin: Trauma Fiction

A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp.

📅 13 October, 7pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/trauma-fiction/

Jaspreet Singh Boparai is a classicist. He is a Senior Fellow of the Pharos Foundation and a contributing editor at The Lamp. He is currently writing a book on Classics in British India.

09/10/2026

The anxieties around the decline of reading and literacy paradoxically give rise to outsized fantasies of the power of reading.

In this, the final part of "Out of Print", Edmund King reflects on bibliotherapy and some of the symposium's highlights. As humanists feel increasingly under threat in the institutions, they attribute to reading (particularly the reading of fiction) miraculous and healing powers.

Audio now online: https://verdur.in/event/out-of-print/

08/10/2026

Does the devaluing of literacy coincide with a devaluing of human minds, experience, and relations, a devaluing expressed in the dominant culture of technicist materialism?

In this, the fourth part of "Out of Print" — Verdurin's symposium on literacy held in June 2026 and organised with Edmund King — Nick Hostettler explores how the personal inner conflicts experienced by teachers and students caught up in the deepening corporatisation of schools and universities can be translated into resources for defending the truly human.

Audio now online: https://verdur.in/event/out-of-print/

Next week at Verdurin: Trauma FictionA conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai,...
08/10/2026

Next week at Verdurin: Trauma Fiction

A conversation on the literature of collective anguish with Jaspreet Singh-Boparai, Edward McLaren, and Joshua Knapp.

📅 13 October, 7pm
🎟️ https://verdur.in/event/trauma-fiction/

Joshua Knapp grew up in the north of England. After university, he taught religion in schools in London before heading north again. He now lives in West Yorkshire and works in public transport.

"The Haxton Review" is his first novel, although he has written for church newspapers and transport magazines. He enjoys reading and walking on the hills. He doesn’t have any kids or pets. He did recently own a cactus but it died due to his neglect.

07/10/2026

What if the problem of literacy is not its decline, but rather our hyper-literate state? The written word has become a bulwark against experience, with the reading of social media posts or Substack essays is at best a distraction.

In this, the third part of "Out of Print" — Verdurin's symposium on literacy held in June 2026 and organised with Edmund King — Kit Wilson explores the confusion of the ‘map’ with the ‘territory’ that occludes access to an understanding of things outside of language itself.

Audio now online: https://verdur.in/event/out-of-print/

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