Category: Announcements

  • Electric Agora shutting down, new media venture launching soon

    Today we are shutting down all activities for The Electric Agora and will soon be archiving the site. The social media accounts for The Electric Agora were hacked and posts on those accounts are not us – please unfollow/block/report those accounts. A new media venture by Daniel Kaufman featuring many of Electric Agora’s regular contributors…

  • Site Maintenance Update

    The Electric Agora website is currently undergoing system updates – one result of this is that comments are temporarily disabled on the site. We are working to upgrade many of EA’s features and appreciate your patience and excuse our mess.

  • New Things on the Horizon

    by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ Readers will notice that The Electric Agora has received a significant makeover. This is not all that is coming to the magazine that is new, however. This reskin is the first step in what will be an expansion of The Electric Agora to include a new fiction and arts “wing.”…

  • Plea For Patience Redux

    by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ To EA’s readers and contributors. Tomorrow morning (Tuesday, January 11), I will be embarking on an 18 hour drive to New York. I will be splitting the drive into two days. My father is very near his end, and my mother is no longer capable of doing even the household…

  • The Electric Agora at 6 (Going on 7) and Our Best Year Yet!

    by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ The Electric Agora launched in 2015 and by that year’s end had been read by 6,270 people, some 33,721 times. This struck me as quite a lot, given that we never advertised or marketed the site in any way, other than sustaining Twitter and Facebook accounts, where we we promote…

  • Announcing our newest podcast, “Culture and Value”

    by Daniel A. Kaufman ____ The Electric Agora is proud to announce its newest podcast, hosted by our own Mark English, “Culture and Value.” The podcast will be audio only, and available on all the podcast-apps on which our other podcasts are found.  Mark describes the project in this brief, introductory episode. https://youtu.be/NV8ZQT_Fntw

  • please be patient with me!

    by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ To the EA readership: My father has once again been hospitalized for the effects of Congestive Heart Failure.  I will be traveling to New York this Friday.  Please be patient with me, as content and discussion moderation may be a bit less efficient than usual.  I greatly appreciate it! I…

  • everyday philosophers

    by Daniel A. Kaufman ___ Join EA’s own Robert Gressis (Cal State Northridge) and his guests for EVERYDAY PHILOSOPHERS, a podcast dedicated to conversations with the non-celebrity philosophers who do most of the teaching and research in the US and elsewhere.

  • Introducing: EA Podcasts!

    by Daniel A. Kaufman ____ The Electric Agora is adding a podcast/video streaming “wing” to our site! It can be accessed via the “Podcast” tab at the top of EA’s homepage. Videos are hosted on YouTube, on a dedicated channel to which you can subscribe. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmifc5HsTq0xpiDg3zEAZeQ Right now, the links will take you to YouTube. …

  • Welcome Mariah Gregg-Fling: EA’s House Artist

    Since we began in 2015, the Electric Agora has been enjoying a steadily increasing readership.  Last year, 2019, EA was read 209,170 times by 89,620 distinct readers. With increased readership comes increased attention, and I am concerned about the site’s use of unlicensed images for its banners and article thumbnails. Mariah Gregg-Fling is a former…