Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros frontman Alex Ebert will discuss the phenomena of cool in a Zoom call on May 21. The dialogue is being curated and hosted by the philosophical platform The Stoa (Peter Limberg).

“For the past 9 years I’ve been working on a book on Cool,” Ebert said. “What I’ve discovered may change your life and view of social status and anxiety in the same way it changed mine. I’ll be sharing it all for the first time on May 21st.”

The non-fiction book, “Kingdom Cool,” is “basically entirely about the sort of self-relegation mechanism of social anxiety that is called ‘cool,'” Ebert said last year on an episode of The Resistance podcast.

“Alex demystifies the ‘rules of cool’ and discusses how coolness weaponized our status and colonized dissent.”

-The Stoa

To register and join the call and the conversation, RSVP here. Ebert will take questions at the end of the call.

The Stoa describes itself as a “space where people come, not for a reason, as they are coming for something that is beyond a reason. It is a space that holds space for what wants to emerge when people encounter each other.”

For more information about “Kingdom Cool,” check out Andrew Horn’s podcast, titled “What’s the Big Idea – Alex Ebert: Overcoming social anxiety on stage.“