organizing the sensorium
In his extraordinary book The Presence of the Word (1967), Walter Ong wrote, Growing up, assimilating the wisdom of the...
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a clarification
A quick note: in response to my previous post several people have emailed or tweeted to recommend Jacques Ellul or...
the technological history of modernity
I’m going to try to piece a few things together here, so hang on for the ride — I have been reading and enjoying...
more on the “Californian ideology”
A brief follow-up to a recent post … Here’s an interesting article by Samuel Loncar called “The...
ideas and their consequences
I want to spend some time here expanding on a point I made in my previous post, because I think it’s relevant to...
prosthetics, child-rearing, and social construction
There’s much to think and talk about in this report by Rose Eveleth on prosthetics, which makes me think about all...
more on the Theses
So let’s recap. Here are my original theses for disputation. Responses: Chad Wellmon Me Ned O’Gorman Me Andrew...
on the attention economy
Let me zero in on what I think is the key paragraph in my friend Chad Wellmon’s response to some of my theses: But...
returning: a process
Hello everybody. I’m back from a wonderful visit to the good people at the Institute for Advanced Studies in...
report from the Luddite kingdom
What world does Michael Solana live in? Apparently, a world where Luddites have taken power and have driven our kind...