the blind man’s stick
How Things Shape the Mind: A Theory of Material Engagement, by Lambros Malafouris, is a maddening but also fascinating...
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my big fat intellectual project
If there is any one general topic that has preoccupied me in the last decade, it’s … well, it’s hard to put...
the three big stories of modernity
So far there have been three widely influential stories about the rise of modernity: the Emancipatory, the Protestant,...
a parable
John Martin, Pandemonium (1841) In Milton’s Paradise Lost, almost as soon as the rebel angels crash to the floor...
more on the THM
So I continue to think about this whole technological history of modernity thing, about which I have some...
organizing the sensorium
In his extraordinary book The Presence of the Word (1967), Walter Ong wrote, Growing up, assimilating the wisdom of the...
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...
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...