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The Insurrection Will Be Live Streamed: Notes Toward a Theory of DigitizationIt’s hard to know where to begin, of course; the situation has many interlocking layers. The most notable and disturbing elements have been well covered, and we continue to learn more about the event each day. The picture, it seems, only grows darker. For my part, I’ve been espe…
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Happy New Year, everyone. It was one year ago today that I activated paid subscriptions for the Convivial Society and that some of you very generously …
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The Disorders of our Collective Consciousness“Existence in a society that has become a system finds the senses useless precisely because of the very instruments designed for their extension. One i…
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Dec 31, 2020 1
From the time we were children, we knew that our experience of time could shift. We knew that time would pass much more slowly during certain periods: …
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Dec 26, 2020 2
Old Voices Shed New Light“All technical progress exacts a price. We cannot believe that Technique brings us nothing; but we must not think that what it brings it brings free of…
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Dec 18, 2020 4
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Nov 17, 2020 7
When the Timeline Becomes Our SidewalkReflections on Jane Jacobs, sidewalks, digital media, and our common civic life.
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Nov 12, 2020 6
Structurally Induced AcediaTending to our information ecosystem, if we attempt it at all, requires a striking degree of vigilance and discipline. There is no given balance betwee…
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Nov 5, 2020 7
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