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Your Attention Is Not a ResourceHere is a proposition for you to consider: you and I have exactly as much attention as we need. In fact, I’d invite you to do more than consider it. T…
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Apr 1Comment 9Share
Impossible SilencesIn this installment, I reflect on the challenge of speaking online in the absence of meaningful silences. The point is not, in this case, to complain a…
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Mar 23Comment 2Share
Hello all, I’m experimenting again, this time with a relatively impromptu discussion group around an article by Illich rather than a book. And rather t…
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Mar 17Comment 1Share
The Paradox of ControlExploring the paradox of control, which is the subject of German sociologist Hartmut Rosa’s recent book, The Uncontrollability of the World. It’s a sho…
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Mar 10Comment 6Share
Reading Illich: "Rivers North" Synchronous Thread (1 p.m. EST)Hello all, This synchronous discuss thread on Rivers North of the Future will begin in just under an hour from now at 1PM (EST). The thread is o…
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Feb 12Comment 72Share
Remembering Illich: A Conversation with David CayleyThis installment is the latest in a series of conversations with colleagues and friends of Ivan Illich. For over thirty years, David Cayley worked for …
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Feb 8Comment 22Share
Discussion Thread: Death and Digital MediaConsider this another Convivial Society experiment: an open discussion thread. I’ll introduce a topic and the thread is open for anyone who want…
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Feb 4Comment 46Share
The Hermeneutical ImperativeJust as for Peter Berger the sociological structures of modern society generated the heretical imperative, so, too, I would like to propose, the techno…
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Jan 31Comment 7Share
What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?Starlink is a point of departure to consider the costs of the unrelenting drive toward artificial illumination, a technological development most of us …
L. M. Sacasas
Jan 29Comment 8Share
Reading Illich: Rivers North of the Future Hello all, After a longer delay than expected, I’m finally getting us to our next reading group title, David Cayley’s Rivers North of the Future…
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Jan 23Comment 17Share
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 covere…
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Jan 15Comment 8Share
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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Jan 2Comment 5Share
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