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The Questions Concerning TechnologyA set of 41 questions drafted with a view to helping us draw out the moral or ethical implications of our tools.
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Jun 5Comment 3Share
It’s a dangerous business going online. You step into the Database, and if you don’t keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off t…
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Jun 1Comment 1Share
Surviving the Show: Illich And The Case For An Askesis of Perception Attending to the world is an embodied practice involving our senses, and how we experience our senses has a history. The upshot is that we might be abl…
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May 27Comment 5Share
It was something.
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May 7Comment 2Share
The Convivial Society: Vol. 2, No. 9
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May 6Comment 14Share
The Answer Is Not More InformationMy point turns out to be relatively straightforward: may be you and I don’t need more information. And, if we think that the key to navigating uncerta…
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Apr 28Comment 5Share
This time around I’m passing along a slightly expanded version of a short talk I had the pleasure of giving at a virtual event hosted by the Future Nar…
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Apr 22Comment 5Share
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
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