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Your Attention Is Not a Resource
Here 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…
L. M. Sacasas
Apr 1
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Impossible Silences
In 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…
L. M. Sacasas
Mar 23
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Reading Illich: Ethics of the Gaze
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…
L. M. Sacasas
Mar 17
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The Paradox of Control
Exploring 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…
L. M. Sacasas
Mar 10
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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…
L. M. Sacasas
Feb 12
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Remembering Illich: A Conversation with David Cayley
This installment is the latest in a series of conversations with colleagues and friends of Ivan Illich. For over thirty years, David Cayley worked for …
L. M. Sacasas
Feb 8
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Discussion Thread: Death and Digital Media
Consider this another Convivial Society experiment: an open discussion thread. I’ll introduce a topic and the thread is open for anyone who want…
L. M. Sacasas
Feb 4
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The Hermeneutical Imperative
Just as for Peter Berger the sociological structures of modern society generated the heretical imperative, so, too, I would like to propose, the techno…
L. M. Sacasas
Jan 31
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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 29
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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…
L. M. Sacasas
Jan 23
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The Insurrection Will Be Live Streamed: Notes Toward a Theory of Digitization
It’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…
L. M. Sacasas
Jan 15
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A Note to Annual Subscribers About Auto-Renewals
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 …
L. M. Sacasas
Jan 2
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