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Living In Expectation of the Unexpected Gift

We Fray Into the Future

You Can't Optimize For Rest

Earth Alienation As A Service

The Human-Built World Is Not Built For Humans

Pity, Power, and Presence

A World Ordered Only By Search

Notes from the Metaverse (Audio Version)

Discussion Thread: Robo-Umpires, Automation, and Outsourced Judgment

Notes From the Metaverse

Nice Image You've Got There. Shame If It Got Memed.

Outsourcing Virtue

A Brief Orientation to the Convivial Society

Ill With Want (Audio Version)

Ill With Want

Thresholds of Artificiality

The Limits of Optimization

The Questions Concerning Technology

Digital Inception

Surviving the Show: Illich And The Case For An Askesis of Perception

The Results are In

Forgetting the Body

The Answer Is Not More Information

Resistance Is Futile: The Myth of Tech Inevitability

Your Attention Is Not a Resource

Impossible Silences

Reading Illich: Ethics of the Gaze

The Paradox of Control

Reading Illich: "Rivers North" Synchronous Thread (1 p.m. EST)

Remembering Illich: A Conversation with David Cayley

Discussion Thread: Death and Digital Media

The Hermeneutical Imperative

What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?

Reading Illich: Rivers North of the Future

The Insurrection Will Be Live Streamed: Notes Toward a Theory of Digitization

A Note to Annual Subscribers About Auto-Renewals

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