Podcast #23: David Bosworth on Conscientious Thinking

Author and cultural critic David Bosworth discusses America’s myth of individualism and how it feeds a digital culture that ironically infantilizes its users and demands constant approval from strangers.

By Mo Lotman | December 12, 2018 | Culture, Ethics, Philosophy, Podcasts, Relationships, Society | "Momism", Accumulation, Affiliation, Atomization, Common Sense, Connection, Conscience, Convenience, Corporations, Descartes, Ethics, Idiot Savant, Individualism, Infantilization, Internet, Malls, MIT Media Lab, Nicholas Negroponte, Profit, Science, Smartphones, Superficiality, surveillance, Thomas Paine, University of Washington, Value, Virtue, Wikipedia

The Informed Preference for Permanence (Principles of Technoskepticism, Part Three)

Our technological mindset leads to an “enforced impermanence” as the new is always prioritized over the old. The resultant rootlessness and churn contributes to a sense of disequilibrium while keeping us apart from the steadying forces of tradition and wisdom.

By David A. J. Reynolds | March 21, 2018 | Agriculture, Philosophy, Society | Agribusiness, Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, C.S. Lewis, Capitalism, Change, Chronological Snobbery, Communism, Connection, Culture, Czechoslovakia, Despoliation, Disequilibrium, Disorientation, Ecology, Edmund Burke, Family Farms, Farming, Fashion, Groundedness, Heritage, History, Impermanence, Inheritance, Inhumanity, Jan Patočka, Machines, Manipulation, Meaning, Michael Hanby, Michael Oakeshott, Modernity, Modernization, Nature, Newness, Obsolescence, Permanence, Presence, Presentism, Productivity, Reality, Roger Kimball, Roger Scruton, Soil, Stability, Standing Reserve, T.S. Eliot, Time, Tradition, Vaclav Havel, Value, Wisdom

For the Feint of Art

Additive manufacturing, colloquially known as 3-D printing, has made an enormous impact in nearly every field, from health and medicine, [...]

By Katherine Vazquez | August 3, 2016 | Automation, Culture | 3-D Printing, Additive Manufacturing, Art, Artists, Painting, Rembrandt, The Jewish Bride, The Next Rembrandt, Tim Zaman, Value