Everyone is "Protestant" Online (L.M. Sacasas)

How do we all act as protestants online? L.M. Sacasas joins Henry (4th time!?) to chat about material/digital culture, how we compensate for natural affordances in new digital interfaces, our inability to account for non-measurable losses, texture vs. frictionlessness, lofi, roguelikes, reality tv, ambient data capture, extracting our private life for gain, how digital space is more of a past rather a place. (Recorded August 2022) Transcript: [00:00] Introduction [04:15] The Everyday Texture of Material Culture [07:11] Translated Affordances of Digital Interfaces [09:11] The Burden of Note-Taking Systems [10:36] No Accounting for Loss [11:48] The Added Texture of Lofi [14:54] Anchors of the Material World [16:02] The Frictionless Life [18:03] The Internal Motivation of Roguelikes [19:42] The Language of Needs [21:52] Liturgies and Mediums [22:47] No Material Trace [24:41] Compensating for the Losses of the Digital [27:28] You can't capture me! [29:11] Reality TV prepped us for the Very Online Life [31:23] Ambient Capture and Surveillance Culture [33:41] On the Terms of the Medium [35:41] Extraction of Private Life into Public Benefit [38:28] On Loneliness and Making a Living [41:45] Negotiating The Terms of Technology [43:45] The Gradience of Relationality in Sidewalk Life [45:12] Artificially Reconstituting Our Being in a Built Environment [48:07] A Gaze Turned Pastward

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Everyone is "Protestant" Online (L.M. Sacasas) is an episode from Hope in Source by Henry Zhu.

This episode is 00:50:14 long.

This episode was published on Sep 27, 2022.

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