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Audio version of The Convivial Society, a newsletter exploring the intersections of technology, society, and the moral life. theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Hello all, The audio version keep coming. Here you have the audio for Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology . Below you’ll fin...
I continue to catch up on supplying audio versions of past essays. Here you have the audio for “Vision Con,” an essay about Apple’s mixed re...
Just before my unexpected hiatus during the latter part of last year, I had gotten back to the practice of recording audio version of my ess...
At long last, the audio version of the Convivial Society returns. It’s been a long time, which I do regret. Going back to 2020, it had been...
Welcome back to the Convivial Society . In this installment, you’ll find the audio version of the latest essay, “What You Get Is the World.”...
Welcome again to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. This post features the audio version of the essay that w...
Welcome back to the Convivial Society . In this installment, you’ll find the audio version of two recent posts: “The Pathologies of the Atte...
Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. In this installment, I explore a somewhat eccentric frame by w...
This is the audio version of the last essay posted a couple of days ago, “What Is To Be Done? — Fragments.” It was a long time between insta...
Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. This is the audio version of the last installment, which focus...
Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter exploring the relationship between technology and culture. This is what counts as a relative...
Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. I tend to think of my writing as way of clarify my thinking, o...
Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology, culture, and the moral life. In this installment you’ll find the audio ver...
Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. The pace of the newsletter has been slow of late, which I regr...
Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter that is ostensibly about technology and culture but more like my effort to make some sense o...
As promised, here is the audio version of the last installment, “The Dream of Virtual Reality.” To those of you who find the audio version h...
Welcome to a special installment of the Convivial Society featuring my conversation with Andrew McLuhan. I can’t recall how or when I first...
Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. In this installment I write a bit about burnout, exhaustion, a...
Welcome again to the Convivial Society . This installment follows relatively quickly on the last, and you may be forgiven for not having yet...
Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. It’s been a bit longer than usual since our last installment,...
A week after the fact, here is the audio version of the last installment: “Notes from the Metaverse.” Ordinarily, the audio version accompan...
Welcome to The Convivial Society . In this installment, you’ll find some thoughts on the cultural consequences of digital media. A big chunk...
“What is fundamental to a convivial society is not the total absence of manipulative institutions and addictive goods and services, but the...
I sent out an installment titled “Ill With Want” a couple of days ago, but was unable at the time to include the audio version. I know that...
Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture, broadly speaking. This post began as part of a recent feature...
A few days ago, a handful of similar stories or anecdotes about technology came to my attention. While they came from different sectors and...
“It appears to me that we cannot neglect the disciplined recovery, an asceticism, of a sensual praxis in a society of technogenic mirages. T...
Some have argued that one benefit of the new newsletter ecosystem is a return to the older conventions of blogging in its halcyon days. I do...
“Attention discourse” is how I usually refer to the proliferation of essays, articles, talks, and books around the problem of attention (or,...
Over the years, I’ve thought on and off about silence in the context of digital media. Mostly, this has taken the form of commending what ca...
Back in 2019, Colin Horgan published an essay discussing the role of convenience in shaping our techno-social order. “It’s convenience, and...
If you’ve joined the Convivial Society over the past two or three months, this installment requires a brief introduction. I’m always ready t...
Welcome to an unusually brief installment of the Convivial Society. An analogy came to mind, and you can tell me what you think. I vowed to...
“To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,and find that the dark, too, blooms and sin...
Last Wednesday, I was working on the draft of a newsletter I had intended to send out later in the week. Of course, that was before my Twitt...
“Existence in a society that has become a system finds the senses useless precisely because of the very instruments designed for their exten...
“All technical progress exacts a price. We cannot believe that Technique brings us nothing; but we must not think that what it brings it bri...
You can listen to an audio version of the essay by clicking Play above. Jane Jacobs opened her mid-twentieth century classic, The Death and...
“To be sane in a mad timeis bad for the brain, or worsefor the heart.” — Wendell Berry, “The Mad Farmer Manifesto: The First Amendment” I’ve...
“I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality. A practice of hospitality— recovering threshold, t...
This summer, as it became evident that the global pandemic was exposing the weaknesses of many of our institutions, it seemed like an auspic...
“The substance of the good life must be taken into consideration if radical political reform is to become a live option.”— Albert Borgmann,...
It was my pleasure back in June to enjoy a conversation with Carl Mitcham about the life and work of Ivan Illich. A couple of weeks ago, I h...
“People can change, but only within bounds. In contrast, the present industrial system is dynamically unstable. It is organized for indefini...
“There are two ranges in the growth of tools: the range within which machines are used to extend human capability and the range in which the...
“I believe that a desirable future depends on our deliberately choosing a life of action over a life of consumption, on our engendering a li...
We are presently in the midst of another wave of free speech/cancellation discourse, this one prompted by an open letter published in Harper...
In addition to my scribblings here and elsewhere, I occasionally give talks about the role technology plays in our private and social lives....
“Never has the individual been so completely delivered up to a blind collectivity, and never have men been less capable, not only of subordi...
Hello everyone, First off, that was a great first thread on Tools for Conviviality . Secondly, for session two, we’ll have our synchronous d...