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The Convivial Society

L. M. Sacasas

Audio version of The Convivial Society, a newsletter exploring the intersections of technology, society, and the moral life. theconvivialsociety.substack.com

Episodes

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Secularization Comes For the Religion of Technology (Audio Version)

Hello all, The audio version keep coming. Here you have the audio for Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology . Below you’ll fin...

32:24Mar 8, 2024

Vision Con (Audio Version)

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...

15:25Mar 6, 2024

Learning to Receive the Day (Audio Version)

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...

10:14Mar 4, 2024

Embrace Your Crookedness (Audio Version)

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...

13:34Aug 1, 2023

Year End Miscellany and "What You Get Is the World" (Audio Version)

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.”...

14:29Dec 31, 2022

"Lonely Surfaces" (Audio Version)

Welcome again to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. This post features the audio version of the essay that w...

21:16Dec 14, 2022

"The Pathologies of the Attention Economy" (Audio), Links, Miscellany

Welcome back to the Convivial Society . In this installment, you’ll find the audio version of two recent posts: “The Pathologies of the Atte...

23:01Oct 7, 2022

Taking Stock of Our Technological Liturgies

Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. In this installment, I explore a somewhat eccentric frame by w...

11:23Sep 15, 2022

What Is To Be Done? Audio Version

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...

20:24Sep 2, 2022

Audio Version: "LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment"

Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. This is the audio version of the last installment, which focus...

16:39Jul 1, 2022

The Meta-Positioning Habit of Mind

Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter exploring the relationship between technology and culture. This is what counts as a relative...

13:11May 23, 2022

The Myth of the Machine

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...

21:42May 19, 2022

"The Face Stares Back" Audio + Links and Resources

Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology, culture, and the moral life. In this installment you’ll find the audio ver...

13:38Apr 8, 2022

The Uncanny Gaze of the Machine

Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. The pace of the newsletter has been slow of late, which I regr...

23:48Mar 29, 2022

Attending to the World

Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter that is ostensibly about technology and culture but more like my effort to make some sense o...

32:28Feb 20, 2022

"Dream of Virtual Reality" Audio Version AND Some Links For Your Consideration

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...

20:34Jan 28, 2022

Understanding McLuhan: A Conversation with Andrew McLuhan

Welcome to a special installment of the Convivial Society featuring my conversation with Andrew McLuhan. I can’t recall how or when I first...

64:44Jan 7, 2022

You Can't Optimize For Rest

Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. In this installment I write a bit about burnout, exhaustion, a...

17:10Dec 1, 2021

Pity, Power, and Presence

Welcome again to the Convivial Society . This installment follows relatively quickly on the last, and you may be forgiven for not having yet...

18:39Oct 11, 2021

A World Ordered Only By Search

Welcome to the Convivial Society , a newsletter about technology and culture. It’s been a bit longer than usual since our last installment,...

28:59Oct 7, 2021