Welcome to our new blog series: “Media Are Elemental.”
A philosophy of elemental media will need to take up the cause of the gerund.
Eliot credits Dostoevsky with peering into the abyss at least as intently as Freud and his acolytes did, but nevertheless coming away from the experience with a richer, fuller, and, yes, deeper understanding of human psychology.
Noteworthy reads from the last week.
While today’s neoliberalism is excoriated for its contribution to inequality (particularly in economic terms), the other neoliberals demonstrated a fondness for compulsory national service and even a return to the military draft as a means to bridge divisions in our society.
Sherry Turkle believes that our “capacity for solitude” is undercut by picking up the phone and checking our email.