Brandon Marcus

McLuhan used “media” broadly, to include any tools, technologies, or interfaces that mediate our interactions with environments. According to him, “Al

The telegraph, radio, and TV formed a clear progression: they extended the central nervous system into the world through wires, each step bringing com

In short, curiosity puts the entire brain into a mode of heightened receptivity — not just for the specific thing you want to know but also for everyt

generative AI is the latest and furthest node on a spectrum of industrial technologies that have an explicit (but most-often unstated) purpose of dest

Information and attention: A century in which the key to human history is not how the economy grew, but rather how humans learned to give attention to

Iris Murdoch, who extended Weil’s thinking into moral philosophy, made this point explicit in The Sovereignty of Good: the quality of our attention de

Murdoch suggests that the ego makes it difficult to properly attend to one another. We often fail to see others adequately because the ego gets in the

what gives categories their authority—what makes them appear natural to us—is the fact that they are collectively crafted, sustained, and enforced. Th