Carr, Sacasas, and eloquent reality — Brad East
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
L. M. Sacasastheconvivialsociety.substack.comBut one of the unintended consequences of the Protestant Reformation, Taylor argues, was a disenchantment of the world. Critical of the ways such an enchanted, sacramental understanding of the world had lapsed into sheer superstition, the later Reformers emphasized the simple hearing of the Word, the message of the gospel, and the arid simplicity o
... See moreJames K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
I’ve stood sentinel, I confess. Feeling at once the draw of the spectacle and the urge to bear witness, knowing, to some degree, the evident limits of both, and trying to embrace my own distinction between, on the one hand, having my attention captured and, on the other, attending to the world.
L. M. Sacasas • Laughter In Dark Times
It is a faith partly held in place, I’m suggesting, by our ever-growing participation with screens of all kinds, by our steady subjection to flat representations and spectacles.
David Abram • Becoming Animal
In a walk through the woods, I’m engaged in certain kind of mostly pre-conscious interpretative work—reading the landscape, we might say. Walking through a museum, on the other hand, involves interpretative work of a different and more conscious nature. To the degree that our experience is mediated by digital devices, it takes on the quality of a w... See more