Stories of Our Moral Deformation
We are a deeply enmeshed republic of physiological, emotional and symbolic systems whose interactions can be thrown into disorder with frightening ease. Our story about our struggles and our suffering needs to try to capture this complexity, and how it will show up differently in every case.
Vincent Deary • How We Break
Looking toward a post-pandemic politics, the problem of over-individuation within the systems we use to model ourselves is compounded by the physical isolation each of us experiences in extended rhythms of lockdown. The situation has brought new cultural and interpersonal realities, many of them unfamiliar and uncomfortable, such as the tense... See more
Benjamin H. Bratton • Touchlessness
The pandemic revealed the fractures, biases, and inadequacies of our social systems. Education was not immune.