? Is technology or culture the problem?
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The return of the visual culture at the expense of the written revives the old medieval subordination of the text to the pictorial. Although people today are not predominantly illiterate, in as much as mass schooling separates us from the Middle Ages, many utilise reading and writing for the most mundane utilitarian tasks and have turned away from
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To see to what you will despair of changing, stare at your screen.
L. M. Sacasas | Substack
Love, in this social philosophy, is something far, far beyond what “economic forces” limit us to. It is the great liberating force of the human spirit, which leads to concrete social progress. Under capitalism, I can see you as a producer, or a consumer — or even a slave or a servant — but never really as a human being. I am always just looking for
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"Our various technological prostheses become extensions of our absentmindedness as they become more refined." - Duncan Reyburn
The ongoing functionality of Wikipedia relies on an army of software agents – bots – to enforce and maintain correct formatting, build connections between articles, and moderate conflicts and incidences of vandalism. At the last survey, bots counted for seventeen of the top twenty most prolific editors and collectively make about 16 per cent of all
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