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Modernity
Where the Magic Doesn’t Happen
How technology can interfere with moral formation at school, church, and home
Andy Crouch
Jan 02, 2025
Introduction from Jon Haidt:
In my first book, The Happiness Hypothesis , I found that ancient wisdom about human relationships, consciousness, and flourishing holds up well in light of modern psychology. But as the di... See more
How technology can interfere with moral formation at school, church, and home
Andy Crouch
Jan 02, 2025
Introduction from Jon Haidt:
In my first book, The Happiness Hypothesis , I found that ancient wisdom about human relationships, consciousness, and flourishing holds up well in light of modern psychology. But as the di... See more
Where the Magic Doesn’t Happen
“The word for world is forest” — Ursula K. Le Guin
In the late 18th century, officials in Prussia and Saxony began to rearrange their complex, diverse forests into straight rows of single-species trees. Forests had been sources of food, grazing, shelter, medicine, bedding and more for the people who lived in and around them, but to the early modern... See more
In the late 18th century, officials in Prussia and Saxony began to rearrange their complex, diverse forests into straight rows of single-species trees. Forests had been sources of food, grazing, shelter, medicine, bedding and more for the people who lived in and around them, but to the early modern... See more
Maria Farrell • We Need to Rewild the Internet
Digitally isolated
It’s can’t be connection if it leaves you alone.
A poignant depiction of the iPhone as a prison via Felipe Luchi for Go Outside Brazil.
I keep thinking about being digitally isolated. What is “digital isolation?” In a nutshell: today we are more connected to anyone/everyone than at any point in history yet
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A preview of Nicholas Carr’s new book Superbloom
Nicholas Carr
Feb 03, 2025
Introduction from Jon Haidt:
There’s a story I often tell to explain how we got into this mess––how we let a few tech companies take over childhood, making it passive, solitary, and monetizable. The story begins i
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Capitalism, Necromancy, and the Dark Side of Nostalgia
River Quintana
Feb 09, 2024
Some of the sources of Pop Art VI, Peter Blake
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Capitalism, it seems, can’t let go of the past. Like a necromancer, it reanimates the corpses of bygone trends, ideologies, and aesthetics, then sells them back to us at a markup. This “capit... See more
Capitalism, Necromancy, and the Dark Side of Nostalgia
River Quintana
Feb 09, 2024
Some of the sources of Pop Art VI, Peter Blake
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Capitalism, it seems, can’t let go of the past. Like a necromancer, it reanimates the corpses of bygone trends, ideologies, and aesthetics, then sells them back to us at a markup. This “capit... See more
The Cult of Yesterday
Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world
A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started already...
Rebecca Solnit
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A population numbed, dazed, present-but-not-present – had it happened overnight it would be a sci-fi horror movie. And if you looked up from your phone for long enough, you might notice it’s started already...
Rebecca Solnit
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Rebecca Solnit • Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be – Rebecca Solnit on our dangerously disconnected world
the quiet rebellion of a little life
caitlyn
Dec 09, 2024
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there’s a pervasive myth that has seeped into every corner of our current reality claiming that in order to have a meaningful life, we’re told that worth is measured in titles, achievements, and the scope of our influence. it’s a myth that demands endless striving, as though the only liv... See more
caitlyn
Dec 09, 2024
hello.
there’s a pervasive myth that has seeped into every corner of our current reality claiming that in order to have a meaningful life, we’re told that worth is measured in titles, achievements, and the scope of our influence. it’s a myth that demands endless striving, as though the only liv... See more
Caitlyn Richardson • the quiet rebellion of a little life
The Internet’s Lonely Urban Design
The Information Superhighway paved over Virtual Villages; can we bring them back?
Keaton Brandt
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Jan 28, 2024
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In the beginning, the internet resembled a quaint village where everybody knew your name. It was largely self-governing and self-policing, with its own norms and customs. Like many i... See more
The Information Superhighway paved over Virtual Villages; can we bring them back?
Keaton Brandt
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12 min read
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Jan 28, 2024
1.94K
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In the beginning, the internet resembled a quaint village where everybody knew your name. It was largely self-governing and self-policing, with its own norms and customs. Like many i... See more
Keaton Brandt • The Internet’s Lonely Urban Design
How to Live in a Digital CityWhat we can learn from real-life urbanization to improve online livingBy Megan Garber and Andrea ValdezIllustration by The Atlantic. Source: Corbis / Getty.May 20, 2024 ShareSave While the vibrance, innovation, and cacophony of online life can feel completely unlike anything humanity has ever created before, its newness... See more