Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
I too have tussled with, a decade later, in contemplating the challenge of cultivating wisdom in the age of information, particularly in a media landscape driven by commercial interest whose very business model is predicated on conditioning us to confuse information with meaning. (Why think about what constitutes a great work of art — how it moves... See more
Maria Popova • Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Good Human Being, and Her Advice to Writers
Reaper Man by Terry Pratchett: "In the Ramtop village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away—until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of... See more
Nothing Ever Stops Existing
Rituals are not solutions. They don’t “fix” things. They are how we live with what we can’t fix, channels for facing up to our finitude, the way we try to navigate this vale of tears in the meantime. But precisely for that reason they can also be conduits of hope and rhythms of covenant.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
Pay attention to what you’re paying attention to and Fractal Thinking
poetry rabbithole
Also, despite a stated rejection of techno-solutionism being the one political commitment around which a series of fractious computer science fields can rally, triumphalist narrators, like peddlers hawking their goods, still tend to elevate the technology itself as the protagonist. But technology is merely the tools and techniques marshalled by... See more
J. Khadijah Abdurahman • Letter from the Editor on Medicine and the Body in Tech
The project I'm doing is basically turning myself into a certain type of person who is able to have these thoughts. The essays are kind of just exhaust from the project. The work is growing emotionally and intellectually in such a way, and just going out into the world, talking to people, reading, looking at things, and becoming the kind of mind
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