River Kenna
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River Kenna
Deep Humanities
Exploring the role of humanities and arts in the face of technological advancements, with a focus on deep interdisciplinary engagement, ethics, bias, and redefining human-machine relationships.
sjsu.eduIn the age of digital overflow, simplicity isn't just about decluttering
It's about aligning every bit of information we consume with purposeful action
If you don’t have the ocean waiting to crush you, or a puma stalking you through the forest, you have to manufacture your own sense of stakes, of generative urgency.
“His three Eras or Dominants are: (1) the Old Dominant of religion, which he associates with the way of knowing called belief and the professionalism of priests; (2) the present Dominant of materialistic science, which he associates with the way of knowing called explanation and the professionalism of scientists; and (3) the New Dominant of what he... See more
The Failure Mode of the Journey is to Be Certain You've Arrived
River Kennainthewilderless.substack.com
The only sin is to exit The Dynamic
Into the Psychozoic
open.substack.com
Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a Gothic church beaming serenity into you—that is input too.
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to m... See more
At the same time, you are also sending output to other nodes. Now, I am sending these ideas into my pocket notebook, which will send them to m... See more
Henrik Karlsson • First We Shape Our Social Graph; Then It Shapes Us
This is, as I see it, the core characteristic of the Anthropocene: the human psyche has become one of the most powerful forces we know of, but we’re still terribly clumsy novices with it. We can start out with a desire to sell more cotton, and before you know it, an ecosystem has vanished and we’ve got skyrocketing rates of esophageal cancer.