Sublime

fragmentation of the social sense-making and collective action capacity

He regularly invited top computer scientists to his office to explain emerging trends in hardware and software. He had three home computers. He was typing a future bestseller, Earth in the Balance, on an early laptop. He went to computer-industry conferences, wrote articles for Scientific American, and fluently spoke the language of VLSI and AI,

If we are to rehabilitate progress, Enlightenment, modernity, growth and ambition—prometheanism—we need to ask where the left took a wrong turn. And when we do, we cannot avoid the recognition that Theodor Adorno and Max Horkheimer’s Dialectic of Enlightenment, completed in 1944 and published in 1947—one of the seminal texts of critical theory and

the indeterminacy of it all appeals to me.