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Nature of the Universe (TANSTAAFL)
Löwy Juval • Righting Software
Die Welt als Resonanzpunkt
Hartmut Rosa • Unverfügbarkeit
Rituals stabilize life. To
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
ours is an era of decline that has turned from the outward to the inward obsession with identity and “authenticity,” both personal and tribal, fueled by digital connectivity. Paradoxically, social media in this sense is antisocial, leading to the disintegration of community through a kind of connected isolation.
Nathan Gardels • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
twenty-first-century science is undermining the foundations of the liberal order.
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
What we need most are temporal structures that stabilize life. When everything is short-term, life loses all stability. Stability comes over long stretches of time: faithfulness, bonds, integrity, commitment, promises, trust.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
To paraphrase Antoine Saint-Exupéry, we may say: rituals are in life what things are in space.