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In Chalmers’s vision, we would, as Arendt feared, be trapped in a situation wherein we would encounter nothing but ourselves and those things some of us have made. And it would be altogether likely that we would do so while swaths of our common world increasingly became inhospitable to human life. If so, the burden will fall, as it always does, on ... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • The Dream of Virtual Reality
But today there is something far more ominous, which is the fear of youth’s disorientation.
Alain Badiou • The True Life
But truth, unlike information, has a centripetal force that holds society together. Information, on the other hand, is centrifugal, with very destructive effects on social cohesion. If we want to comprehend what kind of society we are living in, we need to understand the nature of information.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
The antidote to a meaningless and lawless existence was provided by humanism,
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
The violence of positivity does not deprive, it saturates; it does not exclude, it exhausts. That is why it proves inaccessible to unmediated perception.
Byung-Chul Han • The Burnout Society
Bits of information provide neither meaning nor orientation. They do not congeal into a narrative. They are purely additive.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
As temporal structures, rituals arrest time. Temporal spaces we can enter in celebration do not pass away. Without such temporal structures, time becomes a torrent that tears us apart from each other and away from ourselves.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
Hartmut Rosa (2016),
Steffen Mau • The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social
je pense que des relations authentiques, des amitiés authentiques et des communautés philosophiques authentiques ne sont possibles qu’à petite échelle. Le risque existe d’aboutir à une politique du bien-être technocratique et réductrice, qui remplacerait les relations par des inventaires informatisés et qui accorderait beaucoup trop d’autorité à de
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