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"There is absolutely no inevitability as long as there is a willingness to contemplate what is happening." – Marshall McLuhan The blog is now out of commission, but I continue to write The Convivial Society, a regular newsletter on technology and culture. You can subscribe here.
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Destructive Scale
In Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich notes some of what had been concluded by 1970 through the research conducted at the Center for Intercultural Documentation (CIDOC) in Cuernavaca, Mexico, whic…
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Walter Ong on Romanticism and Technology (2014)
The following excerpts are taken from an article by Walter Ong titled, "Romantic Difference and Technology." The essay can be found in Ong'sRhetoric, Romance, and Technology: Stu…
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The Best of "The Frailest Thing"
As promised in the last post, I've put together what you might think of as a "best of" collection-The Frailest Thing: Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology. It is an e-book consisting of 100 entries written over the span of this blog's his
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The Frailest Thing Is Dead
Dear readers, In the early years of this blog, I made it a practice to post something thematic on Thanksgiving Day. I thought it might be apropos to revive that practice today with a twofold purpose. First, to let you know that, having thought through the
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Nine Theses Regarding the Culture of Digital Media
1. The context of oral communication is one's immediate audience characterized by precisely delineated embodied presence. The context of print is a discursively constituted individual interiority. The context of digital communication is disembodied immedi
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