Fantasy and the Buffered Self
That’s the title of my New Atlantis essay, now available in full online. Please check it out, and if you’d...
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technocracy
This is one of the first references I can find to the word “technocracy.” (The only earlier...
Christianity and the Book
Next academic year I will be leading a faculty seminar here at Wheaton on Christianity and the Book: Histories and...
posts unwritten, end-of-year edition
Looking at my Pinboard and Instapaper pages — how I love those tools — I see so many stories I want to blog about...
opting out, revisited
Regular readers, if I have any regular readers, will know that this is the kind of thing I strongly disagree with:...
the saddest thing I have read in some time
Arikia Millikan: Now, I am always connected to the Web. The rare exceptions to the rule cause excruciating anxiety. I...
adding to the tech canon
The Atlantic Tech Canon is fab, but rather skewed towards the present day. I’d like to suggest a few items from...
heed the Marxist critique
Kevin Kelly has a book coming out soon called What Technology Wants. Kevin, meet Leo Marx: We amplify the hazardous...
one vision of the digital humanities
From the Chronicle of Higher Education, an overview of Franco Moretti’s lab at Stanford, devoted to quantitative work...
new directions
Victor Keegan: My second book, Big Bang, was published as a real book but launched in the virtual world Second Life...