The Convivial Society Podcast
1) Secularization Comes For the Religion of Technology (Audio Version)
Hello all, The audio version keep coming. Here you have the audio for Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology. Below you’ll find a couple of paintings that I cite in the essay. Thanks for ...Show More
2) Vision Con (Audio Version)
I continue to catch up on supplying audio versions of past essays. Here you have the audio for “Vision Con,” an essay about Apple’s mixed reality headset originally published in early February. The ai...Show More
3) Learning to Receive the Day (Audio Version)
Just before my unexpected hiatus during the latter part of last year, I had gotten back to the practice of recording audio version of my essays. Now that we’re up and running again, I wanted to get ba...Show More
4) Embrace Your Crookedness (Audio Version)
At long last, the audio version of the Convivial Society returns. It’s been a long time, which I do regret. Going back to 2020, it had been my practice to include an audio version of the essay with th...Show More
5) Year End Miscellany and "What You Get Is the World" (Audio Version)
Welcome back to the Convivial Society. In this installment, you’ll find the audio version of the latest essay, “What You Get Is the World.” I try to record an audio version of most installments, but I...Show More
6) "Lonely Surfaces" (Audio Version)
Welcome again to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. This post features the audio version of the essay that went out in the last installment: “Lonely Surfaces: On AI-gene...Show More
7) "The Pathologies of the Attention Economy" (Audio), Links, Miscellany
Welcome back to the Convivial Society. In this installment, you’ll find the audio version of two recent posts: “The Pathologies of the Attention Economy” and “Impoverished Emotional Lives.” I’ve not c...Show More
8) Taking Stock of Our Technological Liturgies
Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. In this installment, I explore a somewhat eccentric frame by which to consider how we relate to our technologies, particula...Show More
9) What Is To Be Done? Audio Version
This is the audio version of the last essay posted a couple of days ago, “What Is To Be Done? — Fragments.” It was a long time between installments of the newsletter, and it has been an even longer st...Show More
10) Audio Version: "LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment"
Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. This is the audio version of the last installment, which focused on the Blake Lemoine/LaMDA affair. I argued that while LaM...Show More