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The Ignored Faces of Homelessness: A Review of <em>There Is No Place for Us</em>
United States · United States

The Ignored Faces of Homelessness: A Review of <em>There Is No Place for Us</em>

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Imagine waking up one day and, on your usual commute to work, finding yourself involved in a minor traffic accident. Nobody is seriously injured, thank God. But you spend the rest of the morning on the phone with a friendly State Farm representative named Natalia sorting out your insurance claim. Then you head over to the local Enterprise, where a helpful employee by the name of Maurice gets your rental car ready. Would it ever occur to you that…See the Story
The Land Ethic for AI
Artificial Intelligence · Madison

The Land Ethic for AI

(Front Porch Republic) – One does not need too much imagination to understand how Leopold’s critique of over-mechanized hunting is generalizable to the relationship between technology and all facets of life. In the case of large language models and their rise, the local knowledge being threatened is writing, rhetoric, and cognition itself. There is something crucial but ineffable about the role these processes play in our society, the latter act…See the Story
The Abolition of the Human
Washington State · Washington

The Abolition of the Human

“A culture that loses its sense of sacrum, loses its sense entirely.” Leszek Kołakowski The poets were assembled in a windowless classroom. ENGL 3753: Poetry Workshop. It was one of the few English courses left standing in the aftermath of COVID. We had toured Mary Oliver’s Rules for the Dance and were now gleaning inspiration from a mediocre anthology assigned to keep costs low for thrift-minded undergrads. We read Emily Dickinson aloud and con…Read Article

Happy are Those who Know the Causes of Things: Recovering Aristotle’s Four Causes

When teaching middle school, I often had reason to doubt Aristotle’s maxim, “all men by nature desire knowledge.” Generally, however, we do long to know things. Aristotle also claimed that to know a thing, we must identify its causes. In providing for the knowledge of a thing, Aristotle identified four causes. However, modern science only recognizes two of these and has thus impoverished our approach to the world. In order to fully grasp all tha…Read Article

Thoreau and the Eco-Puritans of Concord

I first read the Puritans while in eighth grade. My introduction was a short book entitled The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment. I hated it. Soon after, I read Walden and I loved it. Since, I have read other works of Puritan literature and my appreciation for the genre has grown while my love of Walden has remained.  However, through my high school career I found my affinity for both Thoreau and the Puritans to be thought of by many as incomp…Concord, Massachusetts · ConcordRead Article

What Do Clare Morell and Chuck Magill Have in Common?

Tech skeptics like to use Romantic imagery. Thoreau at Walden. The Inklings in a smoke-filled room of The Eagle and Child pub. Nineteenth century pastoral paintings. When they are trying to explain the humane conditions they dream of, they inevitably look backwards. They often get mocked for fetishizing the Amish, chided for their holier-than-thou pronouncements, or merely dismissed for their hysteria. Because, of course, we don’t live in 1845 w…Artificial Intelligence · AlbuquerqueRead Article

An Economist’s Take on the Age of AI: A Review of Robert Skidelsky’s <em>Mindless</em>

Internationally recognized economic historian Robert Skidelsky has thrown his hat into the ring on the question of AI and the future of civilization. Mindless: The Human Condition in the Age of Artificial Intelligence is a sweeping treatment of the history of economic change and technological advancements and how such things intersect with political and religious systems, art and literature, and human nature itself. Skidelsky’s expertise is on f…Artificial Intelligence · CoventryRead Article

Despair Is Part of Life, but Not All of Life

“I’m thinking I might end my life. I’m calling because, well, I don’t know really, but I’m calling.” A voice on the phone identifies herself as Barbara and responds to my despair: “I’m here. You’re not alone.” I’ll never forget those words. My family wants nothing to do with me, save for one aunt, plain-spoken and compassionate. But my parents and siblings don’t return calls or emails or handwritten letters. Who can blame them? I’ve been on the …United States · United StatesRead Article

What We Forgot About Death (And Life)

Dying is one of the constants in human history. So central is death that it once warranted its own art: the ars moriendi, the art of dying. Originating in the late medieval Christian tradition, the ars moriendi sought to prepare individuals for a good and holy death, facing mortality not with fear but with faith, hope, and love. At its heart lies the conviction that how one dies reveals, more than anything else, how one has lived. Yet the Christ…Andalusia, Spain · AndalusiaSee the Story

Compound Interest in an Attention Economy

There is a passage at the end of Nathan Hill’s 2024 novel Wellness in which Hill’s protagonist, the photographer and art professor Jack Baker, reflects on the unique nature of his photography, which he develops “not with pigment but with time.” By using already exposed film as his medium, and by allowing various chemicals to interact with the aging film, Baker is able to create fascinating and otherwise unimaginable images that represent “the hi…Photography · New HavenRead Article

Identity, Mundanity, and Vaccines

I’ll be taking the next three weeks off all things digital. These weekly posts should resume when I return. “Seventeen Theses on Writing and Place.” Matt Miller articulates some truths about language and place, e.g.: “Places can fail people, but far more frequently the failure goes the other way around. When a place fails to meet our needs, it is often because someone first failed to concern themselves with the needs of the place.” “Communicatio…Vaccines · WashingtonRead Article

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