This is quite the paragraph from Hannah Arendt’s acceptance speech for Denmark’s Sonning Prize in 1975.

'Vibes' are the unit of measurement for perception when you've technologically extend your nervous system beyond the body.

That's McLuhan in Understanding Media 👇

Just stumbled on this 1990 Publisher's Weekly review listed on the Amazon page for the book that somehow got posted with the editor's notes for revision still tagged on to the end. Sorry to see the Dracula reference get cut!

Taking a walk with my kids today when one of them noticed this charming cat painted where a limb had been cut off an oak and all I could think was that I would take this, and the spirit that inspired it, over every AI-generated image or video I've ever seen.

Lewis Mumford, "Authoritarian and Democratic Technics." Written 50 years ago, still relevant.

Marilynne Robinson, "Language Is Smarter Than We Are" (1987).

www.nytimes.com/1987/01/11/b...

Stumbled on this letter from Tolkien to Auden today. There's a wealth of wisdom latent in these lines—for writing and for living.

More to be said, but two things worth noting here. First, this framing obscures the human actors pushing the "transformation." Second, we could do without the combat metaphors for education.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/20/o...

"I always thought that one has got to start thinking as though nobody had thought before, and then start learning from everybody else.”

— Hannah Arendt, in conversation with Hans Jonas