A Forgotten Prophet Whose Time Has Come
Ivan Illich’s radical critique of our modern certitudes resonates loudly amid today’s crises.
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Ivan Illich’s radical critique of our modern certitudes resonates loudly amid today’s crises.
This is the place, I want to say, where work which has no obvious or direct connection to the suffering, cruelty and injustice in our news feeds may nonetheless be part of what is called for in response.
John Parman revisits influential architectural writers of the 1960s and 1970s and how they relate to current issues of adding density in urban contexts.
The Convivial Society: Vol. 2, No. 22
The Convivial Society The Convivial Society: Vol. 2, No. 6 -18:44 “Attention discourse” is how I usually refer to the proliferation of essays, articles, talks, and books around the problem of attention (or, alternatively, distraction) in the age of digital media. While there have been important precursors to digital age attention discourse dating back to the 19th century, I’d say the present iteration probably kicked off around 2008 with Nick Carr’s essay in the Atlantic, “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” And while disinformation discourse has supplanted its place in the public im...