L.M. Sacasas | Technology, Culture, and Ethics

As promised in the last post, I’ve put together what you might think of as a “best of” collection—The Frailest Thing: Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology.
It is an e-book consisting of 100 entries written over the span of this blog’s history. These entries amount to a little over 10% of what I wrote here over the years. I think they still hold up pretty well. Of course, a few of these are quite recent...

Dear readers,
In the early years of this blog, I made it a practice to post something thematic on Thanksgiving Day. I thought it might be apropos to revive that practice today with a twofold purpose.
First, to let you know that, having thought through the matter for some time, I’ve decided to bring The Frailest Thing to an end....

1. The context of oral communication is one’s immediate audience characterized by precisely delineated embodied presence. The context of print is a discursively constituted individual interiority. The context of digital communication is disembodied immediacy...

Not much has been going on here for the past four months or so. Not sure that will be changing anytime soon, but I did want to let you all know about a conference at which I’ll be speaking this coming Friday just in case you happen to be in or near Washington...