Brad, your work on technology and politics intersects with my own, although I'm a bit more steeped in theoretical traditions which the Right is allergic to (continental philosophy, critical theory, anarchism, Marxism), which I try to understand and appropriate. If you ever want a conversation partner or sounding board, let me know.
Exciting news! The proposal looks incredible. I just keep thinking of Neil Postman, who I wish were still alive. I’ve read Technopoly twice in the last two years, Amusing Ourselves to Death once. Those are great examples of books on tech that, while dated, still speak to our present age. Sounds like you guys will do well carrying the mantle :)
Yes, very exciting news - congratulations! My absolute favorite part of the original iThink Therefore iAm essay were those pillars of conservatism. That was a unique distinction from many of the tech discourse I've seen, naming more precisely what's being eroded.
*and Katelyn, I have a whole, lengthy draft of a piece thinking through Postman's Technopoly chapter on medicine. (Maybe a version of it will see the light of day, but was originally written for a book read-through no longer happening!)
Very much looking forward to reading this book. I'm interested in tech in education; I recently read what MacKenzie Price, founder of Alpha School said: she claimed that "Digital Natives" are a "new category of human" and therefore we need a new type of education for them. Enter: her (very expensive) private schools, where all academics are completed in 2 hours via AI-run apps. (This may be outside the scope of your book, but it is definitely related).
The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life by Lowry Pressly.
I have to say that the title iThink therefore Iam is cheesy and won’t give the work lasting appeal. Identifies the book as clickbait critique as opposed to unitive conservstive vision.
Brad - This looks great! Congrats on the new book project. In Are We All Cyborgs Now? (https://www.amazon.com/Are-All-Cyborgs-Now-Reclaiming/dp/B0DDKYLNP4) Robin Phillips and I explore a lot of this landscape as well. I love that you are going to build on Carl Trueman's framework. In Chapter 5 of Are We All Cyborgs Now? we build on Trueman's framework of the pyschologized, sexualized, politicized self by adding the term digitized to his list. The digital habitat has formed and shaped our sense of self and made certain things plausible, possible, and palatable, giving us the daily experience of control and autonomy and self-creation that feeds expressive individualism. I hope Robin and I's book can be a conversation partner for your project.
Brad, your work on technology and politics intersects with my own, although I'm a bit more steeped in theoretical traditions which the Right is allergic to (continental philosophy, critical theory, anarchism, Marxism), which I try to understand and appropriate. If you ever want a conversation partner or sounding board, let me know.
Exciting news! The proposal looks incredible. I just keep thinking of Neil Postman, who I wish were still alive. I’ve read Technopoly twice in the last two years, Amusing Ourselves to Death once. Those are great examples of books on tech that, while dated, still speak to our present age. Sounds like you guys will do well carrying the mantle :)
Yes, very exciting news - congratulations! My absolute favorite part of the original iThink Therefore iAm essay were those pillars of conservatism. That was a unique distinction from many of the tech discourse I've seen, naming more precisely what's being eroded.
*and Katelyn, I have a whole, lengthy draft of a piece thinking through Postman's Technopoly chapter on medicine. (Maybe a version of it will see the light of day, but was originally written for a book read-through no longer happening!)
Very much looking forward to reading this book. I'm interested in tech in education; I recently read what MacKenzie Price, founder of Alpha School said: she claimed that "Digital Natives" are a "new category of human" and therefore we need a new type of education for them. Enter: her (very expensive) private schools, where all academics are completed in 2 hours via AI-run apps. (This may be outside the scope of your book, but it is definitely related).
Perhaps also look at
The Right to Oblivion: Privacy and the Good Life by Lowry Pressly.
I have to say that the title iThink therefore Iam is cheesy and won’t give the work lasting appeal. Identifies the book as clickbait critique as opposed to unitive conservstive vision.
Brad - This looks great! Congrats on the new book project. In Are We All Cyborgs Now? (https://www.amazon.com/Are-All-Cyborgs-Now-Reclaiming/dp/B0DDKYLNP4) Robin Phillips and I explore a lot of this landscape as well. I love that you are going to build on Carl Trueman's framework. In Chapter 5 of Are We All Cyborgs Now? we build on Trueman's framework of the pyschologized, sexualized, politicized self by adding the term digitized to his list. The digital habitat has formed and shaped our sense of self and made certain things plausible, possible, and palatable, giving us the daily experience of control and autonomy and self-creation that feeds expressive individualism. I hope Robin and I's book can be a conversation partner for your project.