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Like science fiction writer Ted Chiang said in an interview with journalist Ezra Klein, “Most of our fears or anxieties about technology are best understood as fears or anxiety about how capitalism will use technology against us.” The challenge, then, is how to disentangle the two.
Take Back the Future!
Jasmine Sun
By observing the words our mind is speaking to us, we are actively separating from our thoughts, getting them out in front of us, into view—creating an us and an it. In so doing, we’re shifting our perspective so we are now the awareness that sees the thoughts, while the thoughts become objects appearing in front of and within us.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
Félix Ravaisson, the vitalist philosopher whose Of Habit remains one of the most in-depth treatises on the phenomenon, deems habit a form of grace, one that allows humans, who are burdened with consciousness and will, to take part in the spontaneity of the natural world.
Routine Maintenance, by Meghan O’Gieblyn
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