Join 📚 J'S Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what J's read, .
As John Culkin, one of the fathers of media theory, explained in an article about Marshall McLuhan, “We become what we behold. We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.”
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
AI, and computationalism, in general, imposes that hegemony, insisting that all meanings can be communicated, and everything can be represented as data. But from the Kantian perspective, “the ideal of communication, of making oneself completely understood socially, requires the social acknowledgement of what cannot be made explicit in communication.” What is forgotten in reification must be retained or restored. “We have art,” Bernstein suggests, “because our ordinary communications fail to communicate what is most important to us.”
Epic Forgetting
Rob Horning
Ideas fly in flocks. To hold one idea in mind means to hold a cloud of them.
What Technology Wants
Kevin Kelly
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise