Mar 3, 2021
Michael Sacasas is an independent scholar focusing on technology and culture. Michael joins Elise to talk about the way technology shapes our society. They discuss the role media can have in disintegrating a sense of the common good and why technology tends to reflect ourselves back to us. Together they ask: Is online “real life”? What constitutes reality in digital spaces? And what’s at stake when we refer to the digital as “space”?
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Digital and media environment
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Online identity formation
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Mediation
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Spatial metaphors for digital life
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Digitized relationships
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Philosophy of technology
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Temporal lag and immediacy
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Weaponization of digital memory
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Social media interfaces as “common things”
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The algorithmically mediated nature of social media
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Apathy and numbness
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Hyperreality and spectacle
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Acedia and doomscrolling
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Limits that we ought to embrace
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Making sense of the insurrection
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Narrative structure and databases
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National Mourning and public language
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Ordering our remembrances
Michael Sacasas’ newsletter, The Convivial
Society
“The Insurrection Will Be
Livestreamed” by Michael Sacasas
“The Analog City and the Digital
City” by Michael Sacasas
“Structurally Induced Acedia” by
Michael Sacasas
Nathan Jurgenson on “digital
dualism”
Postphenomenology
Evan
Selinger
Don Ihde
Peter-Paul Verbeek
Marshall McLuhan
Ivan Illich
“The Scourge of ‘Relatability’” by
Rebecca Mead
Liquid Modernity by Zygmunt
Bauman
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
The Origins of
Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
Digital humanist Corey Sparks
Vladimir Nabokov
Michel de Certeau
Alasdair MacIntyre
Commemoration of COVID-19
victims
The Need for Roots by
Simone Weil