L. M. Sacasas

A writer and scholar who explores the intersection of technology, culture, and ethics from a critical perspective in his newsletter, 'The Convivial Society'.

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"Expect the end of the world. Laugh."

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 9

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Names, Sabbath, Universities, Bookstores, etc.

The Convivial Society's Commonplace Book, No. 1

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What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 8

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A Note of Thanks

Plus notice of an opt-in experiment

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Feeding on Illusions

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 7

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Friendship Suffices

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 6

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Your AI Is Not a Tool

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 5

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AI Is Not Conscious, But It Is Becoming Our Unconscious

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 4

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Do Not Resign From Life

The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No.

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Owning Our Words: Sounding the Depths of Language

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 2

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Waiting Is a Revelation

The Convivial Society: Vol. 7, No. 1

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Manufactured Inevitability and the Need for Courage

The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 3

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Out of the Wilderness

In hope

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The Waters of Lethe Flow From Our Digital Streams

The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 2

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The Cat in the Tree: Why AI Content Leaves Us Cold

The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 1

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Life Cannot Be Delegated

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 15

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To Hell With Good Intentions, Silicon Valley Edition

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 14

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The Enclosure of the Human Psyche

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 13

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Amulets Against the Spirits of the Age

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 12

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If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 11

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Embracing Sub-Optimal Relationships

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 10

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Re-sourcing the Mind

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No.

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The Work of Art

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 8

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The Stuff of (a Well-Lived) Life

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 7

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The Ambling Mind

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 6

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Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 5

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Audio Versions Are Back

A Convivial Society Update

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Secularization Comes For the Religion of Technology (Audio Version)

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 3

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Vision Con (Audio Version)

The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 2 (supplement)

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"From a certain vantage point then, crookedness begins to feel a bit like the th

"From a certain vantage point then, crookedness begins to feel a bit like the thing in us that keeps us from being wholly predictable and subject to administration, all that is not regular, uniform, unsurprising, interchangeable." https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/embrace-your-crookedness

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The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 12 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p

The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 12 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/render-unto-the-machine?sd=pf

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Latest newsletter on the temptation to confuse control for care ... https://thec

Latest newsletter on the temptation to confuse control for care ... https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/care-not-control

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"In short, it suggested the possibility that the worst thing about the age of di

"In short, it suggested the possibility that the worst thing about the age of digital media will turn out to be how hard it became to look one another in the eye." https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/eye-to-eye

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Latest installment of the newsletter. https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p

Latest installment of the newsletter. https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-one-best-way

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Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It https://theconvivialsociety.substack

Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/waste-your-time-your-life-may-depend

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Remembering Albert Borgmann ... https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/why-a

Remembering Albert Borgmann ... https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/why-an-easier-life-is-not-necessarily

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RIP, Albert Borgmann. His work in philosophy of technology remains vital and I c

RIP, Albert Borgmann. His work in philosophy of technology remains vital and I commend it to you.

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The latest Convivial Society: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/too-man

The latest Convivial Society: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/too-many-words-and-not-enough?sd=pf

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For the latest installment of the Convivial Society I gathered some reflections

For the latest installment of the Convivial Society I gathered some reflections on AI through the lens of the "religion of technology": https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/apocalyptic-ai

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The latest newsletter ... https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/whose-time-

The latest newsletter ... https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/whose-time-which-temporality?sd=pf

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Gathered some thoughts on our information ecosystem ... https://theconvivialsoci

Gathered some thoughts on our information ecosystem ... https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/dots-will-be-connected

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"We anthropomorphize because we do not want to be alone. Now we have powerful te

"We anthropomorphize because we do not want to be alone. Now we have powerful technologies, which appear to be finely calibrated to exploit this core human desire." From the latest newsletter: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/the-prompt-box-is-a-minefield-ai

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So my completely earnest takeaway today is that if you are struggling with menta

So my completely earnest takeaway today is that if you are struggling with mental health issues or feeling psychologically vulnerable in any way you should not use the new AI-powered Bing chat tool. This has absolutely nothing to do with AI achieving sentience or anything of the sort. It is strictly an observation about how susceptible we are under certain conditions to dialog that reinforces the

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The latest newsletter, the first in a short series on language under digital con

The latest newsletter, the first in a short series on language under digital conditions. https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/language-under-digital-conditions

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This is Neil Postman in talk from 1990. About right, no?

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Here's the latest newsletter installment: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.c

Here's the latest newsletter installment: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-you-get-is-the-world

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Finally wrote about AI-generated images ... https://theconvivialsociety.substack

Finally wrote about AI-generated images ... https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/lonely-surfaces-on-ai-generated-images

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The Convivial Society, Vol. 3, No. 19 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p

The Convivial Society, Vol. 3, No. 19 https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/reading-as-counter-practice?sd=pf

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The latest newsletter ... https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/on-two-ways

The latest newsletter ... https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/on-two-ways-of-relating-to-the-world?sd=pf

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