Spiritual Formation in an Autocomplete World
Remove enough friction and you don’t have a more efficient formation process. You have no formation process. You have content delivery.
Subjects of the Machine and the Spirit of Revolt: A Review of Paul Kingsnorth’s Latest Book
Against the Machine is not just a complaint about technological fetishism and overreach. The Machine is also within us.
Poor Things and the Pursuit of Pleasure
Poor Things reflects a dark and scathing image of our world, of our disordered longings, and of the quest to satisfy them.
70 Years with Big G — Part Two: Judgment and Consequences in the Heisei Era
The Heisei Era films reflect a society aware of the complex relationship between human innovation and its unintended side effects.
M3GAN and Attachment Theory
M3GAN’s warning works because everyone in the theater already realizes that their kids are spending too much time on screens.
1993 Film Favorites, Part 1: The Technology and Ethics of Jurassic Park
Ellie’s establishing boundaries on technology and Malcolm’s call to behave ethically in meekness are some of the best takeaways the film has to offer.
Kogonada’s After Yang Imagines a Way Beyond Tech Consumerism
After Yang offers a refreshing, compassionate perspective on how technology might make our world more human instead of less.
Grace for the Classzoom: Schooling in a Pandemic
In a pandemic, how can we foster the community so crucial for education?
Virtual Reality was Virtually Real, for About Five Minutes in the Nineties
Ultimately, the problem with VR was that it, like so much that happened in the nineties, put technology ahead of content.
Don’t Get Fooled Again: On MIDI 2.0 and the Reality of What We Hear
If there’s anything we’re capable of, it’s getting creative with power. And the power over what appears to be truth is a terrible power indeed.
The Ubiquitous Google, the Omnipresent God, and the Wisdom to Know the Difference
Tyranny comes in many forms, but the most abiding characteristic of tyrants is that they enslave with indifference.
The Blessed Machine and the Dangers of Technology
The author of a new graphic novel from Cave Pictures Publishing explains how E. M. Forster and the CERN super collider inspired his work.
Transcendent Narrative in the Age of Hacking
Is free will just an artifice of Christian theology, not a scientific reality?
Lamenting the Death of the Small iPhone
Choosing the iPhone SE was a way for me to practice the spiritual discipline of simplicity.
Gen Z’s Biggest Legacy: Has Social Media Hacked a Generation?
Gen Z stumbled into social media blindly, but now we’re tasked with the responsibility of making sure that everything what happened to us doesn’t happen to our own kids.
Persuasion 134: Alexa Obeys My Every Command and So Should You
In this episode of Persuasion, Erin Straza and Hannah Anderson consider the ways that our modern communication styles are shaping the way we think and talk. Will Alexa give us practice using our commanding voice? Will it cause us to forget social graces?
