Hello all, The audio version keep coming. Here you have the audio for Secularization Comes for the Religion of Technology. Below youll find a couple of paintings that I cite in the essay. Thanks for listening. Hope you enjoy it.Cheers,Michael Get full a

I continue to catch up on supplying audio versions of past essays. Here you have the audio for Vision Con, an essay about Apples mixed reality headset originally published in early February. The aim is to get caught up and then post the audio version e

Just before my unexpected hiatus during the latter part of last year, I had gotten back to the practice of recording audio version of my essays. Now that were up and running again, I wanted to get back to these recordings as well, beginning with this rec

At long last, the audio version of the Convivial Society returns. Its been a long time, which I do regret. Going back to 2020, it had been my practice to include an audio version of the essay with the newsletter. The production value left a lot to be des

Welcome back to the Convivial Society. In this installment, youll find the audio version of the latest essay, What You Get Is the World. I try to record an audio version of most installments, but I send them out separately from the text version for rea

Welcome again to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. This post features the audio version of the essay that went out in the last installment: Lonely Surfaces: On AI-generated Images. For the sake of recent subscribers, Ill

Welcome back to the Convivial Society. In this installment, youll find the audio version of two recent posts: The Pathologies of the Attention Economy and Impoverished Emotional Lives. Ive not combined audio from two separate installments before, bu

Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. In this installment, I explore a somewhat eccentric frame by which to consider how we relate to our technologies, particularly those we hold close to our bodies. You’ll have to b

This is the audio version of the last essay posted a couple of days ago, What Is To Be Done? Fragments. It was a long time between installments of the newsletter, and it has been an even longer stretch since the last audio version. As I note in the au

Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. This is the audio version of the last installment, which focused on the Blake Lemoine/LaMDA affair. I argued that while LaMDA is not sentient, applications like it will push us f