creatureliness
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The Parade to the Future
Tech criticism is seductive. Pessimism often is. The appeal of it has to do, I think, with the way these critics (people like Jacques Ellul, Neil Postman, Albert Borgmann, and others) name the dis-ease we all feel. Yet, as Alan Jacobs comments, even if the tech critics were right, “So what?” Here are some suggestions…
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Leaving Facebook
Finally, after actually months of planning to do it, I deleted my Facebook account. For whatever reason, I was dragging my feet. I didn’t want to figure out the process for downloading photos and videos. I felt wistful about the interactions I’d had with old classmates. I wondered how I would be able to promote…
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Misadventures with Malick
A couple years ago, my brother had the fun idea to try watching our way through the Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time with a couple other friends who enjoyed watching movies. The #152 slot on the Sight & Sound list is held by a movie called Days of Heaven, directed by the…
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On Plankton
Trying to Find the Edges of the Built World The thought that has occupied me on my commute lately is about the worlds that we occupy. Mostly, we (or at least those of us who live in North America) live in a built world. It’s a world almost 100% permeated by human and technological influence. It seems…
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Awakening
A brief detailed chronicle of our minute-by-minute dislocation This entry — long overdue — tracks some of the ways that we find ourselves unsettled from a creaturely way of life even in just the first few minutes of an average day. My hope is that it will also uncover counter-movements and signs of what Charles…
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Fake Plastic Earth
Attempting to uncover the creaturely roots of AstroTurf My wife was talking to our neighbour down the road. They had been working for about a year on renovating their front yard. They had built some short faux-stone walls and recently added what looked like plastic hedges and fake foliage all around the space in order…
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