It’s been a while since I reported on traffic flow at The Spiral Staircase. I know the results will be a shocker: nothing has changed. I’m safe in my obscurity, which is perfectly fine with me. There is some ebb and flow in how often I blog, but the hits hover between 12 and 30 [...]
Archive for July, 2009
The Device Paradigm
Posted: July 14, 2009 in Consciousness, Culture, Media, Philosophy, Science, TechnophiliaIn 1984, fully a quarter century ago, Albert Borgmann came out with a book of social criticism and philosophy called Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life. (The link is to the paperback from 1987; the hardcover is from 1984.) The book appears on lots of syllabi in college sociology courses, so it’s hardly an [...]
Several competing narratives keep popping up in the media that purportedly assess our current state of affairs while ongoing war and economic woes threaten to undo gains made in the postwar era. One narrative suggests that we are not yet over the worst of our economic problems. Another suggests we are already seeing cause for optimism [...]
