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, I’ll mention that I ordinarily post audio of the main essays (although a bit less regularly than I’d like over the past few months). For a variety of reasons that I won’t bore you with here, I’ve settled on doing this by sending a supplement with the audio separately from the text version of the essay. That’s what you have here.
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You can go back to the original essay for links to articles, essays, etc. You can find the images and paintings I cite in the post below.
Jason Allen’s “Théâtre D’opéra Spatial”
Rembrandt’s “The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp”
Detail from Pieter Bruegel’s “Harvesters”
The whole of Bruegel’s “Harvesters”
Secularization Comes For the Religion of Technology (Audio Version)
Vision Con (Audio Version)
Learning to Receive the Day (Audio Version)
Embrace Your Crookedness (Audio Version)
Year End Miscellany and "What You Get Is the World" (Audio Version)
"The Pathologies of the Attention Economy" (Audio), Links, Miscellany
Taking Stock of Our Technological Liturgies
What Is To Be Done? Audio Version
Audio Version: "LaMDA, Lemoine, and the Allures of Digital Re-enchantment"
The Meta-Positioning Habit of Mind
The Myth of the Machine
"The Face Stares Back" Audio + Links and Resources
The Uncanny Gaze of the Machine
Attending to the World
"Dream of Virtual Reality" Audio Version AND Some Links For Your Consideration
Understanding McLuhan: A Conversation with Andrew McLuhan
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Pity, Power, and Presence
A World Ordered Only By Search
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