Original Sin—A Theological Reading of Innovation
the original question remains: What does this steadily throbbing shimmer hold for us? How is it revising our ideas about the larger human project? What continuities remain, and how do we contend—collectively and individually—with all the breaks and rifts, all the spots where traditions can no longer carry us over?
Sven Birkerts • The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Yet we ignore that the innovator most often innovates by accelerating the pace of life. They risk alienating themselves from transcendence, and even from the core elements of being human, all for the sake of a high cultural good of getting more in less time.
Andrew Root • The Congregation in a Secular Age (Ministry in a Secular Age Book #3): Keeping Sacred Time against the Speed of Modern Life
Notes From the Metaverse - By L. M. Sacasas - The Convivial Society
L. M. Sacasastheconvivialsociety.substack.com
Value, in an economic sense, is theoretically created by new things based on new ideas. But when the material basis for these new things is missing or actively deteriorating and profits must be made, what is there to be done? Retreat to the immaterial and work with what already exists: meaning.
Meaning is always readily available to be repeated, re... See more
Meaning is always readily available to be repeated, re... See more