January 2012
3 posts
December 2011
2 posts
November 2011
3 posts
October 2011
1 post
Reductio ad scientia
maconstokes:
Technology is instantiated knowledge.
Belief that knowledge is the path to salvation is Gnosticism.
Modernity and postmodernity’s faith in Technology is the same old old old Gnosticism.
(Which, you will recall, goes even back to the choice, “know good and evil,” over relational trust.)
September 2011
1 post
Unrelated:: Utilitarianism is so handy! →
maconstokes:
One of the great attractions of Utilitarianism as an ethic is that it’s mechanical, and appears to remove the “subjective” element from the decisionmaking. That is, a person can pretend they do not have to take responsibility for actually making a judgement about rightness/wrongness. If f(x) =…
August 2011
1 post
July 2011
9 posts
“the young are still the enemies of uniformity, and the Internet, as it extends...”
– Nicholas Carr (via maconstokes)
“But those who are taken captives by this passion, live a life continually...”
– St. John Chrysostom, Homilies on St. John: Homily III
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Life Raft - Drawing Process. 59 mins compressed into 3
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“The art of our time, sacred art included, will necessarily be characterized by a...”
– Sacred Art and the Spiritual Life, Thomas Merton
June 2011
1 post
May 2011
1 post
Relevance Vs Reality
maconstokes:
Advertising is the act of making things relevant. I’m much less interested in relevant than I am in what is real.
Tell me what is real. Don’t work to make a fake thing relevant.
Reality takes care of its own relevance.
April 2011
2 posts
“But, lo, when they show Him a coin and would constrain Him against His will to...”
– Kierkegaard, Training in Christianity
(and who is it that’s on that dollar of yours?)
While you're farming...fake carrots or something,... →
maconstokes:
I think most people think their bargain with Facebook is like the one they had with broadcast television. I sit here a few hours a day sidestepping drudgery and you feed me ads. But as you know (or know now), that’s not it at all. And it’s definitely not just for those ads being served on the site. The bargain we make collectively with “the web” might be Faustian if it were in fact...
February 2011
1 post
“The Helper is the help. Oh, wonderful! He who invites all and would help all...”
– Soren Kierkegaard, Training in Christianity
December 2010
1 post
“It is safe to say that there is much confusion about what is needed for life and...”
– Fr. Richard Rohr - Daily Meditation - 12/16/10
June 2010
1 post
“Jesus asked in Gethsemane, “Could you not watch with me one hour?” ...”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, To Eberhard Bethge, July 16, 1944 (9 months before his execution in a concentration camp)
November 2009
5 posts
“The new homogeneity of the printed page seemed to inspire a subliminal faith in...”
– Marshall McLuhan, The Gutenberg Galaxy (p 144)
“It is largely to the humanists that we owe the curious conception of the...”
– C.S. Lews English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (p. 21)
