Welcome back all. Here is Digitally Literate, issue #325. My publication of this newsletter has been inconsistent over the last month. I have been traveling a lot in between classes as my father quickly fought, and ultimately lost a battle against lung cancer. I will travel again next week as we’re holding a celebration of…
Hello there. Here is Digitally Literate, issue #315. This will be my last post for 2021. I’ll take the remainder of the month off and spend time tinkering with my website, this newsletter, and my social media feeds. Some interesting things coming soon. 🙂 If you haven’t already, please subscribe if you would like this…
White nationalism in the U.S. is becoming more visible and more deadly, from marchers in Charlottesville to a gunman at a Pittsburgh synagogue. Adam Serwer in The Atlantic on the American roots of this movement. He writes that what is judged extremist today was once the consensus of a powerful cadre of the American elite.…
Tega Brain and Sam Lavigne, two Brooklyn-based artists whose work explores the intersections of technology and society, have been hearing a lot of stories like mine. In June, they launched a website called New Organs, which collects f…
The tools we use to help us think—from language to smartphones—may be part of thought itself.
The first section of the article follows Clark’s development of idea that our minds must be defined as extended beyond our bodies to include the tools in our environment without which they cannot function: Clark started musing about the ways in which even adult thought was often scaffolded by things outside the head. There were…