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Always read Walter Ong. But I'm not sure a "return to orality" is quite right. The message of the digital medium is not the images, texts, or sounds. Those are now merely the content of the medium. The message of the medium is in the animation and scrambling of these older forms.

This is actually one of the saddest diagrams from the dalle3 release

Perry, Florida Post Office Cypress Logging - George Snow Hill (1938) Photo by Jimmy Emerson

This is one thing that bothers me about discourse around urbanism in the United States: the assumption that the suburban model of development and transportation is some feature of markets catering to natural preferences. It's an artifice of 100 years of central planning!

Read my latest in Plough Quarterly about these latter days of work!

"As a remote worker] I get tantalizing glimpses of what work must have felt like at times for a first-act worker. To know and participate fully in a household, in all its daily rhythms and seasons, is a special experience, and still regretfully uncommon."

I've seen the complaints about how AI assistants are sneaking into every writing application, and I naively thought I could use the humble Windows Notepad to avoid it. But alas! I was deceived.

I appreciate how Le Monde Politique's website has approached the problem of footnotes in the infinite-scroll world of the browser: any reference in view causes the note to appear below. It manages to be noticeable without being disruptive to the reading experience.

This makes perfect sense--if your philosophy of the city is that its residents are cars, not people.

“Could remote work allow people to return to a time when work and home were inseparable allies rather than antagonists?” John Fechtel plough.com/en/topics/life…

We were worried about AI chatbots seducing people into thinking that a computer program would fulfill their romantic fantasies in a way no human could. Now the AI chatbots are finding a way to mash the schizotypal button deep within the human brain: rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Post-literacy finally arrives not through the disappearance of text but by its extreme proliferation. Post-literacy is an over-saturation event. Post-literacy does not entail a return to orality.