Contraptions
Venkatesh RaoJanky, wobbly models of everything from philosophy to technology and everything in-between.
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On Cooling America Out
I’ve been closely re-reading Erwing Goffman’s classic 1952 paper, On Cooling the Mark Out, after more than a decade, and this re-read feels very different, driven by the vague intuition that it sheds some important light on the status of th...
The World Machines Project
The loose World Machines framework I developed to guide the readings selection for the Contraptions Book Club has proved surprisingly popular and fertile, and people besides me are starting to use it to scaffold their thinking and writing. ...
Rediscovering Irony
As above, so below. It seems to me that the problem of pushing AI past its most important limitations, and the problem of rescuing human culture from its most important pathologies at all scales, from claustrophobic and increasingly disease...
Contraption Mansion
An old bit becomes a new it
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