Welcome to our third annual celebration of the thinkers, innovators, and changemakers who are working to make the future a better place.| Vox
Toward a phenomenology of the phone.| www.newcartographies.com
Silence is a Commons by Ivan Illich| www.davidtinapple.com
I’ve been thinking about tables of late, literally and figuratively. Chiefly, what I’ve had in mind is the table as an emblem of hospitality, and, relatedly, as an example of the material infrastructure of our social lives or the stuff of life that sustains and mediates human relationships ... Thinking about the table has drawn me back to Hannah Arendt’s The Human Condition, first published in 1958.| theconvivialsociety.substack.com
I think I know what's happening.| Slate Magazine
Over the course of a few hundred years, much of Britain's land has been privatized — that is to say taken out of some form of collective ownership and management and handed over to individuals.| www.thelandmagazine.org.uk
Here is a proposition for you to consider: you and I have exactly as much attention as we need. In fact, I’d invite you to do more than consider it. Take it out for a spin in the world. See if proceeding on this assumption doesn’t change how you experience life, maybe not radically, but perhaps for the better.| theconvivialsociety.substack.com
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 13| theconvivialsociety.substack.com
Across centuries, land that was collectively worked by the landless was claimed by the landed, and the age of private property was born.| The New Yorker
People pay a premium for tracking technologies that get imposed unwillingly on others| Real Life