Embodiment and Technology, Fact and Fiction with Jasun Horsley
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2024
- Jasun Horsley is an author of several books on popular culture, psychology, and high strangeness. He is a transmedia storyteller, independent scholar, and existential detective.
Horsley's blog: childrenofjob.substack.com/
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Jason no longer lives and works in Canada. He sold his shop and moved to Spain. Description is wrong.
Man this is really awesome! Just found it, and I really like your style. Please never give up!
Poet David Whyte talks about the default condition of humans being vulnerability. And it is not always a bad thing but an opening, a possible opportunity for embracing life.
It's interesting to think about blind people, who develop a sensitivity of detecting surfaces with their feet, we have that ability too, those of us who can see, we just don't practice or develop that because vision is a primary information source or more expedient
We most certainly try to make the hammer more hammery
Yeah I've had the same problem with interviews, I could tell you some funny stories..... Very interesting interview, the tech, theology, phenomenology ones are (for me) the most interesting ones.
Can’t help but like this guy
Since hammers are being discussed I feel the need to chime in. The point of a hammer is to make the human more hammer like. When you hammer you no longer become human. You become a machine, and those who have become machine will tell you this. "That a boy!" they will say. Or, "He's a machine!" Before you become a machine, you are a human, and you do not hammer well. Hammer is clumsy in your soft human hands. You are like an angel with wet wings, all soft and serene, but unable to fly to great heights. When you get better with hammer you loose yourself. Your body goes silent. Your mind speaks in a binary of clang and bang. You float above the world, above joists, floor boards, underlayments, interior walls, rafters, roof decking, shingles. Up there a minute passes, then an hour, eight, forty, two weeks, a month, a year. People shout up to you, "Oh my precious hammer! thank you for all you did! your swinging has not gone unnoticed! You are the second coming of John Henry! Our children will sing of you and all those pieces of our lives you fastened together!" And even if you were to come back down, their accolades would be unable to drive into you, for your skin has become tough, your ears only capable of hearing pings and wizzes, and your heart hardened.
Good discussion and a fave topic of mine. I just struggle with Jasun's seeming endless predeliction towards conspiracy. The human brain, as created by natural selection, can be seen as simply a huge type of thermostat - a heap of negative feedback loops endlessly trying to bring things back to homeostasis. We are homeostasis machines. At the same time, we recognise the need for occasional bursts of positive feedback loops - accelerating/iincreasing - to get change and development. This to my mind is really all you need to understand our relationship to things like tech or capitalism. You just don't need to anthromorphise or make a conspiracy out of it. Just needed to point that out!
Relating to disembodiment, in hard practical terms, I think the real issue is screens and blue light. That's what seems to pull people out. Paperwhite (kindle) type screens seem to be way less disembodying.