Techs on Texts
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A podcast from @jed.co featuring conversations with technologists about the literature that has influenced them.
Episode #24: @kevinbullock.bsky.social on Pluribus by Vince Gilligan techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Kevin Bullock on Pluribus
Kevin Bullock joins us to discuss Vince Gilligan’s Pluribus. We explore individual morality, the ethics of science, AI, human nature, selfhood and memory, and ghosts.
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one way I finished the year was having a fun talk about a wild Borges story & its resonances in Silicon Valley cults, with my friend @jed.co - starting it out right by sharing with you all!
Techs on Texts@techsontexts.net · 8mo agoEpisode #23: @cydharrell.bsky.social on "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Episode #23: @cydharrell.bsky.social on "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Cyd Harrell on Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
Cyd Harrell, devout civic technologist, joins us to discuss Jorge Luis Borges’s “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius.” We talk about tungsten cubes, techno cults, and our guesses about the “horrifying or banal...
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Episode #19: Matt Price on Piranesi by Susanna Clarke techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Matt Price on Piranesi
Matt Price – technology historian and professor – joins us to discuss Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi. We talk about egos, ego death, cults, academia, Christianity, Buddhism, and psychedelics.
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Episode #18: @noah-i.bsky.social on *China Mountain Zhang* by Maureen F. McHugh techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Noah Iliinsky on China Mountain Zhang
Noah Iliinsky – most-esteemed information visualization expert, speaker and author – joins us to discuss Maureen F. McHugh’s China Mountain Zhang.
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Episode #17: Daniel X. O’Neil on The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Daniel X. O'Neil on The Waste Land
Daniel X. O’Neil, the worldwide entertainment juggernaut of the 21st century, joins us to discuss T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.
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Episode #16: @al.merose.com Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Alex Merose on Convenience Store Woman
Alex Merose extols the virtues of lazy action and calls on us to embrace Duchamp into our hearts through discussion of Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman and Maurizio Lazzarato’s essay “Marcel Du...
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I really enjoyed this chat with @jed.co on his podcast @techsontexts.net A Pattern Language is a really special book. If you’ve read it I hope this conversation deepens your appreciation for it. If not I hope it encourages you to check it out for yourself!
Techs on Texts@techsontexts.net · last yr.Episode #15: @johnnyrodgers.is on A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Episode #15: @johnnyrodgers.is on A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Johnny Rodgers on A Pattern Language
Johnny Rodgers joins us to discuss Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and its timeless for humans trying to make things for other humans.
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Episode #14: George Dyson on Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
George Dyson on Childhood's End
George Dyson is on again, this time to talk about Childhood’s End and what it has to teach us about overlord technologies.
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Episode #13: Keith Garrett on The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Fiction by Ted Chiang techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Keith Garrett on The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling
Keith Garrett, coy technologist, father, and former marine, comes on to discuss Ted Chiang’s masterful “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling.”
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Read ahead! This month's episode (out sometime after the 26th), will about “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang. Next month's episode will be about Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke. techsontexts.net/housekeeping...
Reading for February and March
In February, Keith Garrett will be on to discuss “The Truth of Fact, The Truth of Feeling” by Ted Chiang. In March, George Dyson returns to discuss Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke.
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Episode #12: @ginatrapani.org on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Gina Trapani on Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Gina Trapani, exemplary human and champion of good things on the web, comes on to talk about Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin. We talk about creating universes, friendship, pare...
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Episode #11: @nattyray.bsky.social on Francis Ford Coppola's The Conversation techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Nathaniel Raymond on The Conversation
Nathaniel Raymond, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Research Lab at the Yale School of Public Health, joins me to talk about Francis Ford Coppola’s masterful 1974 film, The Conversation. Nathani...
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Episode #10: @mcoatney.bsky.social on A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin techsontexts.net/episodes/202...
Mark Coatney on A Wizard of Earthsea
Mark Coatney, long-suffering digital media pioneer, gets me to finally read a novel by Ursula K. Le Guin and I loved it. Topics include our changing world, what the world is for, preindustrial longing...
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![Puns are not the games of a mediocre mind. Duchamp found in them "a source of stimulation both because of their actual sound and because of unexpected meanings attached to the interrelationships of disparate words [...].
Sometimes four or five different levels of meaning come through. If you introduce a familiar word into an alien atmosphere, you have something comparable to distortion . in painting, something surprising and new."42](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lozmph3nfogiyoi23m4qrxus/bafkreigf5ue5nl5vdw43ckxlhgqyv263gc6s7muwlqfxjd73oqa2rmd3ou)