We live in the Technic, but long for a life of depth and meaning. Where is our culture going? Can we save our souls? What about AI? Will poetry be erased? These are among the topics explored in this newsletter.
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“I do so many immoral things every day!” was a particularly striking confession made by Jia Tolentino, the New Yorker writer, on a recent notorious podcast conversation with Nadja Spiegelman on The Opinon podcast from the New York Times. It’s also true that most of us some of the same morally indefensible things Tolentino does, according to herself, such as ordering from Amazon, going to Ballet…
To convince you to read Ian Nairn, the great sui generis British architectural critic, I give you the front cover and back cover blurbs of the re-released Outrage, which details Nairn’s voyage through Britain’s suburbia—what he calls, “Subtopia.” He defines this as “a mean and middle state, neither town nor country, an even spread of abandoned aerodromes and fake rusticity, wire fences, traffic…
Or, being right in a wrong world
When I was given the chance to host the live on stage conversation with Werner Herzog for City Arts and Lectures in San Francisco I was barely able to believe it.
Kamau has learned a lot from Bruce Lee! I did too.
A podcast in which we discuss the human prerogative to create art, AI and its discontents, 826 Valencia–and read from his latest book.
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We live in the Technic, but long for a life of depth and meaning.
Is there measure on earth? There is None.
