7.10: An Experiment In Moral Imagination, Pt. 1

Press pause on the dystopias. Set aside interventions. Dream a little of a non-technocratic world.

We’ve mostly been in the weeds of thinking about specific interventions around technologism this season. Today, we press pause and just spend some time imagining—dare we say, dreaming—of what a non-technocratic world might look and feel like.

• psychohistory
• The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin
• Confessions, Augustine
• The Expanse
• Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140 and Mars Trilogy, beginning with Red Mars
• our collective forgetting of the 1970s
  • Alan Jacobs
  • Slate Star Codex (see Section II.)
• Life Finds a Way Kickstarter
• What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly (Chris cited it as being from Wired; in fact it is a book by one of the cofounders of Wired)
• Software Against Humanity? An Illichian perspective on the industrial era of sofware, Stephen Kell
  • Ivan Illich, Tools for Convivality
• The Bible Project – Series on Generosity (Abundance and Scarcity)

• Hayato’s Theme, by Home Brewed Universe. Used by permission.
• “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.

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