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Common Worlds, Common Sense, and the Digital Realm

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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.

The Convivial Society Common Worlds, Common Sense, and the Digital Realm 57 2 18 1× 0:00 Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -25:14 -25:14 Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. Common Worlds, Common Sense, and the Digital Realm L. M. Sacasas Oct 25, 2020 57 2 18 Share “I do think that if I had to choose one word to which hope can be tied it is hospitality. A practice of hospitality— recovering threshold, table, patience, listening, and from there generating seedbeds for virtue and friendship on the one hand — on the other hand radiating out for possible community, for r

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