The Art of Living - by L. M. Sacasas

Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. There are countless paths into these expansive subjects, and countless paths running through their interrelationship. To think and write about technology and culture is just to think and write about how to be human in the world today, and the mode of my writing shifts a fair amount accordingly. Last time a rather long essay in a more academic vein; this time around a brief reflection, which I hope you’ll find usefully suggestive to your own thinking and practice. Cheers! A thought for your consideration on a Friday afternoon: The art of living, like any other art, is the art of learning to work creatively within the constraints of the medium. I would not claim to be an artist, of life or of any other medium. But this thought came to mind recently as I washed dishes and mulled over some of Wendell Berry’s work, which I’d just been reading. I’m drawn to the idea of an art of living much more so than to the compu

Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture. There are countless paths into these expansive subjects, and countless paths running through their interrelationship. To think and write about technology and culture is just to think and write about how to be human in the world today, and the mode of my writing shifts a fair amount accordingly. Last time a rather long essay in a more academic vein; this time around a brief reflection, which I hope you’ll find usefully suggestive to your own thinking and practice. Cheers! A thought for your consideration on a Friday af