Furnishing a Room for People (Not Pixels)

October 5, 2012 · by · in Life in the Body

As I began rearranging the furniture of my mind to accommodate new ideas about life in the body and limits, the furniture of my house appeared to be out of order. There is a connection between our thoughts, beliefs and…

Celebrating Untech

October 3, 2012 · by · in Untech

What do I mean by untech, and why celebrate it? This is tricky. ‘Technology’ is a loaded word with broad and diverse definitions and applications. The ‘tech’ prefix, or suffix, is used all over the place to refer to more…

Celebrating the Beauty of Limits

October 1, 2012 · by · in Limits

In my previous post, I examined the way we are being changed by trading embodied life for virtual life. If you haven’t read it, I’d encourage you to read that first. Today I’d like to consider another aspect of the…

Celebrating Embodied Life

September 28, 2012 · by · in Life in the Body

The aspect of the trade I want to consider today is embodied life for virtual life. Talk of ’embodied life’, in the sense I am using, would probably have been thought redundant in the extreme only a few short years…