AMDG


Prometheus, punished by the gods for giving mankind fire, the first technology.

Technology Studies


Chair: Tarwater

"The Catholic Church is not opposed to violence; only to unjust violence; so smash the television set."--John Senior.

"Oh, the advertising men, the radio, television itself, are the robbers of the poor, the real culprits!"--Servant of God, Dorothy Day.




Manifestos

Technopoly by Neil Postman (Chapter 1)

The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt

Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander

The Death of Christian Culture by John Senior

Letters from Lake Como by Romano Guardini

"Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front" by Wendell Berry



Restoration

Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich

"Pandora's Devices: Managing the Miseries of the Machine" by Peco and Ruth Gaskovski (from SK)

"Machine Antidote 101: How to Apprentice a Human" by Peco and Ruth Gaskovski (from SK)

"From Feeding Moloch to 'Digital Minimalism'" by Ruth Gaskovski (from SK)

The Restoration of Christian Culture by John Senior



AI

"Artificial intelligence and Magical Thinking" by Edward Feser

Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control by Stuart Russell

Philosophy of Mind by Edward Feser

"From Aristotle to John Searle and Back Again: Formal Causes, Teleology, and Computation in Nature" by Edward Feser, Ph.D.