StrypeyMar 8, 2024

"But, of course, Ring presents itself as more than just the surveillance arm of a multibillion dollar corporation deployed to your front door. It hijacks the human need for security or safety and transmutes it into a need for Ring. It is chiefly the needs of Amazon that are being met, particularly given the way that Ring allows Amazon to also profit from partnerships with police departments."

#LMSacasas, 2020

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-do-human-beings-need-rethinking

#Amazon #Ring

What Do Human Beings Need?

We have an opportunity to examine more carefully some of the assumptions that have informed the way we think about the nature of a good life. And I would suggest that we do well to start, as Simone Weil did, with a consideration of the full range of human needs, clarified by Ivan Illich’s searching critique of the needs engendered in us by industrial (and now digital) institutions, and oriented toward a more robust vision of a good society as Albert Borgmann urged us to imagine.

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Show threadStrypeyMar 8, 2024

"And as Illich would have readily predicted, this dependence on a corporate product comes at the additional cost of alienating neighbors, eroding social trust, and replacing mutual interdependence with a state of perpetual suspicion."

#LMSacasas, 2020

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-do-human-beings-need-rethinking

What Do Human Beings Need?

We have an opportunity to examine more carefully some of the assumptions that have informed the way we think about the nature of a good life. And I would suggest that we do well to start, as Simone Weil did, with a consideration of the full range of human needs, clarified by Ivan Illich’s searching critique of the needs engendered in us by industrial (and now digital) institutions, and oriented toward a more robust vision of a good society as Albert Borgmann urged us to imagine.

The Convivial Society
Show threadStrypeyMar 8, 2024

"... the rest of the work is an attempt to provide just such an enumeration and discussion of these vital needs with the express purpose of supplying a foundation for the rebuilding of French society. She deals briefly with a set fourteen such needs before turning to a longer discussion of 'rootedness' and 'uprootedness', which opens with this well-known claim: 'To be rooted is perhaps the most important and least recognized need of the human soul'."

#LMSacasas, 2020

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-do-human-beings-need-rethinking

What Do Human Beings Need?

We have an opportunity to examine more carefully some of the assumptions that have informed the way we think about the nature of a good life. And I would suggest that we do well to start, as Simone Weil did, with a consideration of the full range of human needs, clarified by Ivan Illich’s searching critique of the needs engendered in us by industrial (and now digital) institutions, and oriented toward a more robust vision of a good society as Albert Borgmann urged us to imagine.

The Convivial Society
Show threadStrypeyMar 8, 2024

"I like to pair this claim with Hannah Arendt’s discussion of loneliness, alienation, and superfluousness, which, in The Origins of Totalitarianism, she identifies as ideal conditions for the emergence of totalitarian regimes. 'Under the most diverse conditions and disparate circumstances', Arendt wrote, 'we watch the development of the same phenomena—homelessness on an unprecedented scale, rootlessness to an unprecedented depth'."

#LMSacasas, 2020

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-do-human-beings-need-rethinking

#Totalitarianism

What Do Human Beings Need?

We have an opportunity to examine more carefully some of the assumptions that have informed the way we think about the nature of a good life. And I would suggest that we do well to start, as Simone Weil did, with a consideration of the full range of human needs, clarified by Ivan Illich’s searching critique of the needs engendered in us by industrial (and now digital) institutions, and oriented toward a more robust vision of a good society as Albert Borgmann urged us to imagine.

The Convivial Society
Show threadStrypey

"Combining [Simone] Weil and [Hannah] Arendt, then, we might say that to the degree that the need for rootedness—which is to say, a sense of belonging in relatively stable communities—goes unfulfilled, to that same degree human beings become vulnerable to destructive political regimes."

#LMSacasas, 2020

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-do-human-beings-need-rethinking

What Do Human Beings Need?

We have an opportunity to examine more carefully some of the assumptions that have informed the way we think about the nature of a good life. And I would suggest that we do well to start, as Simone Weil did, with a consideration of the full range of human needs, clarified by Ivan Illich’s searching critique of the needs engendered in us by industrial (and now digital) institutions, and oriented toward a more robust vision of a good society as Albert Borgmann urged us to imagine.

The Convivial Society
Mar 8, 2024 at 9:42pmWeb
Show threadStrypeyMar 8, 2024

"...[One] example... is the belief in some quarters that the problem with facial recognition technology is simply that it seems, in its present iteration, to be especially biased against people of color, as if the tool would be just and good as soon as it was calibrated so that people of color were equally legible to its gaze. In other words, equal access to fundamentally degrading institutions and their products is not justice."

#LMSacasas, 2020

https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/what-do-human-beings-need-rethinking

#FacialRecognition

What Do Human Beings Need?

We have an opportunity to examine more carefully some of the assumptions that have informed the way we think about the nature of a good life. And I would suggest that we do well to start, as Simone Weil did, with a consideration of the full range of human needs, clarified by Ivan Illich’s searching critique of the needs engendered in us by industrial (and now digital) institutions, and oriented toward a more robust vision of a good society as Albert Borgmann urged us to imagine.

The Convivial Society