Jon Askonas: Politics is Downstream of Technology
From the New World · Brian Chau
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Show Notes
Jon Askonas is a professor at The Catholic University of America and a contributor to the New Atlantis and Compact. We discuss technological change, Marshall McLuhan, why conservatism is prone to grift, Democracy, the January 6th hearings, Rene Girard, and apocalypse.
Jon Askonas:
https://twitter.com/JonAskonas
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonas
Jon’s articles mentioned:
https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failed
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-happened-to-consensus-reality
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tucker
Mentioned in the episode:
https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/whats-happened-to-consensus-reality-jon-askonas/
https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city
https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-modern-cult-of-the-factish-gods
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