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Winning Slowly

Chris Krycho and Stephen Carradini

There are plenty of podcasts that will tell you how the latest tech gadget or “innovation” will affect the tech landscape tomorrow, but there aren’t that many concerned with the potential impact of that tech in a decade—much less a century. In a culture obsessed with now, how can we make choices with a view for tomorrow, next year, and beyond? 25–35-minute episodes released the first and third Wednesdays of the month.

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35:45

8.04: The Postmodern Condition—Explained

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2020/03/04

Note: Hey listeners, sorry for the weirdness—I (Chris) accidentally published this pointing to the audio for last week’s episode. All fixed now! Jean-François Lyotard on postmodernity, science, and kitschy art. The Postmodern Condition, Jean–François Lyotard Show Notes We do our best to explain this dense piece of French aesthetic theory, its arguments with German idealist philosophers, and its very strong feelings about non-avant-garde art. Errata Chris, because he was slightly sick, forgot that

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32:36

8.03: Phaedrus Examined

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2020/02/19

Should we even keep reading this book—with its criticisms of books? Show Notes We dig into our disagreements with and appreciations of Plato’s Phaedrus! Other things mentioned on the show: C. S. Lewis’ Introduction to Athanasius’ On the Incarnation Marshall McLuhan Ellul and Mumford 2.02: Basketballs ≠ Pumpkins Chat apps Slack and Twist Next month’s book: The Postmodern Condition, Jean–François Lyotard Music “Electric 1 (Part B)” by Elkhorn “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Sponsors Many

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30:03

8.02: Phaedrus Explained

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2020/02/05

What did Plato actually argue two and a half millennia ago? Show Notes We really only did one thing in this episode: talked about Plato’s Phaedrus! What did Plato say? How did he say it? What does it mean? There are, though, lots of interpretations. Relevant to our next episode: people have cited Lyotard a lot. Oh… and Alan Jacobs is back on Twitter. The Andy Matuschak post referenced in the episode Music “Oak Forest” by Ivan Muela “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Sponsors Many thanks to

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32:03

8.01: A Book Club!

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2020/01/29

An overview of Season 8: a book (and movie!) club devoted to the canon (as we define it!) for technology and ethics. Show Notes The authors and topics we discussed in detail on the show: Phaedrus – linked here are a wide array of translations Elizabeth Eisenstein, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities Hardcore History Music “To My Brain” by Aryl Barkley “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho. Sponsors Many thanks to the people who help

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59:45

Jake Meador: In Search of the Common Good

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2019/12/05

Hey listeners, we had a miscommunication leading to the episode originally being published with the wrong intro music—sorry to any of you who got that earlier version! This new version has the right intro music (and one edit fix Chris caught listening back through the episode as a bonus). Sorry about any hassle or confusion! An interview with author and editor (and our friend) about his new book! Show Notes An interview with author and editor (and our friend!) Jake Meador—focused especially on his

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44:03

7.13: A Healthy Tension

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2019/11/21

Chris and Stephen talk about an interesting article… and then pivot to the nature of this podcast and some of their healthy differences—about the show, and in approach to these questions in general. Show notes Isaac Asimov’s Caves of Steel Alan Jacobs’ Pinboard “The Web Falls Apart” Chris’ newsletter Across the Sundering Seas the last couple weeks, on progress and decline: Flux (#27) Edges (#28) Jaron Lanier Your Undivided Attention, Episode 9: The Dictator’s Playbook Chris’ Christology

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36:01

7.12: An Experiment in Moral Imagination, Pt. 3

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2019/10/23

Sustainable long-distance transportation, or really great virtual reality? Fight! Show notes Which would make for healthy localist cities in 80 years: sustainable long-distance transportation, or really great virtual reality? Chris says sustainable long-distance transporation. Stephen says VR. Fight! (In which the phrase “I don’t think that’s true!” appears more than any other episode of the show… ever.) Links Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury The Opolis Cities/metropolitan areas on the East Coast with

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35:52

7.11: An Experiment in Moral Imagination, Pt. 2

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2019/10/05

“Go Do Earth Things”, or, How 80 Years of Non-Technocratic Thinking Might Improve Phoenix, AZ Show notes What will the world be like 80 years from now if we avoid technocratic thinking? We discuss the far future of ecologies, urban planning, and … open-source code economy. Listen all the way through for the closing note about the next episode and one of the most incredible bloopers we’ve ever produced. Best efforts notwithstanding, we couldn’t actually find a news story about the Woodmoor HOA’s

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43:34

7.10: An Experiment In Moral Imagination, Pt. 1

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2019/09/11

Show Notes Press pause on the dystopias. Set aside interventions. Dream a little of a non-technocratic world. We’ve mostly been in the weeds of thinking about specific interventions around technologism this season. Today, we press pause and just spend some time imagining—dare we say, dreaming—of what a non-technocratic world might look and feel like. Links psychohistory The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin Confessions, Augustine The Expanse Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140 and Mars Trilogy,

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37:29

7.09: Frictioneers

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2019/08/29

Can adding a little friction back to user interfaces save us? Show notes We talk about the currently-trendy concept of (design) friction and how it is necessary but not sufficient for right action on the Internet. Links Facebook admits that it intentionally defrauded children by making it easy to buy in-game purchases The creator of the retweet button now thinks it was a bad idea (Mea culpa: We stated this article was written in Wired but it was in BuzzFeed) Dark patterns Alt-Meat Trounces Animal

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37:49

7.08: Literally Metaphorically Listen for Earthquakes

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2019/08/08

Show Notes We pause from issue-focused episodes and try to pull together the threads of the season so far to take a step toward our ethic of technology. Stephen imitating Lewis Mumford saying “I said that!!!” Links Donald Trump cannot block critical Twitter users, court rules The Lindy effect – John D. Cook on the expected lifetimes of technology: …if all you know is that a technology has survived a certain amount of time, you can estimate that it will survive about that much longer. President

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45:34

7.07: The ERLC AI Statement, Part 2

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2019/07/19

Data privacy, just war, the sovereignty of God… there’s a lot here! Show Notes We dig into the rest of the ERLC’s statement on AI—everything from security and privacy to just war and the sovereignty of God. Links Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principles In Search of the Common Good, Jake Meador Minority Report Deepfakes Fake ‘drunk’ Nancy Pelosi video goes viral, and it wasn’t even that hard to make (Mashable) 6.06: A Kind of Blindness—Smart cities, “big data”, and the

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43:15

7.06: The ERLC AI Statement, Part 1

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2019/07/03

People reflecting proactively on ethics? Sold! …mostly. Mostly! Show Notes The ERLC published a statement on artificial intelligence and ethics. We give them an ‘A’ but have some substantive disagreements. Links Artificial Intelligence: An Evangelical Statement of Principles Mass Effect - Mass Affection I, Robot Ray Kurzweil The Singularity Newton’s Wake, Ken Macleod 6.03: I’m Not Puttin’ That Chip in My Cheek—Bodily modification, from hip replacement to magnets in your fingers. 6.05:

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35:27

7.05: Chattanooga, China, and Subsidiarity

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2019/05/23

Localism is great! …but it is no panacea. Show Notes We look at everything from American racial history to the differences between Chattanooga’s and China’s “local” internets. Stephen gesticulating wildly! Links The New Sewer Socialists, Evan Malmgren, Logic An alternate ending to the tragedy of the commons, Nadia Eghbal, on Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action Ostrom noticed there are many situations where common resources are allocated

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38:49

7.04: Not Better Enough

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2019/05/09

Rejecting solutionism, the problems of the humane, and wise change. Show Notes We dig into the challenge of taking a non-solutionist approach and rejecting a technocratic view of the world… while not rejecting “interventions” and making real progress along the way. Corrections Stephen accidentally referred to Chris’ reference in his newsletter to C. S. Lewis’ foreword to St. Athanasius’ On the Incarnation as “On the Annunciation”—the annunciation is a related but distinct bit of Christian doctrine,

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49:00

7.03: Ari Wallach

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2019/04/25

An interview with the founder of Longpath about his vision for the future and trans-generational ethics. Show Notes We chat with Ari Wallach of Longpath about his vision for the future and the importance of trans-generational ethics. (There’s obviously a lot we both find valuable and disagree with here… keep your ears open for reflection on some of those differences in the future!) Corrigenda Buckminster Fuller didn’t invent the trimtab—but he did invent the metaphor of the social aspects of

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42:02

7.02: People Who Don’t Want To Do Things

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2019/04/10

Any positive vision of the future must contend with people who like the current way of doing things. We discuss personal and communal liturgies as potential ways to address the issue. Show Notes John Deere discussion in 6.13 $200M lobbying from oil companies 43 Democrats not even voting on a thing they support $200M in lobbying from oil companies Jake Meador’s articles: “Whose Reaganism? Which Republicanism?” (Mere Orthodoxy) “America’s Farming Crisis, Laid Bare by Midwest Floods” (Christianity

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38:40

7.01: Do We Really Need to Keep the Internet Around?

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2019/03/27

Season 7’s charter—by way of a rollicking argument about Alan Jacobs’ The Year of Our Lord 1943 and Tolkien’s idea of eucatastrophe. Show Notes Major figures we discuss in this episode: Alan Jacobs’ recent work The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisi Jacques Ellul C. S. Lewis T. S. Eliot Jacques Mauritain Simone Weil J.R.R. Tolkien The Lord of the Rings The Silmarillion eucatastrophe: from “On Fairy Stories” (published in The Monsters and the Critics) Other

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1:05

[Bonus] 7.01 Outtake: Twitter is Strongbad

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2019/03/27

7.01 will be in your ears tomorrow. For today: how Stephen copes with Twitter.

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54:40

Jessica C. Blank

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2019/02/04

Documentary theater and the power of storytelling for social change. Show Notes An interview with writer, director, and actor Jessica C. Blank, focusing on her approach to using writing and acting as a means of accomplishing social change. We talk about her work on The Exonerated and How To Be a Rock Critic, as well as her theory of story and the way it can help create common ground even when people have deep disagreements. Links Most importantly: Jessica’s website her Instagram All the things we

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