Featured Essays

Featured

The more we have sought to bring nature’s processes under our control, the more we live within a lack of control.

Cultivating Purpose and Discernment in a Computational World

Reflections on how ill-prepared our traditional moralities are for the world in which we live. The speed and spread of computational power is forcing a revaluation of values that we are not equipped to handle.

New Gods for a New Time

The Enlightenment pushed God and gods to the sidelines, but as our time continues to evolve, are we letting them back in?

Greg Laugero 8/31/23 Greg Laugero 8/31/23

A Tenth of a Second - Jimena Canales

Modernity didn’t just apply technologies of measuring time at more minute levels. Modernity and time measurement are bound together much more intimately.

Greg Laugero 8/20/23 Greg Laugero 8/20/23

Down to Earth - Bruno Latour

A highly accessible version of Facing Gaia. For me it is the classic statement of how the accumulation of wealth has become the latest expression of Gnosticism.

Greg Laugero 8/17/23 Greg Laugero 8/17/23

Cosmopolis - Stephen Toulmin

A very accessible understanding of how Modernity emerges out of the late Middle Ages as a desire for “certainties” arising out of the conflicts and terrors of the European violence of the seventeenth century.

Greg Laugero 8/16/23 Greg Laugero 8/16/23

Religion, Philosophy, Time

Greg Laugero 8/14/23 Greg Laugero 8/14/23

Tone as a Practice of Time

Greg Laugero 7/27/23 Greg Laugero 7/27/23

A New Soteriology

Greg Laugero 5/28/19 Greg Laugero 5/28/19

Rejoicing - Bruno Latour

A lesser known work of Latour’s that shouldn’t be. A very personal and remarkable understanding of what it means to be non-Modern and religious at the same time.