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 1/8/26 Greg Laugero 1/8/26

A Crisis of Purpose: Panurgy in Michel Serres’ L’Incandescent

Michel Serres names our moment a crisis of purpose rather than meaning. In L’Incandescent, he calls it panurgy: the human power to act at the scale of the world itself. As computation accelerates and intelligence becomes a wager, fate gives way to responsibility—and purpose outruns its bearings.

Greg Laugero 12/17/25 Greg Laugero 12/17/25

The Return of Fate

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

Greg Laugero 9/16/24 Greg Laugero 9/16/24

Time and Theodicy

Religion and philosophy emerge when we descend into our experience of time