To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 9 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: Squeeze-and-pop patterns are about how when the body is traumatized, a desire to escape into the dissociative worlds that open as a result of that trauma, is created. Squeeze-and-pop patterns have been around since the beginning of recorded […]
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December 11, 2012
Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 10)
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November 8, 2012
Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 7)
To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 6 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: There seems to be a backlash forming against digital busyness, a backlash that philanthropists could potentially support. Generally, one of the names this backlash goes by is the Slow Life Movement: slow food, slow parenting, slow travel, even […]
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February 24, 2012
Nicholas Carr RYOL Lecture Well Attended & Received
As reported here previously, on February 17th, 2012, the FHL Foundation brought Nicholas Carr—author of the 2010 book The Shallows—What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains—to Albuquerque to speak as a part of the Foundation’s Roll Your Own Lecture (RYOL) Series. This lecture benefitted St. Martin’s Hospitality Center, which received a grant check for […]
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Affordable Ashmordable … What About Desirable Care?
I applaud efforts to make healthcare affordable, but in this blog post I’d like to offer up a caution: “As we make healthcare in specific and care in general more affordable, will it still remain desirable?” Looked at another way, does it make sense to make something that is quickly becoming undesirable, affordable? Should we be […]
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