1. Left to our own devices; 2. Led by our own lights; 3. The sound of our own voice; 4. Realities of our own contrivance; 5. From my inbox.
Digital technology is a 'natural technology'-a technology so intuitive as to conceal how and how far it transforms the world.
Antón Barba-Kay received a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago's Committee on Social Thought in 2013. He was Professor of Philosophy at Catholic University from 2013–22. He is now Robert B. Aird Chair of Humanities at Deep Springs College-a liberal arts college on a cattle ranch in the Eastern Sierra.
'There have been plenty of books written about the digital age, but
Antón Barba-Kay gives us something genuinely new. With a clinical
yet passionate intelligence, he explains how the fusion of
technology and being has forever changed who we are and how we
live. A Web of Our Own Making is fierce, uncompromising,
and essential.' Nicholas Carr, author of The
Shallows and The Glass Cage
'In compelling, elegant prose, Antón Barba-Kay lucidly diagnoses
the full extent of our current technocultural crisis. His analysis
is unflinching, and does not settle for any facile reassurances.
But do not call his approach nostalgic, or, even worse, 'Luddit'.
For Barba-Kay is not seeking to go back to anything, but rather is
helping to advance the very urgent project of finding a way forward
that preserves the irreducibly human within a complex and
unprecedented technological landscape. This book is timely and
necessary indeed.' Justin E. H. Smith, professor of history and
philosophy of science at the University of Paris, author of The
Internet Is Not What You Think It Is
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