Taylor Dotson

"A highly readable and punchy roadmap that ordinary citizens and policymakers alike can use to begin rethinking and refashioning their political interactions to be more productive"--

How Fanatical Certitude Is Destroying Democracy

The Divide

Yuval Noah Harari

Thomas Chatterton Williams

Kate Manne

William Davies

Peter Wohlleben

Stephanie Kelton

David French

Richard Kearney

Mary Harrington

Martha Craven Nussbaum

Vinciane Despret

Patrick Stokes

Amia Srinivasan

Judith Pamela Butler

Olivier Abel

Gwenola Ricordeau

Tess Johnson

Hugo Micheron

Shane Trotter

Kmele Foster

En 2022, dans un monde en proie à une profonde incertitude, la tendance du débat public est à la polarisation idéologique et identitaire, qu'il s'agisse de la gestion de la pandémie, de la libération de la parole des femmes ou de la question de la laïcité. Donner à entendre la diversité des voix qui tentent detrouver dans l'incertitude l'occasion de relancer la pensée : telle est l'ambition de cet ouvrage qui rassemble les grands textes de philosophes, écrivains, historiens ou économistes parus dans la presse internationale en 2021, sélectionnés par la rédaction de Philosophie magazine.

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Why we should not accept “networked individualism” as the inevitable future of community. If social interaction by social media has become “the modern front porch” (as one sociologist argues), offering richer and more various contexts for community and personal connection, why do we often feel lonelier after checking Facebook? For one thing, as Taylor Dotson writes in Technically Together, “Try getting a Facebook status update to help move a couch or stay for dinner.” Dotson argues that the experts who assure us that “networked individualism” will only bring us closer together seem to be urging citizens to adapt their social expectations to the current limits of technology and discouraging them from considering how technologies could be refashioned to enable other ways of relating and belonging. Dotson characterizes different instantiations of community as “thick” or “thin,” depending on the facets and manifestations of togetherness that they encompass. Individuating social networks are a form of community, he explains, but relatively thin in regard to several dimensions of communality. Dotson points out that current technological practices are not foreordained but supported by policies, economic arrangements, and entrenched patterns of thought. He examines a range of systems, organizations, and infrastructures—from suburban sprawl and smartphones to energy grids and “cry-it-out” sleep training for infants—and considers whether they contribute to the atomization of social life or to togetherness and community vibrancy. Dotson argues that technology could support multifaceted communities if citizens stopped accepting the technological status quo and instead demanded more from their ever-present devices.

Reconstructing Community in a Networked World

Technically Together

Why we should not accept "networked individualism" as the inevitable future of community.

Taylor Dotson

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