Brian Chau & Jon Askonas , From the New World

Jon Askonas: Politics is Downstream of Technology

20 Mar 2023 • 94 min • EN
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Jon Askonas is a professor at The Catholic University of America and a contributor to the New Atlantis and Compact. We discuss technological change, Marshall McLuhan, why conservatism is prone to grift, Democracy, the January 6th hearings, Rene Girard, and apocalypse. Jon Askonas: https://twitter.com/JonAskonas https://www.thenewatlantis.com/authors/jon-askonas Jon’s articles mentioned: https://compactmag.com/article/why-conservatism-failed https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/reality-is-just-a-game-now https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/what-happened-to-consensus-reality https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/how-stewart-made-tucker Mentioned in the episode: https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/whats-happened-to-consensus-reality-jon-askonas/ https://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/the-analog-city-and-the-digital-city https://www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-modern-cult-of-the-factish-gods This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fromthenew.world/subscribe

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