Hello Dear Subscriber:
There’s been a hiatus in my emails. I haven’t published any written posts since the publication of my book, The Modern Malaise. But I’ve been publishing podcast episodes every week (Tuesdays).
This latest episode, Homo Desiderans, is 9th this season. You can find it with all the others by searching — and subscribing to! — Boreas Podcast on your podcast platform of choice (Apple Podcasts, Spotify, etc.). Or go straight to boreas.buzzsprout.com or, from now on, on my substack.
Going forward, I might shoot you a weekly email to announce a new episode with some written commentary on the topic. Also, I’m brewing some short-story fiction.
Let’s keep in touch!
The episode description for Homo Desiderans:
What is it that makes us uniquely human? Thinking (homo sapiens)? Organizing (homo economicus)? Symbols (“the symbolic species”)?
I propose that it is desire in the Girardian sense — we are homo desiderans: the desiring humans.
Artificial intelligence versus the desiring human.
Wordcels, shape rotators, and a third way.
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