The Technology of Sense

danielcoffeen's Podcast

(Thoughts on my soon to be released book on Zero Books)
Before we're even born, we are taught how to process the world. After all, we are prefigured in the womb as a baby soon to arrive as a child, as male or female, as having a name and parents. Which is to say, we come to this world already enmeshed in elaborate cultural institutions, discourses, and ways of operating. There is no such thing as a clean slate, no immaculate birth. We are born somewhere, as something, a cog within a m
This mode of processing is institutionalized in school as well as in the media. But this mode is not neutral or natural. It entails a a certain architecture of relations between people, concepts, and knowledge.
Mentioned here: Geometry, Foucault, Bergson, viewing art, being creative, new ways of making sense, and more!