Archive - Soft Power

Aching muscles, aching minds

A defense of meaningful work in a world that dreams of automating it away

Jul 10 •

June 2025

What resists measure

What is lost when we flatten human worth to our intelligence?

Jun 21 •

Introducing Soft Power

Evolving the Luftmensch

Jun 10 •

April 2025

The persistence of memory

What happens to our minds when machines no longer forget?

Apr 28 •

Deus ex machina

Freedom and its discontents

Apr 19 •

August 2024

Intimations of immortality

Meditations on a WALL-E future

Aug 31, 2024 •

Ecologies of care

Reimagining relations beyond domination and subjugation

Aug 1, 2024 •

June 2024

Custodian of human enchantment

On AI and the human good — and what I'm working on

Jun 27, 2024 •

December 2023

Do something that won’t compute

On Wendell Berry and true liberation

Dec 1, 2023 •

October 2023

Within me there lay an invincible summer

Flourishing in times of grief and darkness

Oct 19, 2023 •

Surrender control over your stories

George Saunders on the parallel crafts of writing and living

Oct 12, 2023 •

September 2023

Toward a vision of human flourishing

A call to collectively reimagine our world

Sep 28, 2023 •

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