#podcast #AndreasReckwitz #booklunch #SocietyofSingularities #reading #bookclub #mitchhampton This book lunch is an opportunity to take a break from multiple series on an author or series of books and devote attention to a single book. German sociologist Andreas Reckwitz is one of the precious few in a disappearing breed of public intellectuals - those who, like Charles Taylor or Marcel Gauchet, attempt to take a wider view of recent History and Civilization so as to decipher comprehensible patterns and themes. In this book lunch I will wrestle with his book from 2017 The Society Of Singularities. It is a rich and dense book and oddly entertaining, probably because the abstractions in a book of this kind (as if there are any books of this kind!) relate directly to how most if not of all us live today. More on this episode, here:This book lunch is an opportunity to take a break from multiple series on an author or series of books and devote attention to a single book. German sociologist Andreas Reckwitz is one of the precious few in a disappearing breed of public intellectuals - those who, like Charles Taylor or Marcel Gauchet, attempt to take a wider view of recent History and Civilization so as to decipher comprehensible patterns and themes. In this book lunch I will wrestle with his book from 2017 The Society Of Singularities.

It is a rich and dense book and oddly entertaining, probably because the abstractions in a book of this kind (as if there are any books of this kind!) relate directly to how most if not of all us live today.

As always in episodes like this one special attention will be paid to the prose style of Reckwitz as least as much as to the transparent, "real world" ideas and matters to which the prose applies.https://www.sleek-mag.com/article/in-...#sociology #philosophy #germany #eu #politics #technology #authenticity #europe #singularity #internet #economics #modernism #postmodernism #arts #entertainment #democracy #identity #polarization #war #culture-war #1970s #1980s #1990s #2000s #stand-upcomedy #performance #influencer #tribe #race #racism #gender #education #freedom #totalitarianism #psychology #nonfiction #nature #culture #progress #lifestyle #stream #hbo #netflix #covid #health #media #platform #socialmedia #urbanism #rural #town #city #medicine #music #prose #fiction #news