At its best, Trio's programming functions much like cultural criticism, expanding the context in which we engage and understand the popular arts.
Fresán conveys his warning with magisterial and exciting skills, compelling us to read, but also demanding that we think about the act of reading and the ways in which we engage with it.
Maybe, instead of asking why people don't react rationally to online threats, we should be asking whether it's possible to react rationally to the contradictory ways in which we engage with the Web.
But I've long been struck by the insight of the Jungian analyst James Hollis that nobody ever does "crazy things"; every behavior in which we engage makes some kind of sense, once you "understand the emotional premise".
When the peculiarities of community and place are swept away by the tides of capital, all that's left is a globalised shopping culture, in which we engage with glazed passivity.
Reid's idea is that the only conception we can have of the exertion of power is of that distinctive sort of mental effort in which we engage when we will to do something.
We naturally and non-inferentially believe ourselves to be endowed with power since various activities in which we engage would make no sense if we did not believe ourselves to be endowed with power.
But most would include friendships, familial relationships, and some of the social institutions that foster, sustain, and secure the social life in which we engage as part of our flourishing.
As mobile continues to dominate our lives and the way in which we engage on our tablets and smartphones becomes increasingly social, there will be several pivotal shifts in the way we consume content and interact with others.
