Seminar · Returning Summer 2027
The Machine Has No Tradition: Technology, Revolution, Apocalypse
The Machine Has No Tradition is an intensive seminar for advanced undergraduate, graduate students, and young professionals who are working in an area related to technology. who want to understand technology in its essence and how to remain human in a technological age.
Students and faculty together grapple with Marx, Heidegger, McLuhan, Illich, Girard, and more. Guest speakers have included Matthew Crawford, Andy Crouch, Erika Bachiochi, and Peter Thiel.
Faculty
Jon Askonas
Assistant Professor, Catholic University of America
Author and thinker at the intersection of technology, world order, and American politics.
Mary Harrington
Author, Feminism Against Progress
Writing the forthcoming book The King and the Swarm.
Nathan Pinkoski
Senior Fellow, Center for Renewing America
Author of the forthcoming book Actually Existing Postliberalism from Basic Books.