She argues that it is as a process and that the two types, holistic and prescriptive technologies, affect how whole societies and individuals live.

Despite or perhaps in spCBC Massy Lecture series is a polemic on technology.

I remember being angry, but all of a sudden it just doesn’t matter anymore. I can still see the ill concealed sneer on the face of my antagonist, the high brow pretension, the need to point out the flaws in every belief system but his own. I remember being told that Catholics were cannibals because they receive the body and blood of Christ. I actually listen to the priest’s homily, I’ve never done that before – you know? It’s not that bad. My girl friend gives me a kiss on the cheek. We wish each other peace, what a lovely idea. The verse I know almost from memory, the boredom, I smile. What does it even mean? The idea that you can bless yourself fascinates me. We pass into the church, habit ingrained somewhere in my muscle memory makes me dab my hand into the font of holy water and cross myself absently. I’ve never been here but the familiarity strikes me somewhere primal within my soul. Although I’m sure the pretty girl standing next me, holding my hand, with a smile like the rising sun had something to do with it. So, it’s not without some surprise that I find myself standing in the warm foyer of a Church I’ve never been too. I know I’m not a better man for not going. There are reasons I stopped going but the cynic in me admits that most of them are pretentious. GIULIO CESCATO A short essay on renewal 22 I can’t say I’m a church going man, although I was in the past.

Gathering blossoms under fire