Davin Heckman
Davin Heckman is a Professor of Mass Communication at Winona State University and the author of A Small World: Smart Houses and the Dream of the Perfect Day. His area of research is creative digital media practices, and is exploring his growing interest in Jacques Ellul, Rene Girard, and Dorothy Day. Mainly, Davin enjoys spending time with his family.
Articles by Davin Heckman
Familiar Revolution
Like the very young and the very old among us, we must forget the learned delusion of independence that revolution prefers and accept the radical dependence of the human condition.
The Poetics of Family Life
Taken alone, the tactical state of childhood itself mounts a magnificent resistance to the rigidity of the adult world. But children do not live in a vacuum: they live in…
Cyber-Sophistry, or How ChatGPT Unmasks the Emptiness of AI
AI is the culmination of an ideological fantasy of elite control, woven into the very infrastructure of commonplace media technologies. When it gets used to talking to us, we may…