Kartik Agaram
Justin Blank
09/06/2023, 11:50 PMKonrad Hinsen
09/07/2023, 4:47 AMrelating to, occupied with, or fond of feasting, drinking, and good companyWhen I first read the book, my immediate reaction was "he uses "convivial" in a weird sense". By now I am used to it, and use it myself in that way, but there is a constant risk of being misunderstood.
Jonas
09/07/2023, 9:37 AMcurious_reader
09/07/2023, 10:21 AMEli Mellen
09/07/2023, 2:31 PMKartik Agaram
After many doubts, and against the advice of friends whom I respect, I have chosen "convivial" as a technical term to designate a modern society of responsibly limited tools. In part this choice was conditioned by the desire to continue a discourse which had started with its Spanish cognate. The French cognate has been given technical meaning (for the kitchen) by Brillat−Savarin in his Physiology of Taste: Meditations on Transcendental Gastronomy. This specialized use of the term in French might explain why it has already proven effective in the unmistakably different and equally specialized context in which it will appear in this essay. I am aware that in English "convivial" now seeks the company of tipsy jollyness, which is distinct from that indicated by the OED and opposite to the austere meaning of modern "eutrapelia," which I intend. By applying the term "convivial" to tools rather than to people, I hope to forestall confusion.
Eli Mellen
09/08/2023, 1:40 AMKartik Agaram
Eli Mellen
09/08/2023, 1:48 AMKonrad Hinsen
09/08/2023, 7:26 AMAlex McLean
09/18/2023, 9:56 AMcurious_reader
09/18/2023, 10:30 AMKonrad Hinsen
09/18/2023, 11:50 AMcurious_reader
09/18/2023, 11:52 AMJustin Blank
09/18/2023, 11:53 AM