“Drunk Tears on a Barren Sea: Augustinian Reflections on Desire” - lecture by Matthew Lee Anderson (Honors Program)

Lecture by Matthew Lee Anderson sponsored by the Institute on Religion & Democracy and the Messiah University Honors Program.

What do sea shanties have to do with desire? Humans have long lived under crisis of discovering our own good—but in recent years, we have been tempted to outsource our search for it to the machines. How might Augustine’s Confessions form us to desire better in a world where our desires our mediated back to us by the algorithms that increasingly run our lives?