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Aki Järvinen

@unexaminedtech

Technologist, Ph.D, researcher, spiritual seeker and aspiring ethicist. 25 years of experience in interactive technology and media across industry and academia. Now re-examining all that in my newsletter: https://unexaminedtechnology.substack.com/

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Abandon ideas and embrace the past, place, people, and prayer

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29.09.2025 07:16 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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”What if we would not see technology as a set of man-made inventions, separate from nature?” #PhilTech
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18.04.2025 07:17 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”― Antonio Gramsci

I see monsters. How do you break this to a 12-year-old child who still holds your hand while you watch television?

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05.04.2025 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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”How might we identify the impacts technologies have had that are not conducive to planetary flourishing? How, then might we detach from a technology by detaching first from its systemic impacts and the ways they have conditioned our behaviour?” #PhilTech open.substack.com/pub/unexamin...

21.03.2025 18:34 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"In the illustration below, I have reflected on how these patterns might manifest themselves to someone like me who is wrestling with their relationship to technology." #PhilTech open.substack.com/pub/unexamin...

07.03.2025 07:43 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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"In the illustration below, I have reflected on how these patterns might manifest themselves to someone like me who is wrestling with their relationship to technology." #PhilTech open.substack.com/pub/unexamin...

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Hospicing technological solutionism: a modest primer Reading part one of Hospicing Modernity

Today I start a series of posts about an important book #PhilTech open.substack.com/pub/unexamin...

21.02.2025 09:22 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Hospicing technological solutionism: a modest primer Reading part one of Hospicing Modernity

Today I start a series of posts about an important book #PhilTech open.substack.com/pub/unexamin...

21.02.2025 09:22 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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In this post I talk about civilisations, innovation, and the creative energy surplus -- something that I've personally channelled into writing the newsletter and the work (reading, listening, attending) that goes to it. #PhilTech open.substack.com/pub/unexamin...

07.02.2025 22:31 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

#PhilTech #innovation

27.01.2025 12:15 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Technology innovation in the time of the polycrisis A working proposal for a doctorate study

”I’m pretty confident that most innovation efforts with technology should focus on crisis management and resolution, in addition to empowering small communities to produce food, medicine, and shelter with locally grown resources.” open.substack.com/pub/unexamin...

24.01.2025 20:44 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1

#PhilTech

13.01.2025 11:54 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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“The first fist fight on Mars” Why we need cognitive rather than interplanetary explorers

Today I write about the delusion and unimportance of ideas such as colonising Mars.

10.01.2025 08:39 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 2
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The upcoming innovations that will let us keep flying over the hellscapes of environmental disaster A feverish rant about techno-solutionism

Where I rip into tech trends - and kindly ask for a coffee #climate
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13.12.2024 20:05 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

I know this very well, having worked in that world :/

22.12.2024 18:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"How often is the development of technology informed by careful contemplation or silence? We keep building technology with speed because we take it for granted that it is a sign of progress to do so." #PhilTech #spirituality #meditation open.substack.com/pub/unexamin...

22.12.2024 09:30 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Aki Järvinen on Substack If you are interested, like me, in: reflecting on your career in technology reflecting on your relationship to technology finding ways to ’rehome’ yourself and the technologies you’ve surrounded yo...

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20.12.2024 17:56 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The two ’Is’ AI is lacking Part 1: Imagination

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“Congratulations to whoever invents forests” Introducing a field kit concept for the work at the ruins

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Rehoming technology by rehoming yourself

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The Recovering Technologist The beginnings of a book proposal

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14.12.2024 11:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Aki Järvinen is Writing I write the newsletter Unexamined Technology on Substack to share critical views about our current predicament and in particular how technology plays a part in it. One day the material might grow into

In case you are familiar with my #newsletter where I write about topics related to #philtech and #polycrisis, and want to support. I’ve linked to selected posts in the comments! buymeacoffee.com/vung85clsc

14.12.2024 11:29 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 4 📌 0
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The upcoming innovations that will let us keep flying over the hellscapes of environmental disaster A feverish rant about techno-solutionism

Where I rip into tech trends - and kindly ask for a coffee #climate
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13.12.2024 20:05 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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“Congratulations to whoever invents forests” Introducing a field kit concept for the work at the ruins

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19.11.2024 08:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Aki Järvinen | Substack A recovering creative technologist and Ph.D. in search of a correctly proportioned attention to technology. Sharing musings on the process with Unexamined Technology.

If you are interested in

- criticism of technological solutionism

- analyses of technologies’ secondary and tertiary impacts

- philosophy of tech in general

- the hemisphere hypothesis (by Iain McGilchrist) as applied to the above

Please follow and/or subscribe:

unexaminedtech.substack.com

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The Recovering Technologist The beginnings of a book proposal

#PhilTech #Sustainability open.substack.com/pub/unexamin...

15.11.2024 07:55 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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As seen through a field kit for workers in the ruins open.substack.com/pub/unexamin...

29.10.2024 19:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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#philtech open.substack.com/pub/unexamin...

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open.substack.com/pub/unexamin... #philtech

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