Joel Halldorf

📖 Author of ”Reading Matters” (NYU Press)
🍎 professor in Church history
🖊 Book history; religion and politics – esp. evangelicalism
🗞️ Expressen
💨 Vit Rök

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

Andrew Tate has gotten books wrong – they are supposed to be slow.

My first contribution to my favorite American magazine, @TheAtlantic

https://t.co/WxmLpkOtl6

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

More on this point here, or in my book "Reading Matters: A History for the Digital Age" which is out next week.

https://t.co/WxmLpkOtl6

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

Reading books trains attention, patience & our ability to grasp complex ideas. But that won’t solve the reading crisis. Being told “it’s good for you” is the intellectual equivalent of “finish your vegetables.”

If we want to save reading, we must remember that it is a pleasure!

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

This is exactly right: restoring reading is not simply a matter of individual willpower. It means rebuilding the ecosystem that makes it possible – books, "houses of reading" (as George Steiner called them) sustained attention, and so on

https://t.co/Y5c5gOH1XU

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

The mood over at left-wing twitter after the Pope's encyclica 😄

[Flamman @Flamman_]

Ingen med makt verkar våga utmana techindustrin.

Därför har en oväntad motståndsledare seglat upp: påve Leo XIV, vars första encyklika är en skoningslös uppgörelse med Silicon Valleys makt, skriver kyrkhistorikern @joelsh.

https://t.co/B1UBRwjTDU

[Vatican News @VaticanNews]

You can now listen to an audiobook of Pope Leo XIV’s Encyclical Magnifica humanitas!
https://t.co/q7Ug6IY55I

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

@MTMehan @DouthatNYT @roddreher Jacobs is such a lovely reader. And writer, of course.

Speaking of, I think this ties well into the Jennifer Frey-episode from last week. Take Alan's word for it!

https://t.co/FjuUwzFBgc

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

Release next week: "Reading Matters: A History for the Digital Age".

Happy for these kind words from Alan Jacobs: "A thoughtful, engaging, humane, and hopeful read about the value of books. Halldorf weaves together his sources in ways that spark new insights and connections."

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

More here:

https://t.co/FFWKXT9RLx

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

Release next week: "Reading Matters: A History for the Digital Age".

Happy for these kind words from Alan Jacobs: "A thoughtful, engaging, humane, and hopeful read about the value of books. Halldorf weaves together his sources in ways that spark new insights and connections."

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

Historically, reading has often been connected and sustained by social movements. I discuss this further in "Reading Matters: A History for the Digital Age"

https://t.co/FFWKXT9RLx

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

This is exactly right: restoring reading is not simply a matter of individual willpower. It means rebuilding the ecosystem that makes it possible – books, "houses of reading" (as George Steiner called them) sustained attention, and so on

https://t.co/Y5c5gOH1XU

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

Pope Leo’s Gandalf-quote at the end of the encyclical has received a lot of attention - but surely this is also an allusion to the Lord of the Rings!

From paragraph 16 of Magnifica Humanitas

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

@VinAmbleNaess Ja, det är själva syftningen. Men här byter han till plural, och då får formuleringen ett eko av andra torn

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

Pope Leo’s Gandalf-quote at the end of the encyclical has received a lot of attention - but surely this is also an allusion to the Lord of the Rings!

From paragraph 16 of Magnifica Humanitas

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

@wfrpgeek @Edward_Blom Med "allegori" menar Tolkien berättelser som har en "ett-till-ett" mening – typ att Aslan ÄR Jesus.

Att en berättelse speglar kristna grundmönster hade han inget emot. Han kallade bara inte det allegori (men jag trycker, som Edward, att det också är en form av allegori)

[Taimaz Ghaffari @TaimazGhaffari]

Spike Lee går casually runt med Pope Leo #14 NYK tröja

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Taimaz Ghaffari @TaimazGhaffari]

🚨🎙️ Mitt i en växande protestvåg mot AI i USA och den globala AI-kapplöpningen publicerar påve Leo en encyklika – ett försvar för mänskligheten i mötet med tekniken.

[Joel Halldorf @joelsh]

AI-encyklikan är ute och internet exploderar. Samlat ihop memes, reaktioner från politiker som JD Vance & techjättar och djuplodande analyser på Vit Rök

https://t.co/TL9FsmSWLh

[Taimaz Ghaffari @TaimazGhaffari]

⚔️🚫 Påven vill avväpna AI. Samtidigt hamnar techjätten Anthropic i fokus, JD Vance i ännu en rävsax och college-studenter i protest.

❗️ Det som händer nu beskrivs som den största moraliska och populistiska utmaningen mot AI-utvecklingen sedan ChatGPT förändrade spelplanen 2022.

Varför händer det här just nu? Vad vill påven – och hur mycket kan det egentligen påverka världens mäktigaste teknikbolag, som i praktiken fungerar som ekonomins lokomotiv?

🚨🎙️ I LoungePodden: Niklas Laninge, psykolog och techexpert, samt Joel Halldorf, kyrkohistoriker och teologiprofessor.

@Laninge @joelsh