Replay: Growing Roots in a Machine Age with Peco Gaskovski

You probably know

Peco

best from his Substack

Pilgrims in the Machine

, but he’s also the author of "Exogenesis”, an incredible book that belongs in the canon of speculative fiction.

Join me for a wonderful conversation in which Peco and I discuss:

• How he and his wife

  Ruth Gaskovski
  first became aware of how technology encroaches on relationship;

• How to retrain ourselves and our polarized societies in the art of engaging in relationship;

• How good novelists have an empathic resonance with society and catch the zeitgeist of their time;

• How “Exogenesis” is a story about the present disguised as a comfortable dystopian future; and

• The chilling phrase from his novel: “Who we are depends on who’s looking at us.”

Get ready for a great conversation set on the border between technologically-oppressive urban sprawl and idyllic pastures where cattle graze.

~ Deacon Nicholas Kotar