Techs on Texts

Episode #22: Marta Regn on “Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom” by Ted Chiang

  • "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" on Wikipedia - note the fan art book cover
  • Read "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" on Medium
  • Or buy Exhalation: Stories, the collection containing this story
  • The Weathering Podcast – More discussions of Earth systems, chaos, and the meaning of life from Marta, Marshall, and Alden
  • Kierkegaard's The Concept of Anxiety on The Marginalian
  • Stoner by John Williams
  • No Way Recordings on YouTube

More show notes at https://techsontexts.net/episodes/2025/11/chiang-marta-regn/

Next month, we'll talk about "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" by Jorge Luis Borges.

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Produced by Jed Sundwall. Write to jed at techsontexts.net with feedback and suggestions for books or guests.

Intro music by Secret School.

Outro music is "3/10th of the Population" by WE™.

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