L. M. Sacasas • The Hermeneutical Imperative - The Convivial Society
Working notes for Summer of Protocols
Grant Plotkin • The Story Behind The Edge
With machines coming to seem part of our nervous systems, while increasing their speed every season, we’ve lost our Sundays, our weekends, our nights off—our holy days, as some would have it; our bosses, junk mailers, our parents can find us wherever we are, at any time of day or night. More and more of us feel like emergency-room physicians, perma
... See morePico Iyer • The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere (TED Books)
404 - e-flux
All across our culture, you’ll find people eager to abandon the fundamental task of our lives, fostering and maintaining human connection, so that they can fall deeper into a pit of hedonistic distraction forever. You send an email a large language model wrote for you to spare yourself a minute of mental activity at the end of a long day working f
... See moreFreddie deBoer • You Are You. We Live Here. This is Now.
The “offline world” and the “wilderness” function as vessels for our frustrations with contemporary life: They are defined by what they don’t contain, rather than what they do
The construction of screen time as the moral evil responsible for this fall figures screen time and offline time as two sharply distinct and yet internally homogeneous catego
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