Attention Stuffed - Dissent Magazine
Dr. Cardona elaborates:
“We have built a civilization that distrusts spontaneous well-being. In its place, we offer
conditional worth: achievement through effort, pleasure through purchase,
enlightenment through productivity. The ecstatic is unearned, and thus feared.”
The result is a neurocultural paradox: a society addicted to stimulation, but allerg... See more
“We have built a civilization that distrusts spontaneous well-being. In its place, we offer
conditional worth: achievement through effort, pleasure through purchase,
enlightenment through productivity. The ecstatic is unearned, and thus feared.”
The result is a neurocultural paradox: a society addicted to stimulation, but allerg... See more
Homegrown Humans
... See moreThe development of digital technology like this has made spectacle increasingly privatized and solitary. I think it's hard not to conclude that there is a relationship between the rise of solitude in modern life and this process of ever more specific individuation of our attention. The central source of our diversion in the attention age has grown