Forgotten bodies in a headspace world
“It’s part of the whole notion that we are more our thoughts than our bodies. But I can tell you, however common it is, it’s not working well for anyone.”
Satya Doyle Byock • Quarterlife
And I’m suggesting that we fiercely protect our human animality against all technologies that actively ignore and disdain the body, the bodies of other beings, and the body of the landscape that we inhabit.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
Speaking with friends my age, usually the ones who were equally unathletic and unpopular and thus inundated with the content of the grotesque, we share a desire to actively re-sensitize ourselves to the tenderness of human experience.
charlie squire • Digital Graveyards
Humans abstract themselves from reality, drawn into the mirages of the metaverse. The machine, meanwhile, is learning to walk in our physical world, conquering the space we abandon. We have ceased to inhabit space.... See more
A world where education prepares us for a future that no longer exists. Where work produces nomadic bodies, minds evaporated into the c
Thomas Klaffke • Rabbit Holes 🕳️ #109
There’s a collective, almost spiritual outcry for more creativity, meaning, and humanity in our lives. We live in a global society so coercively mechanised and commoditised that many of us feel crushed, burnt out, and more disconnected than ever.
The world feels like it’s accelerated in recent years. The individualist, capitalist dream is in its pri... See more
The world feels like it’s accelerated in recent years. The individualist, capitalist dream is in its pri... See more