L. M. Sacasas on Substack
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L. M. Sacasas on Substack
context collapse creates a “lowest-common-denominator philosophy of sharing [that] limits users to topics that are safe for all possible readers.”4
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
While writing would allow far more knowledge to be preserved and accessed, it would also relieve individuals of the burden of sustaining collective memory themselves. Like writing and print, our use of digital media ordinarily generates an archive (as well as a trail of data, often invisible to users but of great value to others). But although digi... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Analog City and the Digital City
he was trying to tell us that what afflicted the people in Brave New World was not that they were laughing instead of thinking, but that they did not know what they were laughing about and why they had stopped thinking.
Neil Postman • Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
In Praise of Print: Why Reading Remains Essential in an Era of Epistemological Collapse
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