New Week #138

It is possible to see one crucial aspect of modernity as an ongoing crisis of attentiveness, in which the changing configurations of capitalism continually push attention and distraction to new limits and thresholds, with an endless sequence of new products, sources of stimulation, and streams of information, and then respond with new methods of ma... See more
theconvivialsociety.substack.com • Attending to the World
We have, he believes, created in our culture “a perfect storm of cognitive degradation, as a result of distraction.”
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
Digital Sabbath: the Partially Offline Society
Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country
Opinion | Tired? Distracted? Burned Out? Listen to This.
nytimes.com