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Rough Notes: Memory, Identity, and Transformation
- In a discussion that has nothing to do with technology, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre wrote about a tendency to become “forgetful of our bodies.” Perhaps that’s a good way of putting this tendency to assume that digital culture is immaterial and disembodied. We never leave our bodies when we are immersed in digitally mediated experiences, but ... See more
from Forgetting the Body by L. M. Sacasas
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- In the end, to move through the world is to experience encounters that constantly pass us by, and to brush up against moments that we are not able to save other than as an unreliable memory. The increasing popularity of apps like BeReal that capture those moments—rather than try to contain and display them—seems to reflect an embrace of life’s flee... See more
from WePresent | The selves we save and discard in the the social media age
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How Can We Develop Transformative Tools for Thought?
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