Our social networks provide us with a false sense of timeless connectedness while actually fostering a profound disconnection. We’re connected but can’t connect. Social feeds lack a sense of time, permanence or place, and so there is nothing to contextualise ourselves against; there’s nothing to belong to.

Myth and Metrics: How social media robs us... See more

In entertainment, as in dining, modernity has transformed a ritual of togetherness into an experience of homebound reclusion and even solitude.