The State of the Culture, 2024

Ted Gioia honest-broker.com

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Desire, Dopamine, and the Internet

L. M. Sacasas theconvivialsociety.substack.com

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How the Internet Turned Us Into Content Machines

Kyle Chayka newyorker.com

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Hyperconnected Culture and Its Discontents

Rogers Brubaker noemamag.com

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You Are You. We Live Here. This Is Now.

Freddie DeBoer freddiedeboer.substack.com

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It’s Time to Dismantle the Technopoly

Cal Newport newyorker.com

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The consequence of our content-addicted culture is non-stop diversion from having to come to grips with the big questions of reality, of life. The American social scientist Herbert Simon wrote: “The wealth of information means a dearth of something else—a scarcity of whatever it is that information consumes. What information consumes is rather obvi... See more

Luke Burgis • The Case for Silence

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Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly

Adam Mastroianni experimentalhistory.substack.com

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Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked

Adam Alter • 1 highlight

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