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If neurasthenic sensitivity was the hallmark of nineteenth-century invalidism, a kind of hyperpersonalized concern with wellness is the hallmark of twenty-first-century invalidism—a quality that lets the rest of us dismiss the invalid as fussy or oversensitive while we get back to our frenetic, endlessly connected, productive lives.
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“the idea of facing the normal flow of time is unbearably depressing,” the journalist Richard Seymour wrote in The Twittering Machine (2019). Or as the tech critic Max Read has put it, “The actual point of ‘screen time’ is the time part—the hours it allows you to numbly burn up.”
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