analogue renaissance
My friend Melanie Hoff and I were at a bar, and she just casually referred to the phone as a sex toy because it’s how we have sex with people. We send nudes, we watch porn, we listen to erotica. It’s also very haptic: it vibrates, it’s pressure sensitive
Dazed • Is Your Phone a Sex Toy? Mindy Seu Says Yes
People like to point out that screens never appear in our dreams, suggesting that deep down we all long to get off our phones, but as I’ve wondered before, maybe it’s just that the dream is the screen, our phones framing our reality so comprehensively that we already think we live inside of them.
teenage engineering
teenage.engineering
Granting the premise that the phone is an antidote to living, though, I was wondering: what is it I personally don't want to live through? If I paid attention, at precisely the moments my attention tried to veer away, what would I find I was doing and feeling and thinking? What about existence makes me reach for my pocket?
Tom Scocca • Screening out consciousness
Not using a phone taught me what a phone is really for. It’s not for communicating with other people, getting directions, reading articles, looking at pictures, shopping for products, or playing games. A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive. This is what all its functions and features ultimately achieve: cameras deliver... See more
When using our devices, we’re pulled into and solely focused on the glowing world that exists on the screen. We lose both an awareness of self and of the real world context surrounding us. This extension aims to disrupt that trance and remind you that you are here and your computer is there and you are just staring at it and... wow is that really... See more
