attention is sacred
exploring the sacred nature of "attention"
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attention is sacred
“Our respect for attention is in decline. Timeless and eternal truths are forgotten in favor of breaking news and "what's trending."
Instead of deliberately choosing what to consume, we surrender to opaque algorithms that don’t always have our best interests in mind.
The alternative is an intentional and self-directed information diet - the pursuit
... See morewhen you create a social reality with no connection to a deeper divine essence, and not alignment to a value greater than itself, you get lost in a maze where essential human values and relationships are mimicked endlessly and blindly in a chaos of hollow repetition. Then, as now, the only way out is to connect to the sacred; to an experience that... See more
Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
The first digital ad was displayed in 1994 on hotwired.com — the ad had a click-through rate of 44%, compared to an average of 0.46% for online display ads last year.
Opinion | Chris Hayes: I Want Your Attention. I Need Your Attention. Here is How I Mastered My Own. - The New York Times
Chris Hayesnytimes.comThis isn’t the same kind of attention we give to our Instagram and TikTok feeds. It is a ritualised form of intentional presence directed to a shared sense of meaning and history. In The Disappearance of Ritual , the philosopher Byung-Chul Han argues that our digital communication sacrifices this kind of deep attention and intensity with something... See more
Alexander Beiner • Myth and Metrics: How Social Media Robs Us of Ritual, and How to Revive It
What risk are we radically underestimating as a species? What are we overestimating?
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
I think we’ve still underestimated the harms of scrolling. I am careful to say “scrolling” because I don’t think social media is itself a bad thing, nor do I think screens are uniformly bad. I think it’s specifically the act of scrolling, which forces us to ingest,... See more
Nadia Asparouhova • Nadia Asparouhova on antimemetics, nuclear mysticism, and scrolling
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom
Almost anything you give sustained attention to will begin to loop on itself and bloom
The limitations and possibilities of using computational models, specifically AI, in environmental inquiry and the implications of a systems view of the environment.
Linkclose attention inevitably facilitates transformation. Tsing calls this “the arts of noticing”, tactics for thinking without either the abstraction produced by quantification or deeply held assumptions of progress. If we are “agnostic about where we are going, we might look for what has been ignored”