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We are depleted by the pace and structure of contemporary life, particularly by how spatial and temporal boundaries that provided modest respites from the demands others could place on us have been eroded by the capacities of digital technology. Now we are always on and always available, our freneticism masquerading as flexibility. We are also... See more
L. M. Sacasas • What You Get Is the World
This is an observation about human rationality as much as it is about the epistemic conditions generated by life in what Jay Bolter has aptly termed the digital plentitude and which I usually call the Database. We are not as narrowly rational in our thinking as many would like to believe. Which is why conventional “solutions” to the problems... See more
L. M. Sacasas • Digital Inception
We might say, then, that the conditions of pervasive digitization have rendered the full range of human experience a text to be interpreted. Condemned to preform ever more baroque hermeneutical maneuvers we are deprived the satisfactions of a naive experience of reality. Perhaps this accounts for the widely-reported sense of unreality that plagues... See more
L. M. Sacasas • The Hermeneutical Imperative - The Convivial Society
Among these social supports are rights and practices of privacy, as well as other rights and practices against information, be they limitations over access to knowledge of our pasts or resistance to the over-documentation of human life. We do not have to think that this supports a right for individuals to affect every instance in which their lives
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