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The writer, the thinker, the dreamer, the poet, the metaphysician, the observer…he who tries to solve a riddle or to pass judgement will become an anachronistic figure, destined to disappear from the face of the earth like the ichthyosaur and the mammoth.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
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home than elsewhere, increasing efficiency of communication and of controlling human behavior can, instead of liberating us into the air like birds, fix us to the ground like toadstools. All information will come in by super-realistic television and other electronic devices as yet in the planning stage or barely imagined. In one way this will enabl
... See moreAlan Watts • The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
In March 2019, heavy rains in California led to a brilliant carpet of orange poppies in Walker Canyon, part of a 500,000-acre habitat reserve in the Temescal Mountains southeast of Los Angeles. Run by a state conservation agency, the reserve was mainly a local attraction until a twenty-four-year-old Instagram and YouTube influencer with tens of tho
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Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
the much faster-paced contemporary world, most of us cannot afford. (Montesquieu didn’t have Instagram to distract him from contemplating Raphael canvases.) Following the suggestions of the Netflix home page, for example, offers a shortcut.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture
We have become tiny, relatively wealthy cogs in giant, efficient machines. And yet, in our quiet moments, we reverberate with private longings to give our multitudinous selves expression.
Alain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
The algorithm is God,”