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Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
Carl Hendrickcarlhendrick.substack.com
Cérebro no mundo digital: os desafios da leitura na nossa era, O (Portuguese Edition)
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The first is the fact that although it took our species roughly 2,000 years to make the cognitive breakthroughs necessary to learn to read with an alphabet, today our children have to reach those same insights about print in roughly 2,000 days. The second concerns the evolutionary and educational implications of having a “rearranged” brain for lear
... See moreMaryanne Wolf • Proust and the Squid
The reading brain, once forged by sustained attention and deep engagement, is now adapting to an environment built for speed, distraction, and artificial fluency. What we are witnessing is not the end of reading, but rather the end of the essential consolations that reading affords us. Reading, but in ultra-processed form.
Carl Hendrick • Ultra-Processed Minds: The End of Deep Reading and What It Costs Us
The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Sven Birkerts • 8 highlights
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Maryanne Wolf introduces a subtle but urgent concept into the discourse on reading: cognitive patience. It is, at heart, the willingness to linger in difficulty. The capacity to stay with a complex sentence, a knotty idea, a layered argument long enough for meaning to emerge.