Sublime

of

the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.

ersatz.

George Packer in 2014, in a New Yorker piece detailing Amazon’s takeover of the book industry. With this data,

ameliorated.

As the opportunity for electronic transactions of all kinds becomes omnipresent, there is no vestige of what used to be everyday life beyond the reach of corporate intrusion. An attention economy dissolves the separation between the personal and professional, between entertainment and information, all overridden by a compulsory functionality of com

a burgeoning boredom—as well as a sense of intrusion, that the influence of digital platforms was extending somewhere that it had not theretofore…

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