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Bookmark The Enclosure of the Human Psyche - by L. M. Sacasas
Welcome to the Convivial Society, a newsletter about technology and culture.

January 22 2025, 9:25am | Comments
Bookmark Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I. | The New Yorker
On December 15, 1811, the London Statesman issued a warning about the state of the stocking industry in Nottingham. Twenty thousand textile workers had lost their jobs because of the incursion…

February 12 2024, 10:03am | Comments
Bookmark The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic
Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone. Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is…

July 8 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Opinion | They Want Your Attention. Don’t Give It to Them. -…
We need to be more disciplined about feeding the trolls. Last year, I wrote a column about the U.S. World Cup team and the unexpected lesson it taught us on its…

July 26 2020, 12:13pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache How to Pay Attention
Finally sharing the syllabus for this year's iteration of my anthro seminar, "How to Pay Attention": https://nick-seaver.squarespace.com/s/HTPA-syllabus-22.

February 1 2018, 9:09am | Comments
Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments
Bookmark The Perils of Peak Attention | New Republic
“I am alarmed,” wrote Henry David Thoreau in “Walking,” his 1862 essay, “when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit.” The…

November 4 2016, 7:07am | Comments
Bookmark Addicted to Distraction
ONE evening early this summer, I opened a book and found myself reading the same paragraph over and over, a half dozen times before concluding that it was hopeless to continue.…

December 3 2015, 2:39pm | Comments
Bookmark How Going Viral Has Changed Art
In a time when likes, reblogs, and favorites determine what gets seen and what doesn’t, all cultural products, movies, music, writing, and visual art alike, exist in an economy of attention.…

June 15 2012, 5:27am | Comments
Bookmark Losing our minds to the web
Enter Nicholas Carr, a technology writer and Silicon Valley’s favourite contrarian, whose book The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains (Norton) has just come out in the US…

July 1 2010, 6:50am | Comments
Bookmark Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind
In the past, daydreaming was often considered a failure of mental discipline, or worse. Freud labeled it infantile and neurotic. Psychology textbooks warned it could lead to psychosis. Neuroscientists complained that…

June 29 2010, 11:49am | Comments

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