Smartphone addiction

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catalog

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The rain stopped. I took my Interface out of my pocket and dropped it, stamped on it. There, I thought, no more of that for a while. I walked away from the resulting wreckage, took the nearest turning so as to get it out of sight.
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From @woops novel "Lights"
 
Leo

Leo

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"...and then couldn't find the way home because I no longer had access to Google maps or could call an Uber."
 
C

catalog

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That's like my contention in "Smog" that the plastic coated coffee cup and lid with small opening for sipping is a chalice, a revelation that came to me in Starbucks near Liverpool cathedral.
 
luka

luka

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woops said:
will you be endorsing this story in your next "spectator column"
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millions of people have observed how the far right at one and the same time defines itself partly through its opposition to islamic fundamentalism while also admiring it and seeking to emulate it
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

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Not sure why Shiels was in here liking one of my posts but very funny thread, I wonder if @blissblogger is still hiding his iPhone on top of the wardrobe and if @shiels is still on his Nokia being ultra "focus"ed. I hope so.
 
shiels

shiels

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version said:
"The smartphone is the devotional object of the digital-information regime. As a tool of repression it acts like a rosary,"
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"nowadays we perceive reality primarily in terms of information. As a consequence, there is rarely a tangible contact with reality. Reality is robbed of its presence. We no longer perceive its physical vibrations. The layer of information, which covers objects like a membrane, shields the perception of intensities. Perception, reduced to information, numbs us to moods and atmospheres. Rooms lose their poetics. They give way to roomless networks along which information spreads. Digital time, with its focus on the present, on the moment, disperses the fragrance of time. Time is atomised into a sequence of isolated presents. Atoms are not fragrant.

Only a narrative practice of time brings forth fragrant molecules of time. The informatisation of reality thus leads to a loss of space and time. This has nothing to do with doom-mongering. This is phenomenology."
 
luka

luka

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shiels said:
"nowadays we perceive reality primarily in terms of information. As a consequence, there is rarely a tangible contact with reality. Reality is robbed of its presence. We no longer perceive its physical vibrations. The layer of information, which covers objects like a membrane, shields the perception of intensities. Perception, reduced to information, numbs us to moods and atmospheres. Rooms lose their poetics. They give way to roomless networks along which information spreads. Digital time, with its focus on the present, on the moment, disperses the fragrance of time. Time is atomised into a sequence of isolated presents. Atoms are not fragrant.

Only a narrative practice of time brings forth fragrant molecules of time. The informatisation of reality thus leads to a loss of space and time. This has nothing to do with doom-mongering. This is phenomenology."
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thats true. language itself does that, slides in between you and reality, words slathered all over it, describing and defining it before you have a chance to touch it.
 
shiels

shiels

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I especially like the use of 'membrane' thats how it can feel

the other side is that we can bend time and space at will and create worlds, great! but when all those worlds get mixed up and bombard us all day we cant place ourselves and feel adrift and irritable
 
shiels

shiels

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Like flexi ones with breathable crotch? and office shoes with dynamic bounce in the sole so he can shoot hoops or have a kickabout at lunch with the boys should he choose to but never will
 
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