"The problem of distraction can just as well be framed as a problem of loneliness."
Always read @LMSacasas: theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/attending-to…
Always read @LMSacasas: theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/attending-to…
"It is possible to see one crucial aspect of modernity as an ongoing crisis of attentiveness, in which the changing configurations of capitalism continually push attention and distraction to new limits and thresholds...
...with an endless sequence of new products, sources of stimulation, and streams of information, and then respond with new methods of managing and regulating perception"
"We are not addicted to devices […] we are addicted to one another, to the affirmation of our value—our very being—that comes from other human beings. We are addicted to being validated by our peers.”
""I like this way of thinking about attention, not as a possession in limited supply, theoretically quantifiable, and ready to be exploited, but rather as a capacity to actively engage the world—to stretch ourselves toward it, to reach for it, to care for it, indeed, to tend it."
One thing I value so much about @LMSacasas's writing is that he is always curating a conversation of thinkers living and dead. This piece coheres into a particularly rich and lovely salon.
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