Only Disconnect | The New Yorker
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Two cheers for boredom.
Save this story Save this story We’re under constant assault by connectivity, receptivity, the tyranny of the now. Illustration by Miguel Gallardo On November 16, 1924, Siegfried Kracauer, a luminary in the literary world of the Weimar Republic, published a feisty essay in the Frankfurter Zeitung . Trained as an architect, Kracauer was an acute observer of modernity and its impact on life in the city. He followed in the footsteps of his onetime teacher Georg Simmel, the sociologist whose 1903 essay “The Metropolis and Mental Life” argued that overstimulated urban dwellers were prone to develop
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