Jocelyne Murphy
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- American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. - The New York Times4 savers
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In this way, new bookkeeping techniques developed to maximize returns also helped to ensure that violence flowed in one direction,
American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. - The New York Timesn this way, new bookkeeping techniques developed to maximize returns also helped to ensure that violence flowed in one direction
American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. - The New York TimesIn this way, new bookkeeping techniques developed to maximize returns also helped to ensure that violence flowed in one direction
American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. - The New York TimesIn this way, new bookkeeping techniques developed to maximize returns also helped to ensure that violence flowed in one direction,
American Capitalism Is Brutal. You Can Trace That to the Plantation. - The New York TimesIt occurred to me that two of the most straightforwardly beloved digital technologies—podcasts and group texts—push against the attention economy’s worst characteristics. Podcasts often demand sustained listening, across hours and weeks, to a few human voices. Group texts are effectively the last noncommercialized social spaces on many millennials’ phones.
What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away | The New YorkerI began thinking about my selfhood as a meadow of wildflowers that had been paved over by the Internet.
What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away | The New Yorkerthe type of weather where a day of sunshine feels like a stranger being kind to you when you cry
What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away | The New Yorkertotal renunciation” of such a culturally central medium would be, for her, both a moral and a pragmatic mistake, recognizes that this is a time “when everyone from Amazon workers to college students see their margin of refusal shrinking, and the stakes for playing along growing.”
What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away | The New Yorkerby giving the attention economy access to my selfhood, I accrued the professional capital that now allows me to stop doing so, if I want to.
What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away | The New Yorkercost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away | The New YorkerIf I were to go on strike from my nebulously compensated quasi-job as a purveyor of stupid tweets about my writing and my personal problems, there would be no way for me to make that action visible on Twitter without negating its effect: to speak out against something within the confines of the attention economy is, inevitably, to bring it more attention. It is hard to grasp how individual acts of refusal would build collective momentum outside the platforms that they aim to refuse. Last year, after a former employee of the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica revealed that the firm h…
What It Takes to Put Your Phone Away | The New Yorker