Isbn: 9781760640712 - net loss: the inner life in the digital age: quarterly essay 72 (2 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Good. The text and covers are curved. The copy shows minor external wear, but is in otherwise clean condition.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 98 pages. We live in an age of constant distraction. Is there a price to pay for this? In this superb essay, renowned critic Sebastian Smee explores the fate of the inner life in the age of the internet. Throughout history, artists and think ers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitude and reflection. Bu t today, with social media, wall-to-wall marketing and the agitation of modern l ife, everything feels illuminated, made transparent. We feel bereft without our phones and their cameras and the feeling of instant connectivity. It gets hard t o pick up a book, harder still to stay with it. Without nostalgia or pe ssimism, Sebastian Smee evokes what is valuable and worth cultivating- he guides us from the apparent fullness of the app-filled world towards a more complex se nse of self, and the inner life. If we lose this, Smee asks, what do we lose of ourselves? Every day I spend hours and hours on my phone . . . We are all doing it, aren't we? It has come to feel completely normal. Even when I put my device aside and attach it to a charger, it pulses away in my mind, like the throat of a toad, full of blind, amphibian appetite. Sebastian Smee, Net Loss.…