A Prescient Warning From 1994 About Dangers Of A Distraction Culture
Writing in 1994, Sven Birkerts worried that distractedness and surficiality would win out. The "duration state" we enter through a turned page would be lost in a world of increasing speed and relentless connectivity, and with it our ability to make meaning out of narratives, both fictional and lived. The diminishment of literature"of sustained reading, […]
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