The Analog Insurrection
Disconnection used to be the default. Now it is a luxury good, and the price of staying unreadable is quietly sorting us into two classes.
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Disconnection used to be the default. Now it is a luxury good, and the price of staying unreadable is quietly sorting us into two classes.
Silence is not an absence. It is the withdrawal of unpaid labour, and the reaction it provokes shows you exactly who was being subsidised.
The attention economy doesn't want your attention. It wants your arousal. Boredom is the one state it can't sell, which makes it a labour tactic.