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The Age of Distraction - Reading, Writing, and Politics in a High-Speed Networked Economy (Paperback)
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The Age of Distraction - Reading, Writing, and Politics in a High-Speed Networked Economy (Paperback)
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Connections between time, technology, and the processes of reading
and writing make clear the links between experiences of what appear
to be quite different phenomena. Reading and writing have
functioned together in a particular way to build the world as we
have known it for three thousand years. These interacting processes
have now been transformed at their core and are building a
different world, one where certainties of the previous era are
disappearing and being displaced by what the author sees as a
chronic and pervasive mode of cognitive distraction. Robert Hassan
offers a perspective permeated by a sense of history, beginning
with the invention of writing and the development of the skill of
reading. Together with technological developments, these provide a
unique view of the trajectory of modernity into late-modernity, and
illustrate how the arc of progress has transformed. New modes of
time, technology, and reading and writing are helping create a
faster world where we know less about more and forget what we know
evermore quickly. What is the "time" of a thought? Is it possible
to measure thinking? Can we consider knowledge or information, or
reading and writing, as having temporal "rhythms"? These are
questions Hassan tries to answer. So unfamiliar are we to thinking
in such terms that they sound impossible. To a significant degree,
time, thinking, and many forms of knowledge are the fruits of
subjective experience. We connect experiences at superficial
levels, where people have different experiences that may be
objectively the same, but our interpretations will always diverge
in respect of the "reality" we confront. This intersection of
philosophy and communication takes the reader into new realms of
analysis.
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