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Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age: Quarterly Essay 72 (Paperback, 72nd edition)
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Net Loss: The Inner Life in the Digital Age: Quarterly Essay 72 (Paperback, 72nd edition)
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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 thinkers have cultivated the deep
self, and seen value in solitude and reflection. But today, with
social media, wall-to-wall marketing and the agitation of modern
life, everything feels illuminated, made transparent. We feel
bereft without our phones and their cameras and the feeling of
instant connectivity. It gets hard to pick up a book, harder still
to stay with it. Without nostalgia or pessimism, 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 sense 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
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