Isbn: 9798188497910 - against the feed: the case for a daily reading ritual in the age of infinite content (4 risultati)

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - You did not lose your attention. It was taken - and you were compensated with infinity. Every morning, billions of people wake and reach for a feed that never ends, never concludes, and never remembers what it told them yesterday. We have more text than any civilization in history - and less sense of where we stand in our own lives. Against the Feed argues that what the feed displaced was not silence but a technology older than the printing press: the edition. The bounded, dated, finished daily reading - the newspaper morning, the almanac, the sky checked at dawn - that told a person: this is today, it has a shape, and it will be kept. This is not another digital detox book. It offers a replacement, not a subtraction: a daily reading with a beginning, an end, and a memory - a line you keep, return to, and check against your life. Inside: why rituals died and metrics replaced them - what the edition gave humans for five centuries - why infinite personalized content cannot create meaning - what a machine that writes should actually do - the four rooms of meaning - knowing, editing, publishing, reading - and the manifesto for a reading life in the age of infinite text. A sustained argument, not a quick-tips guide - a full book that treats the daily reading of the sky as a serious practice. If you want five bullet points, this is not your book. If you want the case, it is.…

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. You did not lose your attention. It was taken - and you were compensated with infinity. Every morning, billions of people wake and reach for a feed that never ends, never concludes, and never remembers what it told them yesterday. We have more text than any civilization in history - and less sense of where we stand in our own lives. Against the Feed argues that what the feed displaced was not silence but a technology older than the printing press: the edition. The bounded, dated, finished daily reading - the newspaper morning, the almanac, the sky checked at dawn - that told a person: this is today, it has a shape, and it will be kept. This is not another digital detox book. It offers a replacement, not a subtraction: a daily reading with a beginning, an end, and a memory - a line you keep, return to, and check against your life. Inside: why rituals died and metrics replaced them - what the edition gave humans for five centuries - why infinite personalized content cannot create meaning - what a machine that writes should actually do - the four rooms of meaning - knowing, editing, publishing, reading - and the manifesto for a reading life in the age of infinite text. A sustained argument, not a quick-tips guide - a full book that treats the daily reading of the sky as a serious practice. If you want five bullet points, this is not your book. If you want the case, it is. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…