Currently reading: Stand Out of Our Light by James Williams 📚
Social Inequalities of the Attention Economy
“This increasing self-regulatory burden may pose a unique challenge for those living in poverty, who, research suggests are more likely to begin from a place of willpower depletion relative to everyone else. . . . [T]he wider implications here is that these problems of self-regulation in the face of information abundance . . . carry large implications for the societal goals of justice and inequality. If the first ‘digital divide’ disenfranchised those who couldn’t access information, today’s digital divide disenfranchises those who can’t pay attention.” James Williams, Stand Out of Our Light 📚
Currently listening: new vinyl acquisition, My Favorite Things by John Coltrane 🎵
Currently reading: The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger 📚
Yet trees are not ‘trees’, until so named and seen -
and never were so named, till those had been
who speech’s involuted breath unfurled,
faint echo and dim picture of the world,
but neither record nor a photograph,
being divination, judgement, and a laugh,
response of those that felt astir within
by deep monition movements that were kin
to life and death of trees, of beasts, of stars:
free captives undermining shadowy bars,
digging the foreknown from experience
and panning the vein of spirit out of sense.
J.R.R. Tolkien, “Mythopoeia”
Finished reading: The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist 📚
Equal parts fascinating, prophetic, frustrating, provocative.