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The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
Many of us now alive are in the unique position of having been so both before and after the revolution of the internet. We’re a lost group — to me, anyway, even now none of my technological habits seem inevitable. There’s still a sense that this vast binge of novelty will stop and we’ll arrive at some levelheaded equilibrium between then and now. T... See more
This instability only intensifies the cultural flattening going on, since users can’t store or revisit their past experiences within their original context.