Sublime

contemporary compulsion to produce robs things of their endurance [Haltbarkeit]: it intentionally erodes duration in order to increase production, to force more consumption.

Die technologischen Möglichkeiten der digitalen Protokollierung von immer mehr Lebensspuren laden heutzutage dazu ein, ein auf das Individuum zielendes diagnostisches Instrumentarium der Risikoklassifikation anzuwenden. Der über uns schwebende Datenschatten, der unser soziales, politisches und ökonomisches Leben beschreibt und nachverfolgt, kann oh

It also poses the question of whether current forms of electronic separation and perceptual management are part of conditions that would inhibit or deflect the processes Sartre details.

the quick succession of bits of content displayed on a smartphone makes any lingering impossible.

Marker is working at a moment when, in France and elsewhere, there is a growing sense of the deadening effects of a standardized and image-saturated culture.

rather the remaking of attention into repetitive operations and responses that always overlap with acts of looking or listening. It is less the homogeneity of media products that perpetuates the separation, isolation, and neutralization of individuals than the larger and compulsory arrangements within which these elements, and many others, are cons

Even in the ambulatory space of big department stores, eye-tracking scanners provide detailed information about individual behavior—for example, determining how long one looked at items that one did not buy. A generously funded research field of optical ergonomics has been in place for some time. Passively and often voluntarily, one now collaborate