Re: <nettime> Suggestion for discussion

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hello Sawyer, 

Your thesis / themes reminds me of Jori Brown's doc ( from 2017 ) called Stare Into The Lights My Pretties... ( and other great shorts he's made that lead to that film  ) :

https://jore.cc/w/stare-into-the-lights-my-pretties/

And it's still a very crucial topic...
but with all sorts of new grim accelerations ...

of 
- techno-colonialism + 
- disembodiment of information
- over-mediated lives + psyche
- weaponization of communications...
etc..

Just a few angles we've ( The XLterrestrials ) have written about over the years.

which probably require radical rethinking, strategies, resistance ...
  
We're a bit scattered with other tasks atm, so just a short answer here...
If there's time, can maybe share more resources / thoughts later ( off list.? )
 
For now...

Might recommend... if you haven't already encountered... 

Nicholas Carr's Superbloom (2025 )
https://www.nicholascarr.com/?page_id=664

gets pretty deep into the psychological + societal impacts...
if i remember correctly. 

cheers!
podinski


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> Hi Nettime community,
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> I had emailed about a month ago requesting feedback on my thesis topic. I'm
> now reaching out in hopes of receiving reflections about how The Screen
> (any and all digital/pixelated interfaces that allow for communication,
> entertainment, work, etc.) has changed what it's like to be in a body in
> the world and how, if at all, your experience of sharing space with and
> perceiving others has changed.
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> My thesis works with J.J. Gibson's theory of affordances to argue that The
> Screen is making us less attuned to affordances in the world, and so is
> challenging mutual perception and embodied existence, both of which are
> crucial to agency. Thus, The Screen is a threat to agency. I'm conducting
> an existential phenomenology, so am hoping to gather first-person
> perspectives on the experience of this phenomenon.
> Thank you for your attention,
> Sawyer
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