occultI've published a new essay on my website.
“Into the Dark Wood: The Right to Be Unknown.”
Oblivion, autonomy, surveillance, and resisting a world that refuses to let us disappear.
ravenbrook@occult firstly, lovely paintings, it fits the piece very well.
i am in a position like many others where carrying a phone is kind of required and i hate every second of it. im relatively young so i never really had the experience of not having a phone or something like that and it is really quite oppressive. turning off notifications for a lot of apps can help, and i am glad that, apart from this and tumblr, i dont use social media
nothing is like sitting by the sea with no online connection.
@ravenbrook Thank you for taking the time to read it!
It’s a challenge, for me as well, as I do need to keep a device on me for various reasons.
One can find a compromise, tune those notifications to an appropriate level, avoid the attention vortexes and dopamine traps.
I wrote it as a reminder that life still goes on without constant connectivity.
@occult yes, tuning is the most we can do, and it does help tremendously. for the most part i have stopped doing things like watching youtube, substituting that with reading blogs and such (jcs.org and cat-v are some of my favourites right now). i find that they suck less life out of me, and dont trap you in an attention vortex as you rightly described it as.
i think it was a great piece to write and tremendously well done, i look forward to your future writings.