{"id":3946,"date":"2022-03-27T20:38:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T20:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2022-03-27T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T20:38:08","slug":"blurry-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2022\/03\/blurry-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Blurry now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>\u201cThis was the dawn of a new digital-era way of experiencing time, something we\u2019ve since become totally familiar with. And <strong>every gain in consumer-empowering convenience has come at the cost of disempowering the power of art to dominate our attention<\/strong>, to induce a state of aesthetic surrender. Which means that <strong>our gain is also our loss<\/strong>. It is also becoming very clear that the brittle temporality of networked life is not good for our psychological well-being; it makes us restless, erodes our ability to focus and be in the moment. We are always interrupting ourselves, disrupting the flow of experience.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Simon Reynolds in Retromania.<\/p>\n<p>Bro. It really explains well how ten years later we are now slugging through mountains of art and entertainment, how we are basically intellectual zombies. My good friend R was telling me last week how he downloaded a new album and listened to it without listening to it. How he didn\u2019t understand what had changed, why he didn\u2019t enjoy music as much as before (he\u2019s a big music fan).<\/p>\n<p>We have too much. We don\u2019t make any choices. We are drowning. <\/p>\n<p>And it feels like there is no end. It\u2019s one of the most bizarre thing about the West today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis was the dawn of a new digital-era way of experiencing time, something we\u2019ve since become totally familiar with. And every gain in consumer-empowering convenience has come at the cost of disempowering the power of art to dominate our attention, to induce a state of aesthetic surrender. Which means that our gain is also our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}