This is intended to be a collection of research on a host of related topics: neoliberalism, neopuritanism, self-absorption, digital landscapes, digital communities, self-help, the indie web movement, luddites, ...............
Article/book/video/audio/etc hoard:
The Disappearance of Rituals
Intimacy and the Machine: Godposting- or: New Internet Esotericism
Why I Fucking Hate Weblogs
Interview with a teen luddite
Your attention didn't collapse, it was stolen
How to live without your phone
Beginning notes:
boredom is necessary. Be bored.
proof of life; not online you're not alive. amplified when you're lonely, but the anxiety exists even if you're not (How To Live Without Your Phone); "A phone is a device for muting the anxieties proper to being alive." "Their entire waking lives are spent filling time, plastering over the gaps, burning up one day after another, waiting for something to happen, and it never does."