A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation Barba-Kay Antn
A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation Barba-Kay Antn There no longer seems any point to criticizing the internet. We scroll through routine complaints about the deterioration of…
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A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation Barba-Kay Antn
There no longer seems any point to criticizing the internet. We scroll through routine complaints about the deterioration of our attention spans. We indulge in the latest doom-mongering about the evils of social media-on social media.
Yet our unthinking surrender to its effects-to the ways it recasts our aims and desires-is itself digital technology's most powerful achievement. We resign ourselves to hating the internet even as we spend much of our waking lives with it. A Web of Our Own Making examines how online practices are reshaping our lives outside our notice.
Barba-Kay argues that digital technology is a 'natural technology'-a technology so intuitive as to conceal the extent to which it transforms our attention. He shows how and why this technology is reconfiguring knowledge, culture, politics, aesthetics, and theology. The digital revolution is primarily taking place not in
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