Superbloom: Quotes
How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
Book by Nicholas Carr
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With rich psychological insights and vivid examples drawn from history and science, Superbloom provides both a panoramic view of how media shapes society and an intimate examination of the fate of the self in a time of radical dislocation. It may be too late to change the system, Carr counsels, but it’s not too late to change ourselves.
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The Mirrorball Self
"The looking-glass self has turned into the mirrorball self, a whirl of fragmented reflections from a myriad of overlapping sources. We see bits of ourselves in the responses (or nonresponses) to our posts. We see bits of ourselves in all the messages we receive and send. And because we know the feed algorithms are tailoring all the content we see to their assessment of who we are, we see bits of ourselves in everything else as well. We piece together a self-image, as best we can, out of 'shattered edges.'"
Section: 3, Chapter: 7
Worldliness As Resistance
"To argue for a more material and less virtual existence is not to make a case for materialism alone. As the ambitions of Andreessen, Zuckerberg, and the other evangelists of virtual reality make clear, it's virtuality that reduces all concerns to the materialistic. Hyperreality is all surface and no depth. Beyond the simulation lies nothing at all, as Baudrillard saw. Any attempt to transcend reality, intellectually, artistically, or spiritually, has to begin from within reality, bounded by constraints of time and space. You can only get beyond the material by going through the material, by suffering and surmounting its frictions."
Section: 3, Chapter: 10
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