Put down your phone and engage in boredom how philosophy can help with digital overload

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News Source : The Conversation Africa

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  • Heidegger feared that under the dominance of technology, humanity might lose its capacity to relate to ‘being itself’ Digital culture revolves around speed, visibility, algorithmic selection, and the compulsive generation of content.
  • Heidegger’s “forgetting of being” now manifests as the loss of boredom itself.
  • When we flee from boredom together, the possibility of an authentic “I’ disappears into the infinite deferral of collective mimicry, writes Mehmet Sebih Oruc.
Vectorium/ShutterstockIt feels like there are so many things constantly vying for our attention the sharp buzz of the phone, the low hum of social media, the unrelenting flood of emails, the endle [+5741 chars]

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