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Mark Carrigan

Raiding the inarticulate since 2010

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  • Distracted from distraction by distraction

  • The moral force of attention and its psychic foundations

  • Distracted from distraction by distraction

  • Trying too hard is symptomatic of a mind divided

  • How often do you interrupt yourself?

  • Setting your own technological rhythm

  • “My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies”

  • The eye-on-the-object look

  • Do we romanticise pre-digital life?

  • The macro-economic costs of distraction

  • The widespread sense of homo distractus

  • The economics of attention vs the sociology of attention

  • The spiritual death of the digital age

  • The attention sinks which stop us dreaming

  • A cybernetics of distraction?

  • a DDoS attack on the human will  

  • Taking distraction seriously as a political factor  

  • The consolation of kitsch

  • The phenomenology of cultural bingeing

  • Time-packing and space-packing

  • What does distraction mean for political theory and political philosophy?

  • Moral Responsibility in an Age of Distraction

  • Quit social media

  • The necessity of selection

  • Work Life Balance + Digital Conference

  • “The second I walk through those doors, all my problems go away. The second I leave them, my problems are back”

  • The Blizzard of Photography

  • Sustaining your focus throughout the working day

  • “feeling more or less alive on different days”

  • the tinderization of everyday life

  • enjoying it: candy crush and capitalism

  • the joys of being-in-the-zone

  • acronyms seriously suck 

  • my brain has too many tabs open: the problem of attention in digital capitalism

  • digital distraction and human concern 

  • liberating yourself from leisure activities

  • Reflexivity and the Social Production of Distraction

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