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looking is the new reading is the new remembering

Visual essay

Created in response to Max Bruinsma's essay Watching, formerly reading. Aiming to communicate a sense of the skitterish, surface-level ‘continuous partial attention’ state of mind occasioned by new reading and communication technologies/habits.

 

Recommended reading: Proust and the Squid, Maryanne Wolf

 

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looking is the new reading is the new remembering

Visual essay

Created in response to Max Bruinsma's essay Watching, formerly reading. Aiming to communicate a sense of the skitterish, surface-level ‘continuous partial attention’ state of mind occasioned by new reading and communication technologies/habits.

 

Recommended reading: Proust and the Squid, Maryanne Wolf

 

View the essay