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Wish I were here : boredom and the interface
- Title
- Wish I were here : boredom and the interface / Mark Kingwell.
- Author
- Kingwell, Mark, 1963-
- Publication
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
- ©2019
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-8961 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xv, 192 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Are you bored of the endless scroll of your social media feed? Do you swipe left before considering the human being whose face you just summarily rejected? Do you skim articles on your screen in search of intellectual stimulation that never arrives? If so, this book is the philosophical lifeline you have been waiting for. Offering a timely meditation on the profound effects of constant immersion in technology, also known as the Interface, Wish I Were Here draws on philosophical analysis of boredom and happiness to examine the pressing issues of screen addiction and the lure of online outrage. Without moralizing, Mark Kingwell takes seriously the possibility that current conditions of life and connection are creating hollowed-out human selves, divorced from their own external world. While scrolling, swiping, and clicking suggest purposeful action, such as choosing and connecting with others, Kingwell argues that repeated flicks of the finger provide merely the shadow of meaning, by which we are reduced to scattered data fragments, Twitter feeds, Instagram posts, shopping preferences, and text trends captured by algorithms. Written in accessible language that references both classical philosophers and contemporary critics, Wish I Were Here turns to philosophy for a cure to the widespread unease that something is amiss in modern waking life."--
- Series Statement
- Outspoken
- Uniform Title
- Outspoken (McGill-Queen's University Press)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Contents
- The condition -- The context -- The crisis -- Ways of going on.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8961
- ISBN
- 9780773557123
- 0773557121
- OCLC
- 1065964566
- Author
- Kingwell, Mark, 1963- author.
- Title
- Wish I were here : boredom and the interface / Mark Kingwell.
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2019]
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- OutspokenOutspoken (McGill-Queen's University Press)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181) and index.
- Additional Formats
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Kingwell, Mark, 1963- Wish I were here. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019 0773557938 9780773557932 (OCoLC)1080220889
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8961