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itt: non-radical books on coping with modernity in general and attention economy in particular.

Also please recommend me something more significant and less gay.

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>>16625907

>> No.16625939

>>16625907
can i get a quick run down?

>> No.16625941

>non-radical
Your use of this phrase indicates the extent to which modernity has already claimed your soul.

Industrial Society and Its Future
Simulacra and Simulation
Psychopolitics
Why Liberalism Failed
The Technological Society

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I've started with reading Shuangzi/Chuang-tzu, and sitting on a bench. What else can I not do? Next up: Heraclitus and Upanishads

>> No.16625959

>>16625939
"Jenny examines how, by paying a new kind of attention - our most precious and overdrawn resource - we can undertake bolder forms of political action, reimagine humankind’s role in the environment, and arrive at more meaningful understandings of happiness and progress."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izjlP9qtmBU

>> No.16625970

>>16625941
fuck I knew I felt something but couldn't quite crystallise what it was

>> No.16626003

>>16625970
I'm here, bro. A friendly ear.

>> No.16626435

is that book worth reading? >>16625959
>>16625907

>> No.16626754

>>16625907
The Soul at Work

>> No.16626792

>>16626435
yes, I'm just interested in the foundations of this school of thought

>> No.16626800

This is just mindfulness with extra steps

>> No.16626816

>>16625959
ahh i see. religious bullshit for atheists. no thanks

>> No.16626850

>>16626816
nah dude, cottagecore at peace with modernity

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>>16626435
no it sucks, i couldn't even finish it

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