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In today's state of hyperactivity, where boredom is not allowed to emerge, we never reach the state of deep mental relaxation. The information society is an age of heightened mental tension, because the essence of information is surprise and the stimulus it provides. The tsunami of information means that our perceptual apparatus is permanently stimulated. It can no longer enter into contemplation. The tsunami of information fragments our attention. It prevents the contemplative lingering that is essential to narrating and careful listening . . . In the process of digitalization, . . . information acquires an altogether different status. Reality itself takes on the form of information and data. For the most part, we perceive reality in terms of information or through the lens of information. Information is an idea—that is, a re-representation. When reality takes the form of information, the immediate experience of presence withers. When digitalization gives everything the form of information, reality is flattened.
Byung-Chul Han, The Crisis of Narration
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“Belief and doubt are not two forms of knowledge… for neither of them is a cognitive act; they are opposite passions. Belief is a sense for becoming, and doubt is a protest against any conclusion that goes beyond immediate sensation and knowledge.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments
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George Brecht, Poem (For R.M. Rilke), ca. 1962-1964, MoMA, New York, NY [The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Fluxus Collection] [© 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / VG Bild-Kunst, Germany]
Source: moma.org
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