INFINITE DISTRACTION

t is sometimes argued that contemporary media technologies push individuals into collective action on an industrial scale, without t hem necessarily being aware of it. Yet what if the problem is not that we are all synchronized to the same affective networks and mo ments, but rather dispersed into countless different networks and moments? What if the effect of socalled social media is to calibr ate the interactive spectacle so that we never fully feel the same way as other potential allies at the same moment? While one perso n is fumi...[Read more]