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New newsletter/pod: A PHILOSOPHER'S ONE-WORD THEORY OF WHY THE WORLD FEELS SO WEIRD Agnes Callard is a philosopher at the University of Chicago. Today she explains her theory of "the uni-context"—what it is, where it comes from, how it's transformed our experience of being alive, and how it explains: - the modern obsession with distraction and the management of our attention - why everything in art and design seems the same these days - why the news media is so interested in telling you how much the world sucks all the time - how every aspect of modern life becoming a global market makes it so hard to stop comparing ourselves to others - how telecommunications tech—from radio, to TV, to smartphones—succeeds by tapping into our "deep aversion to world closure" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOdvmBSEms8
The Uni-Context Theory of Everything: An edited transcript of my conversation with Agnes Callard https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to
New newsletter/pod: A PHILOSOPHER'S ONE-WORD THEORY OF WHY THE WORLD FEELS SO WEIRD Agnes Callard is a philosopher at the University of Chicago. Today she explains her theory of "the uni-context"—what it is, where it comes from, how it's transformed our experience of being alive, and how it explains: - the modern obsession with distraction and the management of our attention - why everything in art and design seems the same these days - why the news media is so interested in telling you how much the world sucks all the time - how every aspect of modern life becoming a global market makes it so hard to stop comparing ourselves to others - how telecommunications tech—from radio, to TV, to smartphones—succeeds by tapping into our "deep aversion to world closure" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOdvmBSEms8
The Uni-Context Theory of Everything: An edited transcript of my conversation with Agnes Callard https://www.derekthompson.org/p/a-philosophers-one-word-theory-to
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