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(With the exception of Japan and South Korea, of course.)
It's like I still could occasionally catch some Cambodian rock'n'roll around a corner: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i3QPTefh7bQ
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No, because these things don’t isolate us from each other. You have a number of couples in the photographs that are close physically yet miles and miles apart.
Oh yes let's all remember 2005 when no one ever looked in the mirror and everyone in big city public transport held hands and sung folk songs on their morning commute.
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No, because these things don’t isolate us from each other. You have a number of couples in the photographs that are close physically yet miles and miles apart.
Are you honestly saying that this (neat) art piece, which is of carefully curated shots taken over months, is general proof that phones are some fundamentally different mode of isolation, compared to any other tool that humans have had?
The second noteworthy distinction is phones' ability to solve many different problems as well as provide many different willful distractions in a very accessible manner. A tool that can be both productive and entertaining requires a higher amount of willpower to use productively without succumbing to the desire to use it for entertainment.
Some of the most productive coding I've done has been in places where there was no internet to temp me with distractions.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/07/camp-...
>Some people feel something is amiss in their relationships, and that technology is to blame. There's a move, cataloged in nearly every magazine, towards seeing the offline as authentic and the online as hollow, false, unreal. This may be a false distinction, digital dualism, as Nathan Jurgenson calls it, but it's a widespread reaction to the technologies at hand.
>The vision promises that if it weren't for all the damn new stuff (like watches), we'd all be sitting around sharing the parts of ourselves that we're ashamed of, supporting others in their most meaningful endeavors, and paying mind only to worthy causes and ideas.
>I refuse to accept that the only good response to an imperfect technology is to abandon it. We need more specific criticisms than the ever-present feeling that "'something's not right." What thing? Developing a political agenda to remake, improve, or forbid technologies requires some sort of rubric: how can I judge what I'm using? What are the deleterious impacts? How are they specific to these media and this time? Which effects are caused by the technologies and which are enabled by the technologies and which just happen to occur through the technologies? What are the ethics? What are the mechanics? What is the baseline?
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Would you think the same of an art project that removed, say, watches from people's wrists as they check the time? Or maybe hammers from the hands from people working in construction?
Would love to see this picture with the phones and cameras removed: https://artsmetaphor.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Mona-Lis...
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Are you honestly saying that this (neat) art piece, which is of carefully curated shots taken over months, is general proof that phones are some fundamentally different mode of isolation, compared to any other tool that humans have had?
I would actually be interested to hear you explain why, in terms of social isolation, phones are not a fundamentally different mode of isolation than any other human tool.
Pretty goofy looking without a cellphone There's one where the phone was covering a lady's face (USA set). I wonder how they did that. Photoshop must be magic
In his video he approaches people on the street and asks them to pose without the phone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8TsV3IExYg
CGTN is funded in whole or in part by the Chinese government
Screenshot: https://screenshotscdn.firefoxusercontent.com/images/7bd277c...
The black and white takes away a lot of the impact, it's too bad.
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Are you honestly saying that this (neat) art piece, which is of carefully curated shots taken over months, is general proof that phones are some fundamentally different mode of isolation, compared to any other tool that humans have had?
I would actually be interested to hear you explain why, in terms of social isolation, phones are not a fundamentally different mode of isolation than any other human tool.
