Scholars on the topic of individual and collective attention convene to discuss the impacts of prolonged social isolation and selfishness on attention.
A Roundtable on COVID-19 and The Attention Economy
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Restarting the Gun Debate: Suicide After COVID-19
With a tragic personal link, Paja Faudree delves into one of the most underrecognized aspects of gun violence in America: self-harm.
In Praise of Pilsa, the Highly Uncreative Korean Method of Learning to Write
Colin Marshall discusses a maligned yet effective method of learning in Korea.
Their Understanding of Who We Are: Talking to Dipayan Ghosh
Andy Fitch interviews Dipayan Ghosh about what tech companies actually do with the data they collect and his book "Terms of Disservice."
The Act of Seeing
Breanna Chia thinks about the disservice of dodges and well-meaning, noncommittal sympathies in the context of the murder of James Scurlock.
Beware of Old Statues
Elizabeth Archibald thinks about the destruction and vengeance of statues.
The Road from Montenegro
Olja Knezevic writes about returning to Podgorica.
Who’s Rereading Virginia Woolf?
"Woolf’s novel was written as part of a broader intellectual quest, around a century ago, for the right words and metaphors to account for inner life..."
Concentrating on Social Meaning: Talking to Ramya Krishnan
Andy Fitch talks with Ramya Krishnan about distinguishing speech from data and what constitutes protected speech in digital spaces.
The Patience of the Hand: On Elias Canetti’s Crowds and Power and Our Current Crisis
Seth Lerer rediscovers truth in Elias' Canetti's "Crowds and Power."
