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Surviving the Show: The New Asceticism of Ivan Illich Illich invites us to consider what it might mean to discipline our vision. Doing so may help us reframe our relationship to the digital media ecosystem. L. M. Sacasas Photo by Andre Benz Author: L. M. Sacasas Twitter: @LMSacasas Substack: The Convivial Society Date: November 10, 2021 When we talk about attention we tend to speak as if this faculty had no particular relationship to the activities of the body. This is not altogether surprising if we think about attention as the capacity to focus our thinking on a particular object.

America has been here before. The dawn of radio brought the chaos of privacy, censorship, and fake news. It’s time for legislation that revives the democratic wisdom of that era.