{"id":1345,"date":"2021-05-25T07:32:37","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=1345"},"modified":"2021-05-25T07:32:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T14:32:41","slug":"essential-reading-from-aeon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/essential-reading-from-aeon\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential reading from Aeon &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Warped Self <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social media makes us feel terrible about who we really are. Neuroscience explains why \u2013 and empowers us to fight back &#8212; Mark Miller and Ben White<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/social-media-and-the-neuroscience-of-predictive-processing?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=0caab6c329-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_24_02_08&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_411a82e59d-0caab6c329-70343981\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/social-media-and-the-neuroscience-of-predictive-processing?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=0caab6c329-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_24_02_08&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_411a82e59d-0caab6c329-70343981<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I have written about the importance of Guy DeBord before:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An essential text for our time is Guy Debord&#8217;s &#8220;<em>The Society of the Spectacle<\/em>.&#8221; We are all complicit in the spell of spectacle and it is making us sick. Debord&#8217;s idea of &#8220;lived time,&#8221; points the way to why I believe dreams are so crucial as the medicine for the future. Debord&#8217;s book is available free at this link:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Flibrary.nothingness.org%2Farticles%2FSI%2Fen%2Fpub_contents%2F4&amp;h=ATO6s4WAdDLXtXywm9iiByaLlndYnaeFz9P5XUKwUjLa4KATAffxE85EjeHd1xr92AKkVjKcVAfJyXcfddUqwrteWp-Br6ZRk5sHy8Jwzkyu8mpH7ycVdndmocaRQPt_xpzQwcRwpNSgzSiAXgRw&amp;enc=AZM-hEzPb8vmbG8ZFqcQmTxRFRP4Es05mMhTHDS9TFFWfjqYyjdxp-54tGRrT62eyQOZ186lchedUUOA6Pido_FKbS9XafUYpIFHWlU6zIcwlkpVxJxqyFCM7f3TjxbAfA7yGt619dmJhBMJR5mOxuBNfXTyok25ublDSuJ_UqIa46qPtD5oYApa2vVoWyEFdgw&amp;s=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Situationist International Text Library\/The Society of the Spectacle<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Situationist International Text Library\/The Society of the Spectacle<br \/>Self-proclaimed leader of the Situationist International, Guy Debord was certainly responsible for the longevity and high profile of Situationist ideas, although the equation of the SI with Guy Debord would be misleading. Brilliant but autocratic, Debord helped both unify situationist praxis and des\u2026<br \/>library.nothingness.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Warped Self Social media makes us feel terrible about who we really are. Neuroscience explains why \u2013 and empowers us to fight back &#8212; Mark Miller and Ben White https:\/\/aeon.co\/essays\/social-media-and-the-neuroscience-of-predictive-processing?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=0caab6c329-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_05_24_02_08&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_411a82e59d-0caab6c329-70343981 I have written about the importance of Guy DeBord before: An essential text for our time is Guy Debord&#8217;s &#8220;The Society of the Spectacle.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1345"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1348,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1345\/revisions\/1348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}