Streams of Unconsciousness

Just posted some thoughts about the streamings of monocultural unconsciousness:

https://anartapart.substack.com/p/dreamstreams

“And how will this change us? Optimistically, we gain a wider republic of stories. A village without a cinema can still host a festival on a Tuesday night. We travel by subtitle; we acquire the grammar of distant lives. The long form affords moral patience, letting characters unfold beyond caricature. But attention, stretched and smoothed by auto-play, loses the useful roughness of intervals. The week between episodes once invited speculation, memory, the embroidery of talk. Compressed into a night, a season flows through us like a river whose banks we scarcely see.”

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