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To repeat a formulation I used in the previous chapter, if choosing replaces doing for the mouse-clicking Mouseke-doer, it figures that such a disengaged self should be especially pliable to the “choice architectures” that get installed in public spaces. As we shall see, in the darker precincts of capitalism things are being designed to foster disengagement, to the point of inducing a kind of autism.
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction
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