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Why it's important to think about social media use as a form of dissociation, rather than addiction

Dissociation can be a healthy part of cognitive functioning, provided it doesn’t get in the way of your goals.

The power of silence in a deafening world

This noise makes claims on our consciousness. It colonizes pristine attention. It makes it harder to focus on what’s in front of us, to manage our mind’s impulses, to notice, to appreciate, and to preserve open space: the

‘We risk being ruled by dangerous binaries’ – Mohsin Hamid on our increasing polarisation

Literature, fortunately, is a profoundly weird creature, capable of being zero and one at the same time. This characteristic is of vital importance. Profound weirdness is quite possibly what our age of the cyborg most demands. A strange