Accident and Accessibility

I was intrigued by Brown’s analysis of the accident, particularly the idea that if we were to memorialize accidents, we would need to do so with the understanding that accidents do not exist without the technology involved, that they are therefore not accidents at all (82). As he quotes Virilio as saying, “The shipwreck is…

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On Cognitive Dispersion: The Shift from Deep Attention to Hyper Attention in The Digital Age 

The rise of digital technologies has deeply shaped how people, especially youths, attend to information and tasks. Katherine Hayles makes a profound argument that the extensive use of digital technologies catalyzes a generational shift in cognitive modes and capacities. She explains that deep attention refers to the sustained, rigorous focus on a single object, text,…

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