War of the Words: Is your phone changing how you think?
The Bunker – News without the nonsense
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Show Notes
Our always-on digital world is changing how we read, which means it’s altering how our minds work. Literary critic Sven Birkerts, author of Changing the Subject: Art and Attention in the Internet Age, tells Andrew Harrison how the act of reading is fundamentally different when the printed word is just part of an ever-changing multiplex – and why the state reading puts you in is more important than the words on the page (or the screen).
- “A book used to be an escape, but now the outside world is always insistently present.”
- “It’s harder to get inside your own head when there is so much to escape from.”
- “Audiobooks are fine but you can’t process a literary sentence at the speed of a voice.”
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Written and presented by Andrew Harrison. Lead Producer: Jacob Jarvis. Producers: Jacob Archbold and Jelena Sofronijevic. Assistant producer: Kasia Tomasiewicz. Audio production by Jade Bailey. Music: Kenny Dickinson. Group editor: Andrew Harrison. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production.
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