“…for anyone who has a smartphone, this empty time has now been effectively eliminated. In the intensive 24/7 environment of capitalist cyberspace, the brain is no longer allowed any time to idle; instead, it is inundated with a seamless flow of low-level stimulus. Yet boredom was ambivalent; it wasn’t simply a negative feeling that one simply wanted ri…
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