Sarah Winckler

“Even with the problem of the filter bubble aside, the platforms that we use to communicate with each other do not encourage listening. Instead they reward shouting and oversimple reaction: of having a take after having read a single headline.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“Life was being a neutral shade of carpet, which neither delighted the senses nor stimulated passion. And if it felt like digging a little mound in the earth and lying in it for a short while, surely he could satisfy it? Anyone could do it. Lie low. Be a rug.”
― Beena Kamlani, The English Problem

“To pay attention to one thing is to resist paying attention to other things; it means constantly denying and thwarting provocations outside the sphere of one’s attention. We contrast this with distraction, in which the mind is disassembled, pointing in many different directions at once and preventing meaningful action.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

“Political ritual requires repetition, consistency, tradition, in order to be reliable. For actions to take meaning everyone has to understand what that meaning is.”
― Matthew Gabriele, Oathbreakers: The War of Brothers That Shattered an Empire and Made Medieval Europe – How Charlemagne's Dynasty Fell and Why It Matters for Understanding Political Collapse