Bright Eyed by RM Vaughan

Author:RM Vaughan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781770564091
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: 2015-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

One of the forms of disempowerment within 24/7 environments is the incapacitation of daydream or of any mode of absent-minded introspection that would otherwise occur in intervals of slow or vacant time. Now one of the attractions of current systems and products is their operating speed: it has become intolerable for there to be waiting time while something loads or connects. When there are delays or breaks of empty time, they are rarely openings for the drift of consciousness in which one becomes unmoored from the constraints and demands of the immediate present. There is a profound incompatibility of anything resembling reverie with the priorities of efficiency, functionality, and speed.

The very systems that demand (and profit from) the spontaneous creativity of their workers are at the same time negating spontaneity and the generation of new ideas by erasing the ‘openings,’ as Crary puts it, wherein the mind wanders off the immediate task or situational problem to gain inspiration. In the fantasy world of the 24/7 economy, the production model is a perpetual motion machine that somehow runs without fuel. Eventually, the motor will grind to a shattering stop.

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