{"id":491,"date":"2025-11-07T06:48:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T06:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/aiming-for-fullness-the-smartphone-eradicates-space-in-the-mind\/"},"modified":"2025-11-16T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T11:20:41","slug":"aiming-for-fullness-the-smartphone-eradicates-space-in-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/11\/07\/aiming-for-fullness-the-smartphone-eradicates-space-in-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Aiming for Fullness: The smartphone eradicates \u201cspace\u201d in the mind."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The swiping, the news cycles, the screaming, the idiocy \u2014 if anything destroys a muse, it\u2019s this. If anything keeps you locked into a fetid loop of looking, looking, and looking once more at the train wreck, it\u2019s this. I find it impossible to feel fullness, even in the slightest, after having spent just a bit of a day in the thralls of the algorithms.<\/p>\n<p>The smartphone eradicates \u201cspace\u201d in the mind. With that psychic loss of space, grace becomes impossible. You see the knock-on effects of this rippling out across the world politically.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/kottke.org\/25\/11\/aiming-for-fullness\">kottke.org\/25\/11\/aiming-for-fullness<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The swiping, the news cycles, the screaming, the idiocy \u2014 if anything destroys a muse, it\u2019s this. If anything keeps you locked into a fetid loop of looking, looking, and looking once more at the train wreck, it\u2019s this. I find it impossible to feel fullness, even in the slightest, after having spent just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,7,22,21],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-consciousness","tag-grace","tag-smartphones"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}