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Screens Quotes

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Malcolm Gladwell
“I've been in auditions without screens, and I can assure you that I was prejudiced. I began to listen with my eyes, and there is no way that your eyes don't affect your judgement. The only true way to listen is with your ears and your heart. (p.251)”
Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Eric Overby
“From this point forth, find me nowhere,
Socially unseen,
Just on the back porch, without a care
And without a screen”
Eric Overby, Senses

“People are obsessed with spectacle. We live in the society of the spectacle. People are addicted to the spectacular. They want bigger and better spectacles. They need more and more to keep them stimulated. They crave entertainment. They crave more powerful simulations, more breathtaking special effects, more everything. No one wants POR – plain old reality. Simulation – hyperreality – the simulacrum – these are what the people desire. We all live in Disneyland now – an utter fantasy world. Our true God is Mickey Mouse. At least he’s a lot nicer than Yahweh.”
Adam Weishaupt, Hypersex

“Clean your screens as if you are cleaning your soul, allowing the air to flow through freely.”
Shoukei Matsumoto, A Monk’s Guide to A Clean House & Mind

L.M. Browning
“The pace of this modern age is not conducive to maintaining one’s consciousness. Glued to our electronics, we are blind and deaf to the world around us. Run down by our long work days, we are too exhausted to think and too hurried to feel. The day ends in a haze of strained thoughts, numbness, and fatigue. And we rise the next morning only to start the cycle again.
In this age of distraction, if you desire to fritter away your life with empty diversions, there is an abundance of gadgets available to aid you. Quietness is a characteristic of ages gone by. Our generation is the one it died with. Connected to the virtual world, we ignore the presence of those in our home. One can only hope we will awaken to the need for balance before we look up from the screen to find our loved ones have gone, and our life has passed us by.”
L.M. Browning

Alex Dimitrov
“Doesn’t it bother you sometimes
what living is, what the day has turned into?
So many screens and meetings
and things to be late for.”
Alex Dimitrov

Eric Overby
“Publishing a book,
Watching its ways
Force me to look
At a screen for days

"Be still, be still",
My heart screams for life
But I must check its sales,
It's reviews, its likes.

Another Instagram poet
Who's dying
And doesn't know it,
Untying an underlying

Knot of desire
To be liked and admired
For people to love what transpires
From my mind, but I'm tired

Of the social machine
Producing my insecurity
Hoping someone will follow me
And like all my poetry

From this point forth, find me nowhere,
Socially unseen,
Just on the back porch, without a care
And without a screen”
Eric Overby, Senses

“If anything, screens make me feel life too much. Screens bring hilarious highs and crushing lows... What I'm really missing is just the feeling of neutral. Maybe that's the real value of logging off and going outside—to help us remember what neutral feels like.”
Olivia Jaimes, Nancy: A Comic Collection

Steven Magee
“Working the astronomy night shift required sitting and staring at many computer screens for up to eighteen hours per night for several nights.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“Astronomy was field in which computers were extensively used and in some cases, multiple computers with several screens.”
Steven Magee

Adam Weishaupt
“The simulated perfection that surrounds us is mediated by screens. On every screen we look at it, perfection stares out at us. Screens are everywhere. We are always staring at screens. Cinema screens, TV screens, iPhone screens, computer screens… Screens are omnipresent in our lives. And they are the delivery mechanisms of perfect images of perfect lives. Celebrities, the nobility and the super rich are those with the perfect lives we so envy. They rule the screens.”
Adam Weishaupt, Hypersex

A.D. Aliwat
“Every second spent staring at the screen was a second spent rejecting life.”
A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

Jean Baudrillard
“What are we to do with an interactive world in which the demarcation line between subject and object is virtually abolished?
That world can no longer either be reflected or represented; it can only be refracted or diffracted now by operations that are, without distinction, operations of brain and screen - the mental operations of a brain that has itself become a screen.
The other side of this Integral Reality is that everything operates in an integrated circuit. In the information media - and in our heads too - the image-feedback dominates, the insistent presence of the monitors - this convolution of things that operate in a loop, that connect back round to themselves like a Klein bottle, that fold back into themselves. Perfect reality, in the sense that everything is verified by adherence to, by confusion with, its own image.
This process assumes its full magnitude in the visual and media world, but also in everyday, individual life, in our acts and thoughts. Such an automatic refraction affects even our perception of the world, sealing everything, as it were, by a focusing on itself.
It is a phenomenon that is particularly marked in the photographic world, where everything is immediately decked out with a context, a culture, a meaning, an idea, disarming any vision and creating a form of blindness condemned by Rafael Sanchez Ferlosio: 'There exists a terrible form of blindness which very few people notice: the blindness that allows you to look and see, but not to see at a stroke without looking. That is how things were before: you didn't look at them, you were happy simply to see them. Everything today is poisoned with
duplicity; there is no pure, direct impulse. So, for example, the countryside has become "landscape" or, in other words, a representation of itself ...”
Jean Baudrillard, The Intelligence of Evil or the Lucidity Pact

“.. almost every face and every voice and scrap of language in this world rises up through a screen or wire like something coming to the surface from the bottom of a lake, or on the other side of some mirrored glass where you can’t quite touch it.”
Susan Neville, The Town of Whispering Dolls: Stories

César Aira
“The ends of the screen continued to exceed the fields of meaning and create others that immediately, and almost through the impetus of their unfolding, cut huge and savage zigzags. Astronomy. The ability of parrots and blackbirds to speak. The diesel engine. The Assyrians. Coffee. Clouds. Screens, screens, and more screens. They were proliferating everywhere, and he had to pay close attention to make sure that no sector failed to be sorted. Fortunately, Dr. Aira had no time to notice the stress he was experiencing. Attention was key, and perhaps no man had ever brought as much of it to bear as he did for that hour. If the circumstances had been less serious, if he had been able to adopt a more frivolous perspective, he could have said that the entire procedure was an incomparable creator of attention, the most exhaustive ever conceived to exercise this noble mental faculty. And it did not require an extraordinary person; a common man could do it (and Dr. Aira would have been quite satisfied to become a common man), for the Cure created all the attention it demanded. It wasn’t like those video games, which are always trying to trick it or avoid it or get one step ahead of it; to continue with this simile, it should be said that the operator of the Cure was his own video game, his own screen, and his own decoys, and that far from defying attention, they nurtured it. Despite all this, the effort was superhuman, and it was yet to be seen if Dr. Aira could hold out till the end.”
César Aira, The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira

Gary Chapman
“Screentime that is not purposeful tends to be a waste of time and a negative influence.”
Gary Chapman, Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World

Ryan Gelpke
“After all, being a part of the Shimmering Generation means that we have to endure the potential and endless shimmering of these flickering screens that follow us on every step and drag us closer and closer to an endless addiction cycle! To fight against the urge of staring at these shimmering screens, to lose oneself in the masses of endless information that just causes paralysis.”
Ryan Gelpke, 2018: Our Summer of Creeping Boredom and Beautiful Shimmering

Devika Todi
“Newspapers are printing blank.
White ink on white paper.
Gospel truths of humanity spilled.
But no one can read. No one cares to read.
We switch to blue screens for meaning.”
Devika Todi, Sun On My Hands: A Poetry and Prose Collection