{"id":30445,"date":"2019-02-15T19:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mathewingram.blog\/?p=30445"},"modified":"2019-02-15T19:57:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T19:57:00","slug":"patricia-lockwood-%c2%b7-the-communal-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2019\/02\/15\/patricia-lockwood-%c2%b7-the-communal-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Patricia Lockwood \u00b7 The Communal Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This piece by Patricia Lockwood in the London Review of Books, which she also gave as a lecture, is really quite extraordinary in the way it describes what it&#8217;s like to have your brain infected by the viral Internet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The amount of eavesdropping was enormous. Other people\u2019s diaries streamed around her. Should she be listening to the conversations of teenagers? Should she follow with such avidity the compliments rural sheriffs paid to porn stars, not realising that other people could see them? She lay every morning under an avalanche of details, blissed: pictures of breakfasts in Patagonia, a girl applying foundation with a hardboiled egg, a shiba inu in Japan leaping from paw to paw to greet its owner, white women\u2019s pictures of their bruises \u2013 the world pressing closer and closer, the spider web of human connection so thick it was almost a shimmering and solid silk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v41\/n04\/patricia-lockwood\/the-communal-mind\">Patricia Lockwood \u00b7 The Communal Mind: The Internet and Me \u00b7 LRB 21 February 2019<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This piece by Patricia Lockwood in the London Review of Books, which she also gave as a lecture, is really quite extraordinary in the way it describes what it&#8217;s like to have your brain infected by the viral Internet. The amount of eavesdropping was enormous. Other people\u2019s diaries streamed around her. Should she be listening &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2019\/02\/15\/patricia-lockwood-%c2%b7-the-communal-mind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Patricia Lockwood \u00b7 The Communal Mind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}