Tag: David Foster Wallace
2 posts tagged "David Foster Wallace".
American novelist and essayist (1962–2008), a defining voice of late-20th-century fiction and literature whose maximalist novel Infinite Jest and essay collections probed addiction, irony, boredom, and the search for meaning in a consumerist culture of endless entertainment. His commencement address This Is Water — on attention, default settings, and choosing what to worship — is a touchstone for the blog's reflections on happiness and the attention economy. His preoccupation with sincerity over irony and the difficulty of a well-lived life place him alongside writers like Cormac McCarthy.
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Bro, Do You Even Lit? Why I Switched to Reading Fiction
Almost all my adult life I've been an infovore obsessed with hoovering up all the knowledge.
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Throw Away Your Television
TV wriggles into our heads and changes our brain function, our reward systems, our moods. Let's pluck out the parasite, and take back control of our lives.
