Fascination Dean G Lampros The acceleration of data collection

The acceleration of data collection threatens to relinquish ephemeral modes of representation to ceaseless processes of computation

perhaps leading to an environment where life can exist

It captures the novelty and excitement of hearing all-pop radio for the first time

Goh does not seek a theorization of failure as something to overcome or turn into a recuperative philosophy or progress narrative

From ravenous bedbugs to penny-pinching landladies

Fascination Dean G Lampros The acceleration of data collectionMost cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of scientific and technological innovation and the kind of dispersed, fragmented attention that characterizes the experience of mass culture. Patrick Kindig's Fascination, however, tells a different story, showing that many fin de siecle Americans were in fact concerned about (and intrigued by) the modern world's ability to