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haptalaonArticle: Disconnection Reading List
First of a series of posts for this weekend about disconnection/the web - this one's focus is on sacred texts. They ought to be read one at a time, and reflected on; there's also a collection of quotes for study and contemplation, and also to give you a feel for what each of the texts is like.
The concept of the Reading List is, essentially, a stand in for the Bible - and in particular, it's inspired by my Jehovah's Witness in laws. They practice Bible Study - the organisation sends out magazines for members, who then get together once a week to go through an article and discuss it together. I don't like organised religions, and I don't like the ritualistic-consensus I overhear murmured from the living room at these times - somewhere between a get together over tea and cake, and a collective enforcement of groupthink, where friends are tasked to police one another's devoutness.
Nonetheless, this idea of meeting a couple of like-minded friends for a religious book group has really stuck with me - as an activity both social and spiritual, a spiritual practice in its own right - not just a medium through which spirituality is achieved.
I mention this, I suppose, to communicate my intentions for this post - which is not that you skim read it and give me a like, but make time to engage with each of the texts in turn. The internet trains us to engage in certain ways, but ultimately it's just a set of tools for delivering texts to one another; I'm not sure what the etiquette is for dictating how someone ought to engage with your content, or if such etiquette has ever been developed. (And I'm a hag for attention, so like, also skim read it if that's what your level of interest is)
But what I want to communicate is my intention for how posts in this series are there for: part booklist for students, part Bible.
Also, it's immensely satisyfying to get this post into the wild at long last. I think I read The Machine Stops like, three years ago at this stage? Which should give you a sense of the Fencraft gestation period/my project procrastination pattern. If you only read one text from the article, make it that one.
First of a series of posts for this weekend about disconnection/the web - this one's focus is on sacred texts. They ought to be read one at a time, and reflected on; there's also a collection of quotes for study and contemplation, and also to give you a feel for what each of the texts is like.
The concept of the Reading List is, essentially, a stand in for the Bible - and in particular, it's inspired by my Jehovah's Witness in laws. They practice Bible Study - the organisation sends out magazines for members, who then get together once a week to go through an article and discuss it together. I don't like organised religions, and I don't like the ritualistic-consensus I overhear murmured from the living room at these times - somewhere between a get together over tea and cake, and a collective enforcement of groupthink, where friends are tasked to police one another's devoutness.
Nonetheless, this idea of meeting a couple of like-minded friends for a religious book group has really stuck with me - as an activity both social and spiritual, a spiritual practice in its own right - not just a medium through which spirituality is achieved.
I mention this, I suppose, to communicate my intentions for this post - which is not that you skim read it and give me a like, but make time to engage with each of the texts in turn. The internet trains us to engage in certain ways, but ultimately it's just a set of tools for delivering texts to one another; I'm not sure what the etiquette is for dictating how someone ought to engage with your content, or if such etiquette has ever been developed. (And I'm a hag for attention, so like, also skim read it if that's what your level of interest is)
But what I want to communicate is my intention for how posts in this series are there for: part booklist for students, part Bible.
Also, it's immensely satisyfying to get this post into the wild at long last. I think I read The Machine Stops like, three years ago at this stage? Which should give you a sense of the Fencraft gestation period/my project procrastination pattern. If you only read one text from the article, make it that one.
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Date: 6 September 2020 13:24 (UTC)But it might be because I found Deep Work so life-changing and I’d had years of delving into it before the other came around. (It is my book to revisit when I’m about to embark on a serious Disconnection mission.) ...And when I’m doing something I want to be doing, I’m not much good at separating out “work” from “life.”
I’ve started a Common Place Book as well, based on the Reading Practice. I’m a bit behind on updating it, but such is the way of life....