Great essay on the dehumanizing effect of "appify-ing intimacy" and turning bodies into product. Many wonderful quotes & observations.
(h/t @chaosprime)
https://americanmind.org/essays/worse-than-a-crime-a-bumble/ …pic.twitter.com/jWim7W1WVS
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"Transacting", "trusting", "investing" are all aspects of "relating" and are demarcated by brighter or fuzzier lines depending on the particular domain of human interaction, and also the social and cultural context of the interactors. 1/n
However... No matter where one chooses to draw the line, it seems to me that intimacy is almost definitionally the "zone of stuff that cannot be (or should not be) transacted". There is a fundamental tension between those two concepts. Increasing Intimacy means deeper relating.
Any reads on this pov?
in my head i have @sarahdoingthing credited as talking about it but i can't find anything matching my vague memory, maybe she can point at something
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