Ooh, I'm excited to check out the Myth of Normal after I finish When the Body Says No! The more I learn about trauma the more I see it as the water we swim in.
So much of the way our society is organized from schools to the economy to how we deal with conflict is built in a way that restricts our autonomy and I think traumatizes us all.
I like to think of it using video game analogy: Trauma is like a game mechanic most of us were never even taught. We're charging into battle already afflicted with this debuff and then we're confused as to why we keep losing.
As a feminist. I thought you might want to know that the term “Surveillance Capitalism” was not coined by Johann Hari and that, while his book is really important, he drafts off the work of many women who have been writing about this issue for years. The term was actually coined by Shoshanna Zuboff in a book that has been compared to Marx’s Das Kapital. Sherry Turkle at MIT has been writing about the inpact of technology on humans since the early 2010s.
If you are interested, here are some poorly written blog posts I wrote on these topics back when I had a (now defunct) business attempting to address surveillance capitalism. It was a big failure because at the time, everyone thought I was a boomer (I am gen-x) luddite and now I’m just too burned out to pick it back up again : )
Thanks for the info / recs. I’ll check it out! I didn’t claim Johann Hari coined the term. It’s just the book I was reading on the topic. I also don’t think that Hari writing about a topic that others have written about before him means that he’s co-opting other’s work. But I agree that women often aren’t credited as much as they deserve.
Oh I'm sorry! I thought I heard him get credited for it on your podcast. I think that for me, it's been really frustrating to see men getting a bunch of traction on topics that women have been writing and talking about for years. I think I'm just extra sensitive about it as one of those women. I think you would really dig Zuboff's work - although it is a REALLY dense read. It took me a year to get through it. Talk about a practice of sustained attention! : )
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Ooh, I'm excited to check out the Myth of Normal after I finish When the Body Says No! The more I learn about trauma the more I see it as the water we swim in.
So much of the way our society is organized from schools to the economy to how we deal with conflict is built in a way that restricts our autonomy and I think traumatizes us all.
I like to think of it using video game analogy: Trauma is like a game mechanic most of us were never even taught. We're charging into battle already afflicted with this debuff and then we're confused as to why we keep losing.
Thank you! I’m looking forward to making my way through all of these.
Thank you so much! You totally made me think about book clubs differently. It was never something I had thought of doing, and now I'm joining one. 😀
Hi Clementine:
I love your work so much!
As a feminist. I thought you might want to know that the term “Surveillance Capitalism” was not coined by Johann Hari and that, while his book is really important, he drafts off the work of many women who have been writing about this issue for years. The term was actually coined by Shoshanna Zuboff in a book that has been compared to Marx’s Das Kapital. Sherry Turkle at MIT has been writing about the inpact of technology on humans since the early 2010s.
If you are interested, here are some poorly written blog posts I wrote on these topics back when I had a (now defunct) business attempting to address surveillance capitalism. It was a big failure because at the time, everyone thought I was a boomer (I am gen-x) luddite and now I’m just too burned out to pick it back up again : )
https://www.screentimelifeline.com/blog/surveillance-capitalism
https://www.screentimelifeline.com/blog/crashing-the-boys-club-women-on-digital-wellbeing
Women's voices and ideas get stolen and co-opted by men so often. I thought is was important to bring this up.
Much love and gratitude,
Christina
Thanks for the info / recs. I’ll check it out! I didn’t claim Johann Hari coined the term. It’s just the book I was reading on the topic. I also don’t think that Hari writing about a topic that others have written about before him means that he’s co-opting other’s work. But I agree that women often aren’t credited as much as they deserve.
Oh I'm sorry! I thought I heard him get credited for it on your podcast. I think that for me, it's been really frustrating to see men getting a bunch of traction on topics that women have been writing and talking about for years. I think I'm just extra sensitive about it as one of those women. I think you would really dig Zuboff's work - although it is a REALLY dense read. It took me a year to get through it. Talk about a practice of sustained attention! : )
Thanks for sharing! You made my list for 2023: https://citizenstout.substack.com/p/2023-best-of-highlights-of-my-learning