Extended reach of constant connectivity creates perpetual answerability

Evidence

I knew exactly what would happen the minute I did: that every minute of every day I would in fact be answerable to someone, even if my leash was a lot longer. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 90

Categorization

  • XREF: Echoes the silence/noise material already read — the mechanism here is essentially an info-attention siege at the scale of one workday, matching Berardi later in this same chapter. — connects to: SRC channels of communication induced self-censorship and sycophancy — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 522; Platforms profit from connectivity because sensitivity consumes costly time — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 111; Collective subaltern politics makes the questioner-respondent relation indeterminate — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1507
  • yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: SRC channels of communication induced self-censorship and sycophancy — I.M. Lewis, I. M. Lewis, A Modern History of the Somali_ Nation…, 522; Platforms profit from connectivity because sensitivity consumes costly time — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the…, 111; Collective subaltern politics makes the questioner-respondent relation indeterminate — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1507

Broader Connections