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Unplug Your Life: Digital Detox Through a Kierkegaardian Lens
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Joke Bauwens
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12. September 2019
Abstract
Our engagement with social media, smart and mobile technologies is ambiguous and raises existential questions about the naturalness and desirability of hyper-connectivity. On the one hand, we benefit from using these technologies in organizing and socializing our everyday life. On the other hand, they further complicate our lives. Hence, in recent years, more and more people choose to abstain from digital media by taking on a so-called ‘digital detox,’ a period of living without these technologies. In this article, we look at ‘digital detoxing’ from an existential perspective by introducing Kierkegaard’s existential categories of repetition and recollection to tackle the question whether ‘dropping out’ is a meaningful act or a temporary respite. What would it mean, so we ask, to find a proper balance in a world that demands constant connectivity?
Online erschienen: 2019-09-12
© 2019 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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- Front matter
- Title pages
- Preface
- Contents
- Articles
- Section 1: Problems and Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Authorship
- Section 1: Problems and Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Authorship
- Kierkegaard’s Aesthete in Either/Or: Using Hegelian Mediation in Everyday Life
- Kierkegaard on the Dancers of Faith and of Infinity
- Climacus’ Miracle: Another Look at “the Wonder” in Philosophical Fragments through a Spinozist Lens
- Naked Before God: Kierkegaard’s Liturgical Self
- Das palimpsestische Selbst. Zur Genese, Struktur, Darstellung und Vermittlung von personaler Identität nach Sören Kierkegaard
- Das Verhältnis von Selbstwerdung und Gott bei Sören Kierkegaard. Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme
- Kierkegaard’s Secret Politics of Anguish and Love
- Kierkegaard as a Thinker of Alienation
- To Be(come) Love Itself: Charity as Acquired Originality
- Section 2: Kierkegaard’s Authorial Strategies
- Section 2: Kierkegaard’s Authorial Strategies
- Pseudonyms? What Pseudonyms? There were no Pseudonyms…
- A Prompter’s Play? Kierkegaard’s Puzzling Portrait of Authorial Withdrawal in “An Occasional Discourse”
- Kierkegaard’s Authorship as Eucharistic Liturgy
- Section 3: Kierkegaardian Resources for Current Debates and Challenges
- Section 3: Kierkegaardian Resources for Current Debates and Challenges
- Defiance Before the Law: Kierkegaard, Kafka, Coetzee
- Existence Philosophy as a Humanism?
- Towards a Kierkegaardian Retreating of the Political
- Weird Allies? Kierkegaard and Object-Oriented Ontology
- Unplug Your Life: Digital Detox Through a Kierkegaardian Lens
- “Out into the Middle of Life”: The Age of Disintegration and Ecological Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Thought
- Back matter
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Front matter
- Title pages
- Preface
- Contents
- Articles
- Section 1: Problems and Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Authorship
- Section 1: Problems and Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Authorship
- Kierkegaard’s Aesthete in Either/Or: Using Hegelian Mediation in Everyday Life
- Kierkegaard on the Dancers of Faith and of Infinity
- Climacus’ Miracle: Another Look at “the Wonder” in Philosophical Fragments through a Spinozist Lens
- Naked Before God: Kierkegaard’s Liturgical Self
- Das palimpsestische Selbst. Zur Genese, Struktur, Darstellung und Vermittlung von personaler Identität nach Sören Kierkegaard
- Das Verhältnis von Selbstwerdung und Gott bei Sören Kierkegaard. Eine kritische Bestandsaufnahme
- Kierkegaard’s Secret Politics of Anguish and Love
- Kierkegaard as a Thinker of Alienation
- To Be(come) Love Itself: Charity as Acquired Originality
- Section 2: Kierkegaard’s Authorial Strategies
- Section 2: Kierkegaard’s Authorial Strategies
- Pseudonyms? What Pseudonyms? There were no Pseudonyms…
- A Prompter’s Play? Kierkegaard’s Puzzling Portrait of Authorial Withdrawal in “An Occasional Discourse”
- Kierkegaard’s Authorship as Eucharistic Liturgy
- Section 3: Kierkegaardian Resources for Current Debates and Challenges
- Section 3: Kierkegaardian Resources for Current Debates and Challenges
- Defiance Before the Law: Kierkegaard, Kafka, Coetzee
- Existence Philosophy as a Humanism?
- Towards a Kierkegaardian Retreating of the Political
- Weird Allies? Kierkegaard and Object-Oriented Ontology
- Unplug Your Life: Digital Detox Through a Kierkegaardian Lens
- “Out into the Middle of Life”: The Age of Disintegration and Ecological Perspectives in Kierkegaard’s Thought
- Back matter
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
