{"product_id":"the-extinction-of-experience-being-human-in-a-disembodied-world","title":"The Extinction of Experience: Being Human in a Disembodied World by Christine Rosen","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe embraced the mediated life--from Facetune and Venmo to meme culture and the Metaverse--because these technologies offer novelty and convenience. But they also transform our sense of self and warp the boundaries between virtual and real. What are the costs? Who are we in a disembodied world?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Extinction of Experience\u003c\/em\u003e, Christine Rosen investigates the cultural and emotional shifts that accompany our embrace of technology. In warm, philosophical prose, Rosen reveals key human experiences at risk of going extinct, including face-to-face communication, sense of place, authentic emotion, and even boredom. Considering cultural trends, like TikTok challenges and mukbang, and politically unsettling phenomena, like sociometric trackers and online conspiracy culture, Rosen exposes an unprecedented shift in the human condition, one that habituates us to alienation and control. To recover our humanity and come back to the real world, we must reclaim serendipity, community, patience, and risk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Extinction of Experience\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautifully expressed ode to the vanishing components of life that remain unplanned, unresearched, and unrecorded. Rosen is an excellent guide, explaining why there's no substitute for seeing, feeling, and touching the world directly.--Adam Alter, New York Times best-selling author of Irresistible\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRosen's is a book of horrors, a catalogue--the best I know of to date--of the various ways in which human experience is being commodified and expropriated by our omnipresent digital apparatus. Her work adds a new dimension to a growing literature of digital skepticism, complementing the efforts of authors such as Nicholas Carr, Matthew Crawford, and L. M. Sacasas.\u003cstrong\u003e--Ian Tuttle \"National Review\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating and timely book about the essential real-world experiences we're watching vanish before our screen-addled eyes. Resisting the lure of nostalgia, but rejecting the glib assumption that more technology is always better, Christine Rosen makes a passionate case for the face-to-face, embodied, analogue, unpredictable, unmediated life, and its centrality to a vibrant and truly meaningful human existence.\u003cstrong\u003e--Oliver Burkeman, author of Meditation for Mortals\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristine Rosen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a columnist for \u003cem\u003eCommentary\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, senior editor at the \u003cem\u003eNew Atlantis\u003c\/em\u003e, and fellow at the University of Virginia's Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. She lives in Washington, DC.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45762424832186,"sku":"9781324116776","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0444\/2213\/5968\/files\/imageloader_707b36d8-2648-48d2-bcf5-eb60a4b0e0d6.jpg?v=1775663052","url":"https:\/\/naturenurture.shop\/products\/the-extinction-of-experience-being-human-in-a-disembodied-world","provider":"nature+nurture","version":"1.0","type":"link"}