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Fracturing the affordance space: an account of digitalized alienation.
- Source :
- Frontiers in Psychiatry; 2024, p01-09, 9p
- Publication Year :
- 2024
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Abstract
- This paper investigates the lived experience of alienation as a form of mental strife or pathology as it is connected to the digitalization of modern life. To do so, I deploy the concept of affordances from ecological psychology, phenomenology, and embodied cognition. I propose an affordance-based model for understanding digitalized alienation. First, I argue that the lived sense of alienation is best understood as a fracturing of the affordance space, where possibilities for action are lived as disconnected from one another and therefore from one's personal development and search for meaning. Using this model, I show how the process of digitalization can lead to a lived sense of alienation for modern subjects. On this model, digitalization is alienating insofar as it fractures the affordance space into disconnected fields that invite determinate, separate, and repeatable tasks--swiping, clicking, scrolling, etc.--rather than offering opportunities for the development of new cognitive and bodily skills that are mutually informing and enriching across different affordance fields. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16640640
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 179707741