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Consumption is also a practice of appropriation.
Consumption is not just the greedy ingestion of the Other that leaves the consuming subject unchanged. The things we appropriate, with which we surround ourselves, create the substance of our selves in the first place.
Hyperculture
Byung-Chul Han and Daniel Steuer
And true play, Gordon Neufeld insists, is not outcome-based: the fun is in the activity, not the end result. Free play is one of the “irreducible needs” of childhood, and it’s being sacrificed to both consumerism and the digital culture.
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté, MD
One exercise I find useful is to hold on to different levels of tension in your body, from complete relaxation to spikes of frozen alertness. By consciously holding on to your bodily reactions to environmental tempo changes, for a little longer than they would normally last, you can train yourself to be more aware of them.
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