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Jenny Odell on attention, where we put it, and how it can polarise society

The Sacred

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My First Memory of an Emotion Is Curiosity

Ike: My first memory of an emotion is curiosity. I was on the border of cupertino and san jose which is not super far from san francisco, but very different. It's the suburbs scruel by the sarao ye, like all the houses we're built in the fifties. And i've been thinking about it recently because i just got a jeweller's loop - you have to get really close to it to use it. Ike: When adults have experiences like that, it reminds them of childhood. Because childhood was the last time when that was really like, encouraged,. more like, really accessible.

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