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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just finished the New Yorker piece on performative reading. Actual performative reading signals insecurity because of its inauthenticity and is decidedly middle class as are the folks poking fun and making a spectacle of it on social media. However, foregoing social media and reading difficult literature for pleasure (and authentically) is becoming a higher status thing due to the brain rot that the proliferation of algorithmic social media and smart phones has caused in our society.

Whether it’s authentic or not, I certainly think more highly of someone reading a physical book than I do the hordes of phone addicted zombies scrolling endlessly on the metro. If nothing else, maybe this trend will improve our reading habits!

Change my mind![/quote]

Why should anyone try to change your mind?! You feel the need to be manipulated by the masses - it just means you are the MC rube your post is about.  Just have an opinion - who cares what others or the New Yorker says.  I don’t do social media and never “performatively” read (whatever that is).  I do listen to audible and go through a book or two a week.  When I’m on vacation I actually read the real deal page turning and all.  Audible just lets me get my steps in and “read”.[/quote]

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