The Internet Vs. The Care of Your Soul
1. No laptop in bed.

1. No internet for at least 30 minutes before you got to sleep.

2. Nothing on your feed reader that posts more than X times per Y.

3. Being bored does not mean you have to check your email.

4. Don’t only read websites related to subjects you know inside and out.

5. For every X feeds that you add to your reader, remove Y.

6. Don’t read email on your phone.

7. If an email upsets you, never respond immediately.

8. Think about the motivations behind the blogs you subscribe to.

9. Don’t read the comments.

"A Slower Internet... requires that dissimilar tasks occur in a diversity of spaces on a multitude of devices. Living with information does not mean that we have to give any type of machine a monopoly over our attention. Slower Internet is a process of cultivating a garden of machines that fit localized, individual desires."

A student makes hundreds of pages of photocopies and takes them home, and the manual labor he exercises in doing so gives him the impression that he possesses the work. Owning the photocopies exempts the student from actually reading them. This sort of vertigo of accumulation, a neocapitalism of information, happens to many. Defend yourself from this trap: as soon as you have the photocopy, read it and annotate it immediately. If you are not in a great hurry, do not photocopy something new before you own (that is, before you have read and annotated) the previous set of photocopies. There are many things I do not know because I photocopied a text and then relaxed as if I had read it.

Outro
Gene McHugh
There's something about an adolescence spent online that's difficult to remember. There’s an embarrassment to dredging these things up. In general, the internet is so focused on the present that it’s difficult to recall what it looked like even a few years ago, a few months ago. It’s like remembering a dream, it doesn’t seem to have actually happened despite the fact that you experienced it.

Beyond that, culture doesn't provide imagery of “early memories” that account for the cyborg experience of being online. What are some of the cliches? Running around in nature, walking up the stairs of an old house, a first kiss—these are physical experiences, not virtual ones.

And yet here we are—“we” being people young enough to have had our social, psychological, sexual, cultural, etc., etc., development massively impacted by the internet and its associated technologies.

One of the contributing artists told me that working on this was like participating in group therapy.