'acedia' in The Twittering Machine | Bookmarker

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(Greek) spiritual or mental sloth; apathy; a state of listlessness or torpor

The way the chronophagic machine fights for our attention recalls what Eastern Christianity used to call the demon of acedia

—p.200 by Richard Seymour

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