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On becoming an individual in an age of distraction matthew b. He is a contributing editor at the new atlantis, and is also a motorcycle mechanic. Combining an impressive understanding of philosophical thought with the concrete reality of ice hockey, shortorder cooks, motorcycle traffic, and the world of pipe organs, crawford is going to help you grapple with the crisis of attention. Only beautiful things lead us out to join the world beyond our head. It seems appropriate that a book ostensibly about attention should require so much of it, and crawfords taut scholarly prose is perhaps best read.

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