DANIEL ADLEMAN lived many places before settling in Vancouver, where he completed his Literature PhD at UBC. His ongoing project explores potential conjunctures of media-ecological thought, the new rhetoric, literary studies, and psychoanalysis. In 2012, Daniel co-founded the Vancouver Institute for Social Research, a critical theory free school. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Toronto's Innis College, where he teaches Digital Rhetoric and Writing for Social Change. I call this peculiar form of self-hypnosis Narcissus narcosis, a syndrome whereby [we] remain[ ] as unaware of the psychic and social effects of [our] new technology as a fish of the water it swims in. As a result, precisely at the point where a new media-induced environment becomes all-pervasive and transmogrifies our sensory balance, it also becomes invisible.
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