---Distraction and its Discontents--- Ebbs and flows in social media sensibility By Geert Lovink http://networkcultures.org/geert/2018/03/27/distraction/ <http://networkcultures.org/geert/2018/03/27/distraction/> (full version) https://www.eurozine.com/distraction-and-its-discontents/ <https://www.eurozine.com/distraction-and-its-discontents/> (short version) German translation of the full version in the new edition of Lettre International Spanish translation here: https://andoenpando.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/https-andoenpando-wordpress-com... <https://andoenpando.wordpress.com/2018/04/01/https-andoenpando-wordpress-com-2018-04-01-geert-lovink-la-distraccion-y-sus-descontentos-altos-y-bajos-en-la-sensibilidad-de-las-redes-sociales/> Disillusion with social media only stimulates the search for ever more refined techniques of manipulation. Detoxing won’t help: it is collective action, not will power, that can free us from the permanent state of distraction. More later on the strategies of #deletefacebook. Geert