Phones are a mechanism by which the soul leaks from the body. All liminal spaces have been converted into soul spaces. Our minds nearly separate from our bodies in these moments. Ironically, or perhaps fittingly, I had these thoughts while …I don’t really know how to say no. Often I feel as if my whole life is on rails set before me long before I was even born. I cannot defend or substantiate this notion.
We can’t even choose the words that our thumbs emit into our phones. A …
Adam Stoughton
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Adam Stoughton appears as a voice in the readings articulating anxiety about technological mediation of subjectivity—the sense that phones and algorithmic systems have colonized even our most intimate choices, including language itself. His observation that "we can't even choose the words that our thumbs emit into our phones" resonates with cybernetic concerns about feedback loops and control systems that bypass human agency, while his broader meditation on phones as mechanisms through which "the soul leaks from the body" frames digital culture as a threshold where embodied existence becomes untethered. He functions in the course materials less as a theorist than as a phenomenological witness to the dislocating effects of AI and automation on everyday consciousness.
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