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Rogue Intensities by Angela Rockel

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March 2020, no. 419

Rogue Intensities by Angela Rockel

UWA Publishing, $26.99 pb, 346 pp

Rogue Intensities by Angela Rockel

by
March 2020, no. 419

‘How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,’ writes Annie Dillard in The Writing Life, her timely appeal for presence over productivity in modern life. Turning the page on a new year reminds us of the seasonality of time, its familiar cycles of life, death, and rebirth. But flipping through the empty pages of a calendar can also remind us that time is a human construct designed to regulate our lives for maximum efficiency and output. In today’s attention economy, where time is treated as a currency by the technologies we use to satisfy our animal need for connection, how might we rediscover the joy of being present in a moment, a body, a community, a place? In other words, how are we to live?

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