[Commlist] New Book: The Analogue Idyll: Disconnection, Detox, and Departure from the Digital World

Alexander Taylor is happy to announce the publication of a new edited 
collection: /_The Analogue Idyll: Disconnection, Detox, and Departure 
from the Digital World 
<https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollbook/book/9781529233728/9781529233728.xml>_/, 
edited by A.R.E. Taylor, with a foreword by Trine Syvertsen.

/Once upon a time, before the internet, before social media, and before 
smartphones, there existed an analogue world where people lived slower, 
simpler, and healthier lives. This is the analogue idyll: a compelling 
narrative that we increasingly encounter in contemporary culture that 
celebrates the virtues of analogue media and offline experiences./

/This timely book explores the growing salience and significance of the 
‘analogue’ in our increasingly digital world. Sales of vinyl records and 
cassette tapes are at an all-time high. The board game industry is 
booming. Typewriter repair shops are opening. Digital detox retreats are 
proliferating. Cafes are banning smartphones with the hope of rekindling 
vanishing forms of pre-digital socialising. /

/But is this nostalgic retreat into the analogue past the solution to 
the problems of our digital present? Bringing together scholars from the 
social sciences, arts and humanities, each chapter of this book 
introduces a different perspective on the return of the analogue, 
raising critical questions about the meaning of technology in our lives 
and societies today, as public debates about the addictions, 
distractions, and harms of digital culture accelerate./
//

*Table of Contents (some chapters available open access – see below)*
**
*Foreword*
/Trine Syvertsen/
**
*Chapter 1*
The Analogue Idyll: A New Myth for the Post- Digital Age? *(**_open 
access available here 
<https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781529233728/ch001.xml>_**)*
/A.R.E. Taylor/
*Chapter 2*
Analogue Labour: The Mass Craft and Post- Digital Logistics of Making 
and Selling Vinyl Records
/Michael Palm/
*Chapter 3 *
‘We Don’t Have Wi- Fi, Talk to Each Other’: Digital Disconnection in the 
Hospitality Industry
/Alexandra Kviat/
*Chapter 4*
Digital Representations on the Appalachian Trail: Wilderness as a Post- 
Digital Experience
/Dave McLaughlin/
*Chapter 5 *
Finding Digital Distance: Digital Detox and Conspicuous Disengagement
/Paul O’Connor/
*Chapter 6*
Analogue Celebrity: Digital Refusal Among the Rich and Famous* (**_open 
access available here 
<https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/edcollchap-oa/book/9781529233728/ch006.xml>_**)*
/A.R.E. Taylor and Neil Ewen/
*Chapter 7 *
Selling the Promise of Presence: How Companies Promote Digital Detox 
‘Products’ in Denmark
/Malene Hornstrup Jespersen, Annika Isfeldt, and Kristoffer Albris/
*Chapter 8 *
‘I Meditate Because My Mind Has Numerous Tabs Open’: Dis/ connecting 
(in) Mindfulness Apps
/Linda Kopitz/

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