{"id":2262,"date":"2020-06-08T22:17:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-08T22:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/?p=2262"},"modified":"2024-10-03T14:16:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T14:16:08","slug":"the-longing-for-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/the-longing-for-less\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longing for Less"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kylechayka.com\/\">The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism<\/a> by Kyle Chayka:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; we might be able to hold the iPhone in our hands, but we should also be aware that the network of its consequences is vast: server farms absorbing massive amounts of electricity, Chinese factories where workers die by suicide, devastated mud pit mines that produce tin. It is easy to feel like a minimalist when you can order food, summon a car or rent a room using a single brick of steel and silicon. But in reality, it is the opposite. We are taking advantage of a maximalist assemblage. Just because something looks simple does not mean it is; the aesthetics of simplicity cloak artifice, or even unsustainable excess.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Longing for Less: Living with Minimalism by Kyle Chayka: &#8230; we might be able to hold the iPhone in our hands, but we should also be aware that the network of its consequences is vast: server farms absorbing massive amounts of electricity, Chinese factories where workers die by suicide, devastated mud pit mines that&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/the-longing-for-less\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2263,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[41,57,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2770,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2262\/revisions\/2770"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}