"Email pruning doesn’t enact work so much as it simulates work: It’s a ritual—like a secular, corporate rosary—which we perform in the hopes that it will somehow help us leave the domain of ineffectual work and re-enter the domain of gratifying productivity."
Ian Bogost is the Ivan Allen College Distinguished Chair in Media Studies in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication; holds a joint appointment in the Shool of Interactive Computing; and also holds an appointment in the Scheller College of Business. Bogost is also a contributing editor at The Atlantic.
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