The Analogue Idyll
Disconnection, Detox and Departure from the Digital World
Edited by Alexander Taylor
Published
Jun 1, 2025Page count
304 pagesISBN
978-1529233704Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jun 1, 2025Page count
304 pagesISBN
978-1529233711Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
A.R.E. Taylor is Lecturer in Communications at the University of Exeter, UK.
1. Introduction: A New Idyll Myth? - A.R.E. Taylor
2. ‘We Don’t Have Wi-Fi, Talk to Each Other’: Digital Disconnection in the Hospitality Industry - Alexandra Kviat
3. Digital Disconnection and Agency: Ambiguities, Differences and Continuities - Paula Helm
4. Selling the Promise of Presence: How Companies Promote Digital Disconnection and Detox Courses in Denmark - Kristoffer Albris, Malene Hornstrup Jespersen and Annika Isfeldt Disentangling
5. Digital Collapse and Doomsday Prepping - A.R.E. Taylor
6. Digital Representations on the Appalachian Trail: Complicating Experiences of Long-Distance Walking as an Analogue Idyll - Dave McLaughlin
7. Disconnecting Against Intrusion: Ethnographic Reflections from Kinshasa - Katrien Pype
8. Finding Digital Distance: Tactics in the New Digital Divide - Paul O’ Connor
9. Analogue Celebrity - Neil Ewen and A.R.E. Taylor
10. Analogue Labour: The Making of Vinyl Records and Craft Work after Digitization - Michael Palm
11. Fugitive Pathways: Seclusion, Ephemerality and Co-Presence in Higher Education - Lesley Gourlay
