"the frictionless quality of online life is sometimes experienced as the lack of resistance (click a button and its there!) and sometimes it is experienced as the inability to gain purchase. the inability to affect anything at all."
Ambient sounds to study/relax/chill to.
I find this quite interesting that studying as a labour intensive task to maximise labour productivity is put in the same box as chill and relax, something much harder to do in our hyper-speedy society. It reminds me about what I was saying to an Italian friend of mine. noone smokes weed to chill, it is just smoked to get into a vegetated state. that's the appeal of xanax mindset I think, it's a regression from the most subversive aspects of skunk. the autistic closing up and the inability to socialise is turned into an over excited infant anti-social sociality. whereas skunk is not panic but your mind playing tricks on you and semi-gnostic schizophrenia. that is it more than paranoia per se.