24/7
AVAILABLE
Even when you have nothing left to give.
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SL / ARCHIVE 001 / TRANSMISSION FAILED
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SIGNALLOST
A CULTURAL ARCHIVE
OF MODERN SYMPTOMS.
They promised connection.
We got consumed.
OBSERVATION / 001
YOU ARE NOT
CONNECTED.
YOU ARE
CONSUMED.
You check your phone before you check yourself.
RAW DATA / YOU CALL THIS NORMAL?
SCROLL.
REFRESH.
REPEAT.
∞
CONTENT
Enough to consume your life. Never enough to satisfy you.
03:47
STILL AWAKE
The body stopped hours ago. Your thumb did not.
0
PEACE FOUND
Refresh again. Maybe the next notification will fix it.
LIVE ESTIMATE / CURRENT SYSTEM LOAD
THIS SECOND.
The counter is moving.
So are you.
+0
HUMAN YEARS SPENT CONSUMING SOCIAL CONTENT
SINCE YOU OPENED THIS PAGE.
+0
NEW SOCIAL MEDIA IDENTITIES
SINCE YOU ARRIVED.
0.0
ESTIMATED DEATHS LINKED TO LONELINESS
SINCE YOU ARRIVED.
5.79B
SOCIAL MEDIA USER IDENTITIES.
18H 36M
AVERAGE SOCIAL MEDIA USE / WEEK.
21%
OF ADOLESCENTS REPORT LONELINESS.
100 / H
DEATHS LINKED TO LONELINESS.
PUBLISHED RATES. LIVE ESTIMATES. NOT A REAL-TIME SENSOR.
SYSTEM CONDITION / 002
EVERYTHING AVAILABLE.
NEVER ENOUGH.
VOLUME 01 / DOCUMENTED EVIDENCE
SYMPTOMS
Not products.
Evidence.
SYMPTOM / 01DOCUMENTED
SOLITUDE
A packed train. A hundred screens. Nobody is really there.
OPEN DOSSIER / 01→SYMPTOM / 02DOCUMENTED
INSOMNIA
The body is exhausted. The mind keeps refreshing.
OPEN DOSSIER / 02→SYMPTOM / 03DOCUMENTED
OVERLOAD
More information than any generation before us. Less clarity.
OPEN DOSSIER / 03→SYMPTOM / 04DOCUMENTED
SURVEILLANCE
Always visible. Always measured. Never understood.
OPEN DOSSIER / 04→SYMPTOM / 05DOCUMENTED
LOST FOCUS
Everything asks for your attention. Nothing gives it back.
OPEN DOSSIER / 05→SYMPTOM / 06DOCUMENTED
DISCONNECTED
Always reachable. Never present.
OPEN DOSSIER / 06→MANIFESTO / SIGNAL LOST
FILE / SL-MF-04RECOVERED DOCUMENT / PARTIAL DECRYPTION
DAMAGE
RECORD.
YOU WAKE UP TIRED.
BEFORE YOU FEEL YOUR BODY, YOU REACH FOR A SCREEN.
YOU KNOW STRANGERS.
YOU DO NOT KNOW HOW THE PERSON NEXT TO YOU IS DOING.
FED EVERYTHING.
NOTHING STAYS WITH YOU LONG ENOUGH TO MATTER.
ALWAYS REACHABLE.
NEVER BEEN HARDER TO REACH.