Maintenant festival

“Today, time is captured and monetized by online platforms. To win over our time, our attention, online platforms turn us into obedient doom-scrollers. Our anxieties are amplified, polarization is worsened, differences are sharpened, anger is stoked. When we’re not working, we are expected to consume and share media, to promote ourselves, or spread a cause – often both. Time is the key currency in this logic. Time is money, as they say.”

Meeting with Maya Shenfeld, a composer and musician born in Jerusalem and living in Berlin. In this podcast she reflects on time, attention and resistance in our society.