machine zone
nounEtymology Coined by cultural anthropologist Natasha Dow Schüll.
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Usually A trance-like state of immersion reached through intense interaction with gambling machines.
- Echoing Mollie’s wish to stay in the machine zone, they spoke of gamblers’ desire for “time-on-device,” or TOD.2012, Natasha Dow Schüll, Addiction by Design, page 3:
- How does technology hold us close, so close that we turn to it instead of turning within? It keeps us in a “machine zone.”2015, Sherry Turkle, Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Penguin, →ISBN:
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- As one addict explains, she is not playing to win but to ‘stay in that machine zone where nothing else matters.’2020, Richard Seymour, The Twittering Machine, Verso Books, →ISBN, page 64: