What's Wrong with Mindfulness?
Fri Feb 06 2026
What’s is wrong with mindfulness? Where does the idea of mindfulness even come from? How can we best use eastern ideas around meditation in our western lives?
R. John Williams is a professor of English and film and media studies at Yale University. He is the author of The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West (2014), and of the forthcoming volume Out of Mind: A Media-Theoretical Critique of Meditation.
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What’s is wrong with mindfulness? Where does the idea of mindfulness even come from? How can we best use eastern ideas around meditation in our western lives? R. John Williams is a professor of English and film and media studies at Yale University. He is the author of The Buddha in the Machine: Art, Technology, and the Meeting of East and West (2014), and of the forthcoming volume Out of Mind: A Media-Theoretical Critique of Meditation.