There Are No Accidents
If the structure of the Internet is conspiracy theory, shouldn't net art follow suit?
True Sailing Is Dead
When the still sea conspires an armor.
The Viral Self
Ultimately, the only viral content is the self
Ego depleted
Social media drain the self by pressing on us an endless series of decisions about whether to interact
Games of Truth
Foucault's late lectures shed light on how social media serves as a realm for staging wars of authenticity
The taste of circulation
A series of tweets about self-consciousness about sharing
Hollow Inside
Social media negate the idea of interiority, the sanctity of opaque motives
Reparative compulsions
How the intermittent rewards of social media blissfully annihilate the self
Experiments in inertia
When the importance of content is trumped by circulation, the interesting collapses into its opposite
Social media and sensibility
Vicarious consumption of feeling as a democratic badge of distinction, a core competency for modern life
Creative Tyranny
Artists’ self-important claims for their work makes them worse than useless for political activism
“Organic stories”
By filtering what you see, Facebook's News Feed algorithm serves Facebook, not you
En passant
Some notes on Andrew Bujalski's Computer Chess
Contained selves
Social media as democratized dandyism and self-experimentation
Get real
What in Jennifer Egan's novel Look at Me read as narcissism in 2001 now seems like routine self-care
Mind Games Forever
Eric Berne’s Games People Play offers a blueprint for making passive-aggressive manipulation into compulsive fun