Narrow bridges
About a bridge in Bucks County
The Primitive Accumulation of Cool
Obligatory identity work is easily mistaken for self-indulgent pleasure
Facebook Piece
Purpose: To enact algorithmically-driven engagement on Facebook to foster a paradoxically participatory subjectivity.
Safe in Our Archives
If the self is an archive, the metadata matters
Affective privacy and surveillance
When experience has become data, privacy can only ever be a feeling
Virality virus
Marketing professor Jonah Berger's book Contagious seeks to loose the social disease of word-of-mouth marketing
Promotional culture on Facebook
On social media you are not just the product but the ad
Google Alert for the Soul
Personal authenticity as "inner truth" is incompatible with the constant self-performance on social media.
Trollope's Ralph the Heir
A novel-length expose of ambition's relation to moral laziness and indifference
Escape from Love Jail
Surveillance as a way out of the couple form
Reputation scores and hedged friendship
Reputation-management companies want us to see friendship as a resource to be invested wisely
Social-media redlining and "social enforcement"
Banks are beginning to determine creditworthiness based on social-media presence
Social discovery vs. sociability
Social relations are most pleasurable when they are pointless
Single Servings
Dating companies hope to replace our search for love with a search for better searching
Desiring Machines
A Valentine for Félix Guattari
Dominate
Who we "really are" is no longer to be regarded as an a priori thing but as a product of using social media