Trollope's The Vicar of Bullhampton
Love is supposed to sugar the pill of patriarchy for women, but at the same time Trollope wants it to serve as authenticity's reference point.
Facebook as experiment
The claim that Facebook is a big social experiment shouldn't distract us from who is wearing the lab coats and who are the rats
We Were Promised Hot Tubs
Bob Welch and the glories of the lost ideal of 1970s adulthood
Agents Without Agency
The spylike pursuit of information rather than knowledge makes us function less as thinkers than processors, personal computers — and inefficient, low-powered ones at that. We are not the subjects who know things or intentionally produce knowledge; we are instead means of circulation — objects through which information passes with more or less noise in
Future legends
Technology doesn't improve productivity so much as intensify ideology
Gut of the Quantifier
"Pics or it didn't happen" is a slogan for the end of sociality
Information inundation and social deskilling
The pace of social media makes consuming information a test of stamina, rendering comprehension irrelevant
Lonely and crying
The Bee Gees' art of inconsolable sadness
Dummy Discards a Heart
Mediated game playing saps games of their sociality
Facebook and living labor
Yet another way to theorize social media as capitalist expansion
Outgrowing oneself
One of the saddest parts of aging is realizing the cultural distinctions on which I once predicated my sense of self have become socially meaningless
Presumed conspicuous
Social media make conspicuous consumption worse
Thinking bad
Mark Dery's I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts captures the tone of pre-Internet ranting
Notes on "Notes on Hype"
Hype is as much a model for personal conduct as it is promotion for a particular good
Heroic tedium and anti-nostalgia
This album doesn't suck
Facebook in the Age of Facebook
How social media help naturalize network-driven capitalism and the sort of flexible, endlessly productive subject it requires