What’s the Matter With the Modern World: Jonathan Franzen
...tech industries that some adjacent word such as “hip” is needed to describe those online voices who proceeded to hate on Long and deem Hodgman to be the cool one....
Love Worth Fighting For
...of any particular other person. One is simply emotionally competent, in the abstract. Thus online dating preconceives any potential intimacy as generic. But in reality, intimacy reveals itself in unpredictable...
On Ableism and Animals
An excerpt from Beasts of Burden, which was published by The New Press in February 2017
The Science and Spectacle of the Swarm
How a bee got marked a killer in the crisscrossing narratives of species and the social
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...sell Bitcoins using global currencies through such online exchanges as Mt. Gox. There’s even a service facilitated by BitInstant, a payment-processing company, that allows you to purchase the virtual currency...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 57
...is encourage my company to use social media. I’d create policies around it, pushing my company to go online on Facebook and Twitter and stuff, and to have “authentic conversations”...
Triple-Decker Weekly
...Verizon Doesn’t Want You to Buy an iPhone. How awesome is this treasure trove of emails, documents, files placed online by the NY Fed? Some of the emails between Lehman...
children are our future: resistance, addiction and the digital natives
...ignoring each other as they engage with their iPhones; the compulsive sharers on social networks who leave no private experience unmediated and recapitulated online; our own restless oscillation between email...
Massively Open Online Police State
...kind of war without end world destabilization that today’s patriotic consumers demand. We have to do better. Massive online surveillance is not new. As techno-utopian Evgeny Morozov has demonstrated, governments...
Athletic Aesthetics
...Parker Ito, America Online Made Me Hardcore, 2013 A new species of hyperproductive artist flooding the Internet with content invites audiences to complete their work by loving their...
Digital Dark Spaces
...no longer exists. But there is perhaps too strict a delineation in Fox’s descriptions of the online world (cyberspace) and IRL (meatspace), not least when it comes to risk. The...
The IRL Fetish
...coined the term “digital dualism” to describe: the habit of viewing the online and offline as largely distinct. The common (mis)understanding is experience is zero-sum: time spent online means less...
The Fog of More
...the display of lots of information online has itself come to symbolize transparent, healthy democracy. But when a state disgorges useless and disorganized information, it swamps our capacity to make...
Coming of Age in Modern Dystopia
...narratives surrounding queer and indigenous identity while seeking comfort in the many distractions the online world provides. There is a delicate balance between the two: the former making the latter...
The Scapegoating Machine
...that drive online abuse and scapegoating are also what give users a feeling of community on social media, its operators will be hard-pressed to rein them in, even if they...
Model Behavior
...just how this goes: You dress for the office, you mold your online and offline persona to reflect well on the company, and even out of office hours, your “performance”...