Permanent Records
...my feelings change with time. When I look at my middle school students post photos and videos of themselves online, I have the instinctual reaction of adult horror at the...
The Failure Addict
...around the different places online where someone might send some indication that they have noticed me, send some message that tells me I exist — one that says, Everyone thought...
Social Media Is Not Self-Expression
...a "connected world" all around you, and there is no denying that being online metes out "connectedness" in measured, addictive doses. But those doses contain real sociality, and they are...
The Algorithm and the Watchtower
...year: “As you read this online, the United States government makes a note.” And as more recent reporting from the Times and ProPublica has disclosed, this is made possible not...
Games of Truth
...the productive value of our uniquely wrought subjectivity to garner social recognition; we have to build the community (that once was a geographical given) as an online audience and hold...
Coming & Crying
...online via the website Kickstarter, which they then plan to take to an on-demand press. Their goal was $3,000. At present they’ve garnered $4,728 from 114 backers (of which, yes,...
Games of Truth
...have to build the community (that once was geographical) as an online audience and hold it together by performing for it perpetually. The truth test becomes a way to ascertain...
Fear of Screens
...when she discusses a “world of screens,” or when she laments “the pull of the online world” away from the real world of humans. “We turn to our phones instead...
Feasts Under the Bridge
...drawers into the trash — adding an egg and chopped peanuts to their instant ramen!), so too has trolling appeared to go beyond its existence online. "In another image, he...
Social media as masochism
...it intensifies it. Not only would this let us keep obeying the imperative to "express ourselves" and build out our all-important online reputations and networks, but it would allow us...
The Summer of Love and the Holy Fair
...that the concert industry is actually doing better now than it was before the pandemic? A widely-shared German study from 2021 proclaimed that “mass gathering events” like arena shows “contribute...
Anti-5G necklaces
...are engaged in illicit activity. [...] Laundering the cryptocurrency through exchanges is the final step, and also the most vulnerable, because criminals must exit the anonymous online world to appear...
Swiping is dead
...mostly men) from all over the world pay this company to outsource the labor and tedium of online dating. [...] “Profile Writers” create seductive and click-worthy profiles based on facts...
<3
...poses the economization of love as inevitable, along with the end of monogamy. But are people really so helplessly altered by online romance? After all, dating sites still generate actual...
Sunday Reading
...the NSA's sins Massively Open Online Police State Doktorgeschwister A history of liberal anti-unionism The baby in "Salt of the Earth" ended up working at Walmart. "Nuclear power is fine,...
Hungry for Love
...whether exchanging their young sex for the hazy cultural capital of performing at the New Museum was exploitive. Online, conversations flared over the sexually violent undertones of NY NY HP...