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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...them has been published online yet. It's 130+ pages of original, unseen critical work on drones, illustrated and designed by Imp Kerr. As far as we can tell, it's the...
No Life Stories
...to assess people. Thanks to the services’ ongoing proliferation, it has become increasingly inconvenient to take part in any social activity—from making a purchase to conversing with friends online to...
Mediums of Exchange
...to develop the capacity, the capital-ability, of the spiritualized self. When the work of self-mining is translated into a viable online identity, we see how easily the lines between spiritual...
Triple-Decker Weekly, 119
...group to which the original transgressor and the displaced target belong is highly entitative. Two experimental online studies show that displaced revenge leads to less regret or more satisfaction when...
Triple-Decker Weekly
...in personal problems, no? [Slavoj Žižek] A couple of online articles have discussed whether you would be conscious of being shot in the head with the general conclusion that it...
How to Destroy a Community
...Mittani, he is the former spymaster and current CEO of the Goonswarm Federation, one of the largest player alliances in the hypercapitalist space opera Eve Online. Eve Online is a...
The Acquisitive Gaze
...shopping mentality govern everything we do online. 8. Consumerism once limited this sort of self-expression to what one can afford. But with Pinterest, users can simulate the acquisition of things...