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...
Coming of Age in Modern Dystopia
...social life unfolding online. Relationships change and feelings for others are molded by what is seen on social media feeds. One misinterpreted Instagram pic or tweet can end a relationship....
So You Want to Be a #Longreads Superstar
...media, has an erotic element. Like anyone who commands attention, a writer controls and manipulates bodies, but as this new form of online writing — so far defined more by...
The Honeyed Siphon
...infection and beyond. Online diabetes forums are particularly striking spaces to witness this. I am writing a longer study of these and other medical forums. What appears here is a...
Coming & Crying
...of the online literary magazine The Rumpus.) A pledge of $15 or more guarantees the backer a hard copy, so essentially you’re buying the book in advance on the promise...
The Failure Addict
...that line when I find myself online reading something on a social-media site that seems awkwardly personal. I think of it too when I am checking the page views of...
Security Culture Is Good
...it’s a cliché because it’s the best advice for people looking to easily protect themselves online. But neither of these tools is foolproof, meaning they won’t necessarily stop the cops...
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...
Turn Down for What?
...she can go online and lease it to her neighbors. It’s the same thing neighbors have always done, but rationalized and better suited for a population that’s used to relations...
Long Live Said
...the American establishment was made to pay a price professionally and personally. And those of us who had the temerity to teach about Palestine or put Edward Said on our...
The Dandelion and the Lucky Peach
...of influences falls to food bloggers nowadays, and the fact that the online dialogue doesn’t require purchasing $20 appetizers has broadened the audience of high-minded dining in an odd and,...
Best in Show
...shows will put on their best cowboy boots), but comfortably enough to run, jump, chase, and otherwise wrangle potentially unpredictable creatures. You don’t dress to complement yourself; you’re dressing to...
Why We Love Sociopaths
...the powerful and prestigious job, with more sexual opportunities than I know what to do with. In short order, it even comes to seem that only such people can get...
American Snipper
...by the American Snipper movie and impressed by the respect in the theater. Proud to be a American. Best wishes to his family. American Snipper really moved me. A man...
Glass Hands (Violent Motion, 2)
...commodity markets. All online everything. Harun Farocki, Eye/Machine II, 2002 Still, it seems right to assert that almost no other machine – not the phone itself but the set of...
Escape From Minus World
...money in the form of a new credit-card account. There was $50 toward a Buy.com purchase, and $25 off from Amazon, each of which seduced me into stupid purchases that...