REFRESH FEED, BITE NAILS
The Nervous Tic Of 'Paying Attention'
A Google Alert on my name has helped me wring the compulsion to "stay informed."
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IN YOUR DREAMS
Tech Companies Want To Eat Your Dreams
Corporate metrics want to extract productivity from everything — even your dreams.
FLOSS DANCING FOR CAPITALISM
The Oppressive Power Of 'Fortnite' Emotes
Video games are not an escape from the class structure but reproduce it.
INFINITE CHOICE, FINITE CONSEQUENCES
The Content Library Killed The Book Cover
What is lost when we "watch Netflix" rather than shows and "listen to Spotify" rather than songs?
MISGUIDED MYSTIQUE IN CENSORSHIP
See No Evil
Google's decision to blur out places where crimes were perpetrated only increases their horrific fascination.
NEURAL NET PROFIT
Autocomplete Yourself
Why pretend that machines can be creative?
IN REAL TIME
Faked Out
Why are we so ready to believe that truth is over?
PRESERVED IN PIXELS
A Haunted Village On Google Street View
Epileptics were once forcibly institutionalized by eugenicist extinction programs. But the traces of this history are being wiped off the map.
THE PUBLIC'S WANING INTEREST IN PRIVACY
Personal Panopticons
A key product of ubiquitous surveillance is people who are comfortable with it.
LOSS-LESS
The Last File Format
Streaming capitalizes on the utopian hopes attached to the mp3.
WHAT ARE WE GRINDING FOR?
Video Games Are Playing The Working Class
Video games reproduce the worker's capacity to continue working.
HEMLOCK IS A POISON, IRONY IS NOT
Irony Poisoning Is Not The Problem
Irony is not a gateway drug or alibi for racism.
THE NOSTALGIA MACHINE
YouTube Reactivated My Kid Brain
How toy commercials taught me the value of deep, aimless attention.
MANICURED LIVES IN THE GREAT WILDERNESS
The Last Frontier
Reality shows set in Alaska offer a fiction of self-sufficiency at the brink of societal collapse.
THIS WEBSITE INCLUDED
Creativity Is Capitalism
Creativity has become one of capitalism's biggest growth sectors and best alibis.
THE INTERNET'S SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY
The Great Mortality
The plagues we pretend to want are coming for us anyway.
PRIME NUMBERS
The Constant Consumer
Amazon's mission is to make customer identity more primary than citizenship.
ON A HIGHWAY TO HELL
Take The Wheel
Car culture has become a trap but autonomous vehicles are not the escape.
DIGITIZING A NEW MARKETPLACE
Two Faced: The Culture Of Platform Capitalism
Online platforms aren't simply replacing stores by replicating their function. Instead they are making themselves gatekeepers capable of controlling and regulating commerce.
GODS FROM THE MACHINE
Just Randomness
Our hopes of deliverance from bias are transferred onto algorithmic decision-making systems, which have been broadly implemented across contemporary societies, ostensibly in hopes of making employment, financial, legal and other decisions fairer.
