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Computer Love
But it’s safe to say, now that we’re more than thirty years into the great internet experiment, that our devices didn’t bring us closer together. They drove us further apart, deeper and deeper into our algorithmic hell holes. The proliferation of devices surrounding us at all times may help us “get in touch” with other people, sure, but they impede... See more
Catherine Shannon • Your phone is why you don't feel sexy
“For adults as well as children, computers... offer companionship without the mutuality and complexity of a human relationship. They seduce because they provide a chance to be in complete control, but they can trap people into an infatuation with control, with building one’s own private world.”
The Post-Individual
look to the virtual for other kinds of redemption—
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
In her book Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less From Each Other, psychologist and sociologist Dr. Sherry Turkle argues digital connections provide the illusion of companionship, and that we confuse ‘posts’ and ‘shares’ with authentic communication.