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David Foster Wallace Tried to Warn Us About these Eight Things
honest-broker.comThis dialectic is muddy from the get-go, of course. It’s a version of the more familiar hipster trap: over time, the marginal labor of the bohemian experimentalist and taste-maker is swallowed up by the smug cartoon of the in-the-know consumer clone. But the near inevitability of this process also suggests that the first hipster was already part of... See more
Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
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youtube.comThe Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age
Sven Birkerts • 9 highlights
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Kyle Chaykakylechayka.substack.comInfinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
Steven Kotler • Last Tango in Cyberspace: A Novel
Appearing during the early Reagan-Thatcher years, Blade Runner is an outline of a reconfigured relationship to an emerging global consumer culture that would be more securely in place by the 1990s. Rather than tracking any kind of split between the self and this milieu, the film affirms a functional assimilation of the individual into the circuitry
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