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Some people will explain exactly what they mean: they’ve achieved utter and irrevocable financial precarity by designating an outsized share of their income to concert tickets, overpriced T-shirts, and collectible photo books, or they’ve become incomprehensible to their friends and family because of the degree to which they speak and think in
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Third Places, Stanley Cup Mania, and the Epidemic of Loneliness
youtube.comThe first misappropriates the title of Marivaux’s play, The Game of Love and Chance, “Get love without chance!” And then another says: “Be in love without falling in love!” No raptures, right? Then: “Get perfect love without suffering!” And all thanks to the Meetic dating-site… that offers into the bargain – and the notion takes my breath away –
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Social Media Ruined Romance
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feelings of shared belonging caved in and gave way to instrumental forms of play.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Tina He • [FKPXLS] The New Frontier of Belonging
The world, I realized, is built on passive connection, on the low-effort maintenance of relationships through shared content, mutual voyeurism, and the occasional emoji reaction. Without that, you become a ghost, haunting the edges of people’s lives but never quite materializing.
expertise and entrepreneurial interest in victimhood and exploitation