Sublime

It spoke of something deep in human beings, how hard she had to pinch herself when she started thinking of it all as a metaphor.

world that Facebook is shaping. Facebook, using our native narcissism and

If you can’t escape the market, why stop working on its terms?

Now I’m thirty, and most of my life is inextricable from the internet, and its mazes of incessant forced connection—this feverish, electric, unlivable hell.

More than any other entity, Facebook has solidified the idea that selfhood exists in the shape of a well-performing public avatar.

It’s very easy, under conditions of artificial but continually escalating obligation, to find yourself organizing your life around practices you find ridiculous and possibly indefensible. Women have known this intimately for a long time.

Jenny Offill’s brilliant Dept. of Speculation

She wondered, sometimes, if the whole country had fallen into a Jerry Springer episode.