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Jenny Offill’s brilliant Dept. of Speculation
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
centrally concerned with sex and the ways it supports or disorganizes coupled and communal intimacies.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
Virality is compartmentalization, turning the complexities of life into decontextualized snapshots.
Lindy West • The Witches Are Coming
perhaps the internet was “basically alienating and unfulfilling.
Gretchen McCulloch • Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
After two years of constant gigging with no manager, no booking agent, and a growing pile of rejection letters from every indie label on the planet
Amanda Palmer • The Art of Asking: How I learned to stop worrying and let people help
these platforms also bear the responsibility of helping creators grow their reputations and capture the value of their efforts.
Nadia Eghbal • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
Both through her fiction and in her diaries Butler demonstrated that no one was a nobody. To be a person in whatever place or time had value. Self-doubting, self-made, self-helped, the city-state’s prophet suffered and thrived on things found in the world and mind. Both gave her pain. Both gave her art. So be it. See to it. She found a way.