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Without World - The White Review
Dashiel Hammett’s The Glass Key poses different dilemmas when read as literature or as a popular detective story.
Henry Jenkins • Textual Poachers: Television Fans and Participatory Culture
Chris Anderson published his hit book The Long Tail, arguing that the breadth of the Internet made it possible for niche businesses, products, and content to thrive. Popularity was a curve rising exponentially toward the left side of a graph; Anderson predicted that the long, flat part of the curve, with diverse but relatively unpopular things, wou
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THE SCI-FI GURU WHO PREDICTED GOOGLE EARTH EXPLAINS SILICON VALLEY’S LATEST OBSESSION
Joanna Robinsonvanityfair.com“…the stammerings of an old man who does not seem to have achieved a full psychic victory over an awkward adolescence…”
Eugene Thacker • Infinite Resignation
But beneath the layers of hi-tech delirium and political intrigue lies a fairly simple idea: that human identity is a function of memory, and so in theory indistinguishable from a digital hard drive.
The transfer of the self’s setting from bodies to communication systems
Nicholas Carr • Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart
What Can Synecdoche New York Tell Us About Our Current Political Moment (that The Matrix Cannot?)
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