Tara McMullin

@taramcmullin

Writer, podcaster, and producer baffled by the absurdity of neoliberal capitalism. Autistic feminist. Aspiring independent scholar. Amateur baker. Host of the What Works podcast and author of a book of the same name.

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‘Fandom Has Toxified the World’: Watchmen Author Alan Moore on Superheroes, Comicsgate and Trump

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Media & Culture and Fandom & Capitalism

The aspect ratio of our lives has changed. By narrowing our field of view, cutting off our peripheral vision, the phone doesn’t just remove us from space and provoke a sense of claustrophobia. It isolates us.

Nicholas Carr • Out of the Landscape, into the Portrait

Media & Culture and The Creator Economy

“Toward a phenomenology of the phone”

The hacker class experiences extremes of a winner-take-all outcome of its efforts. On the one hand, fantastic careers and the spoils of some simulation of the old bourgeois lifestyle; on the other hand, precarious and part-time work, start-ups that go bust, and the making routine of our jobs by new algorithms—designed by others of our very own

The Creator Economy and Labor Under Capitalism

During it, we learn to adopt a story about ourselves—what our value is, what beauty is, what is harmful and what is normal—and to privilege the feelings, comfort, perceptions, and power of others over our own.

Melissa Febos • Girlhood

The Mythical Norm

I know what kind of work it takes to complete a book manuscript, and I want to do that work, but to arrive at the end of it and learn that what I should have been doing instead is flooding the zone on Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok? That is fundamentally demoralizing.

Collin Brooke • Unfluence

Media & Culture and

The coping strategies that you adopt will determine how well you handle the stressor.

According to Lazarus and Folkman, there are two aspects to managing a stressful situation:

Problem-based coping: the practical steps that you take to manage the problem.

Emotion-based coping: how you manage your emotions when you become stressed.

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Emotions @ Work

I tell my students to liberate a certain part of their mind that, because they are good, humble people they may have likely suppressed, and that's the part that wants to be known, that wants to be famous or rich or whatever. I say that part is not entirely separate from the part of you that wants to be a great writer. Which is not separate from the... See more

Jane Ratcliffe • Craft Advice from George Saunders

the art of writing

This is what an unmoderated internet looks like

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Pinery: Self-Publishing App.

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