Van Newman
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techno-critical writer / dystopian studies hobbyist / idea guy
Van Newman
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American Rapture
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Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
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Friday Black — Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
nanakwameadjei-brenyah.comYoung influencers are being offered cheap procedures in return for promotion. They say it’s coming at a cost.
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I’m reminded of the words of sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” Of course, it was also noted by philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Such a statement displays the narrative
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Y2K – HarperCollins
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Viewing technology in the longue durée foregrounds how slavery undergirds conditions of contemporary extraction, surveillance, and the insistence on positing knowledge as outside of those arrangements—practices that produce today’s technologies. Contributors to this issue of Logic(s), “Out of Place,” challenge the logic that racism is contaminating... See more
Out of Place: Issue 22 | Logic(s) Magazine
In The Metaverse, Sexual Assault Is Very Real
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