Van Newman
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techno-critical writer / dystopian studies hobbyist / idea guy
Van Newman
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“He was a generational talent who wrote something that has lasted till this day. And yet he spends all his time worrying about running out of logs for the fire or switching rooms to avoid his creditors.”
- How artists make (or beg for) money
The Energetics of Love: How I Went from Dysfunctional to a Secure Relational Dynamic
Sarah Faith Gottesdienermoonstudio.substack.com
Playground - Richard Powers
richardpowers.net
“To be truly countercultural in a time of tech hegemony, one has to, above all, betray the platform which may come in the form of betraying or divesting from your public online self.”
Caroline Busta • The Internet Didn’t Kill Counterculture—you Just Won’t Find It on Instagram
Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender,
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The Internet lacks closure, not in some cloying therapeutic sense, but literally. At every moment a website can be surfed, linked, crawled, or refreshed by any one (or several million) of billions of browsers. The net isn't "read" like a book, "watched" like a movie, nor "attended" like the theater -- it is "browsed." The word itself suggests a... See more
