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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Firewalls Don't Stop Dragons - Security and Privacy Blog for Non-Techies
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Entitlement: A Novel: Alam, Rumaan: 9780593718469: Amazon.com ...
amazon.comWe are reaching an inflection point when it comes to how “inward” we continue to turn in every facet of our lives. We are all becoming increasingly more lonely, afraid of conflict, afraid of silence, vulnerability, commitment, communication – the list goes on. Of course, social media and the ease of information is to blame. I don’t ask a neighbor
... See more"The explosion of the personality into multiple internet selves has opened up many people, including myself, to a lot of heartache. Self-dissipation becomes self-dissatisfaction. I spent years scattering myself into personality fragments on many different websites until I couldn't locate my whole self anywhere. These personality fragments became
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Too often, aspiring artists put pressure on themselves to make their creative work their only source of income. In my experience, it’s a road to misery. If art is your sole source of income, then there’s unrelenting pressure on that art, and mercenary pressure is the enemy of the creative elves inside you trying to get the work done. Having another
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
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
Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender,
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