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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"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
... See moreViewing 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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The Energetics of Love: How I Went from Dysfunctional to a Secure Relational Dynamic
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A People's Guide to AI, 2nd Edition
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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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