Van Newman
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techno-critical writer / dystopian studies hobbyist / idea guy
Van Newman
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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
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Playground - Richard Powers
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Which browsers are best for privacy?
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Once Out of Nature: Selected Essays on the Transformation of Gender,
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Entitlement: A Novel: Alam, Rumaan: 9780593718469: Amazon.com ...
amazon.com“— you know, I've either had a family, a job, something
has always been in the
way
but now
I've sold my house, I've found this
place, a large studio, you should see the space and
the light.
for the first time in my life I'm going to have a place and
the time to
create.'
no baby, if you're going to create
you're going to create whether you work
16 hours a day
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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In The Metaverse, Sexual Assault Is Very Real
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