Van Newman
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techno-critical writer / dystopian studies hobbyist / idea guy
Van Newman
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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 moreThe problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.
Sari Azout • What Does Slow AI Look Like?
Daily Rituals: How Artists Work
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Terms of Service; Didn't Read
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The whole time I was practicing to be a writer, I always had a day job. Even after I got published, I didn’t quit my day job, just to be on the safe side. In fact, I didn’t quit my day job (or my day jobs, I should say) until I had already written three books—and those three books were all published by major houses and were all reviewed nicely in
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
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