Tag: Cyberpunk
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Pacts With Demons.
After a year and a half, give or take, it’s finally here. A year and one day ago I published “Is the internet dead? Are we?” as one of the first real posts on this blog. In the year or so of intervening time I’ve been refining and reworking that idea into a real argument,…
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Intestinal Catastrophism
When the drugs that made you sick are the drugs that make you better You, or someone you know probably has problems with their digestive tract. Not to get too personal about it (we’re friends, right?), but pretty much everyone these days either has GERD, IBS, bloating or some other combination of symptoms that is…
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Is the internet dead? Are we?
So you can stop asking me what my thesis is about The overwhelming impression that you get when speaking to people about their experience of using the internet is as an almost malign, parasitic force in their lives. When talking to my students about whether or not the internet was making us stupider, or more…