Voluntary Twitter Extinction Society

Social media is both an expression of the crisis of the social that pre-exists the internet and a potent accelerator of that crisis. Solving this does not mean fixing online. It means changing, IRL, the society that makes life empty and atomized in the fi

“The internet… is the mediation that abolishes all other mediations.”
– Marcel Gauchet

Can social media change the world? Twenty odd years ago digital theorists wondered whether the internet’s new global connectivity, conceived in the bosoms of the American security state, could remake and even recreate society. Today, the children of the online retain li…