The Hangover and Life as a Commodity We have a common and stark expression of what it might feel like to be a commodity, and to have our past dominate our present: a really, really bad hangover.
Using Our rationalizations for using social media are much more sophisticated than those for using drugs.
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 first place.
The Internet is Made of Demons <em>The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is</em> is not what you think it is.
Making the Dull Compulsions Sexy Again <em>The Class Matrix</em> is essential reading. It’s too bad it’s wasted on academics.
Dry Capitalism The new culture of sobriety is deeply complementary to the joyless, achievement-oriented, toxic positivity of the neoliberal age.