The Rumpus Interview with Andrew Ervin
Andrew Ervin discusses his debut novel, Burning Down George Orwell’s House, social media and writing, and how video games can serve as a way to understand the post-human world.
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Posts Tagged: distraction
Weekly Geekery
Forcing logic on the world. You are probably distracted right now. One of us. One of us. One of us. The dark side of the Internet. Margaret Atwood on the future. Stop calling them robots. The machines that write your news.
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The future of the Internet should scare you. Death isn’t an end on Facebook. Really awesome revolution of information. Teeny tiny profit margin. Don’t click away! Don’t check Twitter. This is all very important.
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This n+1 piece tracks the history of conversation, in different mediums. The vastly diverging worlds of talking vs. conversation vs. chatting online have all experienced their own evolution. Even just focusing on chat itself reveals a trajectory perpetually informed by the ways in which we chat online. From AOL chat rooms to Gmail, factors like […]
...moreTime for a Digital Diet?
Anybody feeling the “encroachment of the buzz,” the multitudinous distractions that prevent us from concentrating on a book? Johann Hari is offering survival tips for these distracting times. “A book has a different relationship to time than a TV show or a Facebook update. It says that something was worth taking from the endless torrent […]
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