Internet
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Poetry’s Love Affair with the Internet
We already knew that the Internet is a wild and wonderful place for poets, but the web is also empowering verse offline. The New York Times reports on how the Internet is vaulting poetry onto the bestseller list, and we…
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Weekly Geekery
The logic behind the Internet’s inherent creepiness. Understanding “Black Twitter.” The reason we got a taco emoji. Your fears are futile.
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Weekly Geekery
The crazy world of adult content. What poison teaches us about life. Why does hate live online? Medicine and art meet in Stendahl syndrome.
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The Influence of the Internet
The Believer interviews Joshua Cohen, author of Book of Numbers. Cohen is currently working on his newest novel, PCKWCK. He talks to The Believer about preparing for writing and the influence of the Internet on the literary world: First of all,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Lincoln Michel
Lincoln Michel talks about his debut short story collection, Upright Beasts, his interest in monsters, and what sources of culture outside of literature inspire him.
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A Writer’s Love-Hate Relationship with the Internet
Over at Vela Magazine, Sarah Menkedick discusses her complicated relationship with the endless distraction and instant gratification of the Internet as a writer: My default instinct is to skew towards the more challenging option, which demands greater discipline and less…
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Weekly Geekery
Rape deniers of the 18th century. People just don’t get science, even though they love it. Ad blockers and your future Internet. A guide for politicians on Twitter.
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Remembering Your Online Life
After all, a toy boat is hardly its former self after a lifetime at the bottom of the sea. No matter how intact an archive, it can never fully reconstruct the texture and completeness of the original memory. For Aeon,…
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Weekly Geekery
You can run, you can hide, but you can’t escape the Internet. Why do we hate the new Google? Hacking victims and empathy. What do those emails really say about Hilary?
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Why Internet Comments Suck
Wittgenstein explains why discourse on the Internet sucks. And it’s not just because of your crazy uncle. So, language is quicksand—except it’s not. Unlike the parlor tricks of the deconstructionists who bloviate about différance and traces, there clearly are rules that…
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Solve This Mystery
The British Library has a mystery to solve, and wants help in doing so from the Internet, reports C-Net. They have an 800-year-old sword with an indecipherable inscription, and the librarians have posted to the library blog asking for help in figuring out…
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People Talk
In a new history of the evolution of language, Matthew Battles focuses on humans’ relationship with writing. For Slate, John H. McWhorter argues that Battles’s distinction between the written and spoken word misunderstands how we use the Internet: Much of…