The Isolation of Millennial Life: Ancco’s Nineteen
Nineteen is a book that’s by turns smart, sad, and scathing.
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Posts Tagged: smartphones
My Grandmother Glitches the Machine
It’s true that when I speak of machines I also mean dimensions.
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The Lenses We Can’t See: A Conversation with Howard Axelrod
Howard Axelrod discusses his new book, THE STARS IN OUR POCKETS.
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #208: Stephen Van Dyck
“This reality is so much dustier, smellier, and bitterer than it seems through a screen.”
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Over at the New York Review of Books, Edward Mendelson writes apocalyptically about the way our lives are changing for the worse with the advent of the Internet, smartphones, and “the cloud,” infecting every facet of our increasingly public lives. So, go outside, or something?
...moreWeekly Geekery
Space sex! The science of being twitterpated. iPads can’t fix everything. The religion of technology. Need to police the police? There’s an app for that.
...moreThe Web Isn’t Nirvana (But You Can Get All Their Albums For Free)
On February 26, 1995, just about twenty years ago, Newsweek published an article by Clifford Stoll called “Why the Internet Won’t Be Nirvana.” In it, Stoll provides a litany of faults to be found in the nascent web. Although there’s a decidedly un-zen tone to the article, Stoll makes some surprisingly accurate predictions—right alongside some laughable ones. […]
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The Rumpus Interview with David Bezmozgis
The Rumpus talks to David Bezmozgis about Israel, making fact into fiction, politics in novels, and his new book, The Betrayers.
...moreVogon Poetry
I dare say I’m not the only iPhone owner who’s also a fan of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy–the book, not the film. Smartphones in general seem to be turning into the technology Douglas Adams envisioned all those years ago, and while they may not (yet) provide you with an introduction to Eccentrica Gallumbits […]
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