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Bookmark Patricia Lockwood on Her Novel, No One Is Talking About This
No One Is Talking About This is out February 16. The internet deprogrammed Patricia Lockwood. It didn’t happen all at once.

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark What Does It Mean To Buy a Gif? | Jack Rusher
It’s everywhere on the Internet right now—NFT this, Rarible that. Tokens, tokens, come get your tokens! We’ve got people shouting that the whole idea is an absurdity or an abomination, others…

March 31 2021, 7:55am | Comments
Bookmark The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram
Search Google Images for ‘counterculture’ and it overwhelmingly returns black-and-white photos of young people all now over 60.

January 19 2021, 11:55pm | Comments
Bookmark Otherkin Are the Internet’s Punchline. They’re Also Our Future
Rhia is queer, trans, and nonbinary. They are also otherkin, or an individual who identifies as nonhuman on a non-physical level, according to the Otherkin Wiki.

December 23 2020, 1:19am | Comments
Bookmark How Memes, Lulz, and "Ironic" Bigotry Won the Internet - The Atlantic
In the 2010s, Hitler memes and “ironic” racism filled the internet. What if we had taken them seriously? Updated at 4:00 a.m. ET on Oct. 4, 2020.

October 10 2020, 12:13am | Comments
Instagram Not ok, internet. Not ok.

July 26 2020, 12:41pm | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 26 2020, 2:13am | Comments
Bookmark Cancel Culture and the Problem of Woke Capitalism - The Atlantic
Beware splashy corporate gestures when they leave existing power structures intact. Tumbrels are rattling through the streets of the internet. Over the past few years, online-led social movements have deposed gropers,…

July 25 2020, 10:13pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache MA Internet Equalities Reading List - Creative Computing Institute -…
We are very excited about our new MA Internet Equalities Course, which will explore how power relations are organized, embedded and perpetuated in internet technologies, and how they can be re-organized or challenged through critical, creative and activist…

June 23 2020, 8:59am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Announcing a National Emergency Library to Provide Digitized Books to…
To address our unprecedented global and immediate need for access to reading and research materials, as of today, March 24, 2020, the Internet Archive will suspend waitlists for the 1.

March 26 2020, 5:21am | Comments
Bookmark The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019
Afew years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to…

January 6 2020, 7:34pm | Comments
Instagram Close-up of the most #PostInternet section of the #ImageNet dataset

October 18 2019, 6:29am | Comments
Bookmark The Wandering Earth: A Reflection of the Chinese New Right | Chuang
In recent years, right-wing discourse has become more and more common on the Chinese internet, particularly among young people.

September 26 2019, 5:36pm | Comments
Metafilter MeFi: 434 Fridays Later ... Rebecca Black was, at age 13, the singer of Friday, the most popular (and most-mocked) video on YouTube in 2011 (Katy Perry, concerned about the internet bullying, invited Black to star in her video Last Friday Night). Today she is 22 and talks…

July 7 2019, 8:54pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache Readings in AI Ethics - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics
Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

June 19 2019, 6:53pm | Comments
Bookmark A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum - The Awl
This is a bucket of chum. Chum is decomposing fish matter that elicits a purely neurological brain stem response in its target consumer: larger fish, like sharks.

May 27 2019, 5:28pm | Comments
Bookmark How the JPEG Changed Everything | Frieze
‘Every two minutes, people upload more images to the internet than existed in total just 150 years ago’

February 7 2019, 5:00am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Digital Bibliography
AN EVALUATIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY: DIGITAL CULTURE, INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, THE INTERNET, THE WEB By David Abrahamson Northwestern University Prefatory Note: What follows is a discursive compilation of more that four-hundred-and-fifty items, most of fairly recent authorship, united by a common…

January 29 2019, 10:38am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Internet of Evil Draft Syllabus - Google Docs
HDCC 106: Internet of Evil Dr. Daniel Greene College of Information Studies Hornbake South, Room 4105D dgreene1@umd.edu Schedule office hours via https://calbird.com/daniel-greene/students Trevor Paglen’s Vampire (Corpus: Monsters of Capitalism), “Adversarially Evolved Halluc...

December 28 2018, 9:09am | Comments
Bookmark You thought fake news was bad? Deep fakes are where truth goes…
In May, a video appeared on the internet of Donald Trump offering advice to the people of Belgium on the issue of climate change. “As you know, I had the balls…

November 18 2018, 8:48am | Comments
Syllabus Cache AI & Culture: Buildings, Cities (and Infrastructures, and Beyond…)
We’ve long heard a lot about smart: smart homes, smart cities, smart grids, and more. It’s blowing up even more, with a lot of talk about AI these days. It’s all over pop culture, whether in tv, film,…

October 21 2018, 10:09am | Comments
Bookmark ‘Tsunami of data’ could consume one fifth of global electricity by 2025…
The communications industry could use 20% of all the world’s electricity by 2025, hampering attempts to meet climate change targets and straining grids as demand by power-hungry server farms storing digital…

October 9 2018, 9:50am | Comments
Bookmark You're wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories
Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy…

July 7 2018, 8:32am | Comments
Podcast Cache Podcast 13: Imaginary Futures, Media Theory and the Cold War Origins of…
Ideas and Culture with Guts http://www.explodingappendix.com/2018/04/17/podcast-13-imaginary-futures-media-theory-cold-war-origins-internet-interview-richard-barbrook/

April 17 2018, 2:55am | Comments
Bookmark The Future Of GIFs As Gallery Art, According To The Current Sea
An episode of The Simpsons called “The Computer Wore Menace Shoes” sums up the turn-of-the-century internet quite well. Homer builds a website, dubbed “Mr. X's Web Page” and populates it with…

March 17 2018, 12:09pm | Comments
Bookmark Forensic Architecture: the detail behind the devilry | Art and design |…
In 2006 a man walked into an internet cafe in Kassel, Germany, and shot dead Halit Yozgat, a 21-year-old member of the Turkish-German family who owned it. It was the ninth…

March 13 2018, 8:02am | Comments
Bookmark Second Life Still Has 600,000 Regular Users - The Atlantic
Second Life was supposed to be the future of the internet, but then Facebook came along. Yet many people still spend hours each day inhabiting this virtual realm. Their stories—and the…

November 26 2017, 10:30am | Comments
Bookmark The Alt-Right and Antifa Are Waging a New Kind of Internet Warfare…
Live long enough and you may hear future historians recall the war between 4chan and an art collective called LaBeouf, Rönkkö & Turner.

September 6 2017, 3:24am | Comments
Portfolio The Compulsions of the Similar: Animated GIFs and the TechnoCultural Body

July 15 2017, 7:02am | Comments
Bookmark Making Sense of “The Weird and the Eerie” - Los Angeles Review…
THIS BOOK WAS PUBLISHED in the United Kingdom on December 15, 2016; Mark Fisher died on the January 13, 2017. I have written some of my personal reflections on his death…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark Regulating the internet giants: The world’s most valuable resource is no longer…
A NEW commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now…

May 8 2017, 6:35am | Comments
Bookmark The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction
Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present.…

April 3 2017, 4:54am | Comments

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