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The Technological Condition

How do our tools transform us?

Read the Editors’ Introduction
Robotics •
Internet •
Science Fiction •
Manual Competence •
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Data Science •
Biotechnology •
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Essay | Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • Laurence Scott

Gratuitous Display

The American diner and the viral tip

Laurence Scott

Essay | Fall 2020

Fall 2020

  • Geoff Shullenberger

The New Net Delusion

How 2010’s digital utopians became 2020’s tech prophets of doom

Geoff Shullenberger

Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • L. M. Sacasas

The Analog City and the Digital City

How online life breaks the old political order

L. M. Sacasas

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Essay | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • Tara Isabella Burton

Eat Me, Drink Me, Like Me

Is love in the attention economy unreal?

Tara Isabella Burton

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Review | Winter 2020

Winter 2020

  • Michael M. Rosen

Why We Choose Surveillance Capitalism

Americans don’t care about privacy as much as they say.

Michael M. Rosen

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Review | Fall 2019

Fall 2019

  • Geoff Shullenberger

We All Wear Tinfoil Hats Now

How fears of mind control went from paranoid delusion to conventional wisdom

Geoff Shullenberger

Symposium | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

The Inescapable Town Square
Preserving Real-Life Childhood
How Not to Regulate Social Media
The Four Facebooks
Do You Know Who Your ‘Friends’ Are?
The Distance Between Us
The Emergent Order of Twitter
Imagine All the People
Making Friends of Trolls
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Essay | Summer 2019

Summer 2019

  • Ian Marcus Corbin

Analog Anchors for the Online Adrift

How Moleskine sells durability to ephemeral selves

Ian Marcus Corbin

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • Caitrin Keiper

Making Friends of Trolls

On finding familiar faces behind the black mirror

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

Caitrin Keiper

Essay | Spring 2019

Spring 2019

  • James Poulos

Imagine All the People

How the fantasies of the TV era created the disaster of social media

From: The Ruin of the Digital Town Square

James Poulos

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