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…And With The World to Win: DSA Convention 2019
On the floor in Atlanta, as DSA delegates passed back and forth in the halls and sat outside for a smoke or some fresh air, there was an undeniable display of humanity and solidarity.
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BREAKING: DSA votes to endorse Open Borders and a Green New Deal program at Atlanta Convention
Delegates of the Democratic Socialists of America convened in Atlanta for their 2019 National Convention, where they overwhelmingly voted in favor of resolutions that, among other things, call for open borders and endorsing a Green New Deal program.
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All My Friends Live In My Phone and So Do I: Part VI
Part VI: Finding Our Phones Again When we talk about the future today, we envision the valleys and peaks of the modern world in sharp relief. Our flirtation with inadvertent self-extinction through climate collapse brings to some despair, to others a perverse and nihilistic joy. Still others reject in principle that the danger is real.
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All My Friends Live In My Phone and So Do I: Part V
Part V: Keeping the Lights On I’m getting tired of using the word “technology” in this series. It feels so vaguely retrospective, like I’m referring to some historical phenomenon, and not, for instance, the laptop I’m writing on right now.
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All My Friends Live In My Phone and So Do I: Part IV
Part IV: The Anxious and the Bored So now we have left behind the “home computer” and are in the process of replacing the “personal computer” as the primary means of digital communication. Without delving into senseless techno-pessimism or generational abstractions, we have to ask what this technology is doing to us, and how it…
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All My Friends Live In My Phone and So Do I: Part III
Part III: Two Houses The establishment of the new role, the consumer of computers for the home, was only made possible by the proliferation of new form factors and roles. The demands of institutions and business became less central to the producers of home computers.
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All My Friends Live In My Phone and So Do I: Part II
Part II: A Genealogy of Silicon Computers were fun once. They were fun in the way that rally cars are fun: for the people who got deeply into them, the real joy derived from learning how they worked. Computers of the past were, of course, infinitely more finicky, frustrating, and limited in all respects, disadvantaged…
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All My Friends Live in My Phone and So Do I: Part I
Very recently I found myself adrift, a ghost untethered from the world. I had lost my phone. I didn’t have my watch either—and so, having nothing but time, I went for a walk. It was cold, and my breath fogged in the air.
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No Apocalypse
The world as we know it—the world of plastics, of cheap consumer goods, of the Internet—exists on a floated loan from the primordial past: a loan that has been silently accumulating interest. Our creditor, however, has not yet come to collect, and our deferments stretch on for lifetimes. We are paying for our lives in…
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