We propose to examine how endless streams of information can lead to individualized forms of insanity and dislocation, the ways in which social media is not merely reflecting the world but remaking it in its own image; how search trends can reveal societal pathologies, and much, much more.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PRELIMINARIES – An opening broadside.
The Resistable Rise of Pattern Machines
A manifesto, of sorts
By The Collective
PABLUM – Light discussion; easily digestible fare.
Notified Off The Wagon
The New Nexus of Addiction
By The Collective
Instagrammification
Inadvertent Advertising in a Selfie-Stick Society
By Caris Fawcett
Oedipal Cuckplex
Data Science, Societal Pathologies, and the Garbage Heap of Culture
By The Collective
PAEANS – Poetry in the service of…
The Bygone Tree
By David Williams III
Livestreaming The Apocalypse
By Steven Monacelli
Banned From Tinder
By Catherine Chambers
PALAVER – Ruminations punctuated with analysis.
Cathedral Full of Mirrors
Capitalist Dislocation and the New Hyperobject
By Tyler Walicek
Simulacra and Self-Simulation
The Threat of Self-Simulation, the Promise of Simulacratic Rights
By Steven Monacelli
PROSAICS – Fictive flights of fancy.
Final Dispatch From the InfoWars
By Carl Harris
Devices
By Seth Garben
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