This is explicitly a function of nostalgia, but it is nostalgia had second-hand, where the original object is eerily absent, decontextualized and beginning to run down like William Basinski’s Disintegration Loops, where the original recordings were physically destroyed in the process of transferring them over.
Read MoreThis isn’t just a stew of reactionary race science and competitors for world’s most divorced man, though, but one could be forgiven for thinking that. No, this is the veneer of rationality chipping away to reveal the idiocy underneath. What we have here is the fruit of a deprived reason finally coming to harvest – the same reason that claims that the STEM fields are inherently superior to the humanities in the academy, but shuffles people into business school more than STEM, anyway.
Read MoreOf course, looking back over this, my reaction to the whole situation is, essentially: “We shouldn’t make a metaverse, and if we do, you shouldn’t be the ones to make it.”
Read MoreBut we can see an interesting trend: as the number of epidemics tails off, so – generally – do the number of major moral panics. We have the red scare, sure, and prohibition and the devil’s music, and filthy literature – but, generally speaking as the number of epidemics tapers off, the moral panics become fewer and slightly more grounded.
Read MoreNo excerpt really did this piece justice — it is meant as an examination of online gentrification in regard to Tumblr, Itch.io, and the mechanisms by which is works (discourse, it mainly works by discourse), and the side-effects that this is having on the very online and their level of comfort with topics relating to sexuality.
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