The End of the Internet: An Interview with Geert Lovink

Geert Lovink is a Dutch media theorist, internet critic, and author of Dark Fiber (2002), My First Recession (2003), Zero Continue reading →

Proxies as Ideology: The Hidden Social Violence of Delegation

Proxies are a necessary method of creating efficiencies in the complex social and technical processes characteristic of modern life. A Continue reading →

Semiotics of the End: Turbo-Violence

The image cannot present itself without a certain force, without a certain amount of violence. The image must always remove, Continue reading →

Resonance Theory: How Can Connection Create Disconnection?

The more we control, the more we are alienated from that which we control. This is the thesis of sociologist Continue reading →

The Question Concerning Memes

In what follows we shall be questioning concerning memes. Our question is: what is the essence of the meme? According Continue reading →

How the Wilderness Calls: A Critique of Red Dead Redemption 2

Life persists in wildness. Technique turned the world into a wildlife park, domesticating all within its borders. Yet it didn’t Continue reading →

Mad(e) Men: Historicism and History as Told Through Period Drama and TV

In the medium of the movies (what used to be short for moving pictures) there is something called an establishing Continue reading →