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Author: PGR

  • Lana Swartz, payment as media

    I watched this LCC guest lecture by Lana Swartz as a livestream about a month back, and glad to see it’s finally made its way out to public availability. The basic argument is right there in the title of this post—payment as media—but I wholeheartedly recommend anyone with an interest in the usual theoretical thematics…

  • stop press: technologist spontaneously (re)invents postmodernism

    Matt Webb thinks through the map’s mediation of the territory. I don’t mean to whale on Webb here, to be clear, as he’s by far one of the more enlightened and well-intentioned thinkers in that space. But nonetheless this is a salutory reminder that, sociologically and philosophically speaking, the tech world is lagging the leading…

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  • severed connection / burning boat

    Finally terminated my contract on my UK mobile SIM, which expired at midnight last night. I’ve had a Swedish number since April or thereabouts, and there’s no way to maintain a valid UK number without considerable hoopla and at least £10 of costs per month… and of course the affordances of EU roaming data are…

  • 2020 in books

    This year, as many years before, I had hoped to both increase the amount of books I read and write about what I read here on the blog. The latter has been rather less successful than the former, though not without good reason; after two months of preparing to relocate and near-as-dammit ten months of…