Author: PGR

  • 11DEC19 / accessions

    Yeah, I really did go a bit nuts on the Palgrave sale. Still more to come…

  • Burnout

  • a quasi-military device

    Loads of grimly chewy stuff in this Will Davies interview. Like this map-is-not-the-territory riff about smartphones, f’rex: What the phone promises you psychologically is not content as such, but a space on the screen that is totally obedient to you. This translates into the illusion that the world, seen through the screen, will be equally…

  • nontransparent, unspiderable

    Nicholas Carr on Page and Brin’s vanishing trick: They were prophets, Larry and Sergey. When, in their famous 1998 grad-school paper “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine,” they introduced Google to the world, they warned that if the search engine were ever to leave the “academic realm” and become a business, it…

  • Capitalistrianity