Velcro City Tourist Board – Page 196 – science fiction / social theory / infrastructural change / utopian narratology

Social media as trench cyberwarfare

Will Davies at the NYT: Many of the anxieties surrounding “post-truth” and “fake news” are really symptoms of a public sphere that moves too quickly, with too great a volume of information, to the point where we either trust our instincts or latch on to others’. There’s a reason Twitter invites users to “follow” one…

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General

25 Feb 2019

Instant Archetypes

So good to see these in their final physical form – a project I’m very proud to have been part of.

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Futures

18 Feb 2019

Opportunity cost

The people who lived in the portal were often compared to those lab rats who kept hitting a button over and over to get a pellet. But at least the rats were getting a pellet, or the hope of a pellet, or the memory of a pellet. When we hit the button, all we were…

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Poetry