Preface
Many words have been written on the internet everyday–some might say too many, but certainly too many to keep up with. I am grateful that you have chosen to read a few of mine, and it is with some regret that I must tell you that I have organized my writings for my convenience—by date—rather than by topic, which would no doubt be more useful to you. Until I am able to put this right, I hope you will forgive the impertinence of simply listing some of the topics you may find in these pages: technology, social media, film, ideology, psychoanalysis, culture, politics, capitalism, anti-capitalism.
Table of Contents
MMXIII
- Critique of User Interface Illusions – May 15
- Compassionate Violence in Buddhism – Apr 3
- She’s Watching the Faces Watching Her – Apr 2
- To Critique Everything, Click Here – Mar 18
- Descartes, Substrate Independence and Other Matters – Mar 5
- The Psychological End of History – Feb 28
- In Defense of Not Giving a Fuck: Or, The Perils of Ethical Purity – Feb 3
- Aaron Swartz’s Non-Martyrdom – Jan 23
MMXII
- Christmas is the Season of Joy and Cultural Criticism – Dec 27
- Left Self-Sabotage – Dec 18
- Technological Determinism and the Myth of Self-Reinvention – Dec 6
- A Review of Wreck-It Ralph – Nov 25
- Intrusion of the Real – Oct 21
- The Future Original – Oct 18
- Authenticity, Remix Culture and Rousseau – Oct 14
- Empathy, an Empty Signifier – Sep 26
- Anything You Get is More Than You Deserve – Sep 15
- A Field Guide to Textareas of the Internet – Aug 26
- Tolkien and the Machine – Jul 30
- A Review of Pixar’s Brave – Jul 15
- Insults & Humiliation – Jun 29
- Organic, Locally-Grown Technology – Jun 18
- Crowdsourcing for Capitalism – Jun 3
- On Social Media and Loneliness – May 22
- On Data Transgression and Technofetishism – May 17
- Data Transgression – May 16
- Ideology and You: Partners in Freedom: Partners in Freedom – Apr 8
- Customized Lovers for Busy Working Professionals – Feb 11
- The Constitutive Antagonism of Cyberspace – Feb 9
- A Review of Sherry Turkle’s Alone Together – Feb 6
- In Which Anonymous Infiltrates a Confidential Conference Call – Feb 4
- There is Only Cyberspace – Feb 3
- A Malfunction in the Cyborgologist Utopia – Jan 28
- On the Progressive Use of Copyright – Jan 19
- Facing The Google Vanguard – Jan 18
- Bertolt Brecht, Super Troll – Jan 16
- Anti-Capitalism and the Politics of Envy – Jan 14
- An Ambitious Plan For Putting Kickstarter Out of Business – Jan 8
- Notes on Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies – Jan 7
- The Peer Production Illusion: Part III: A Society For & Against The Market – Jan 2
MMXI
- The Peer Production Illusion: Part II: The Neoliberal Ideology of P2P – Dec 20
- The Peer Production Illusion: Part I: The Myth of Open Source Software – Dec 19
- Photoshopping the Occupation – Dec 15
- The Network as Interpassive Object – Dec 12
- The Anarchist at the End of the Universe – Nov 28
- Consumer Activism in the Social Factory – Nov 17
- Instrumentalizing Social Life – Nov 16
- Qu’est-ce qu’une vraie femme? - Part 1 – Nov 12
- Qu’est-ce qu’une vraie femme? - Part 2 – Nov 12
- Social Media and Social Corrosion – Oct 28
- I Am Not Deceived – Oct 9
- iPhone, Commodified Resistance – Oct 7
- The Excess of Exaggeration – Sep 30
- Media Hypersexuality: Imaginary or Symbolic? – Sep 25
- Radical Monogamy – Sep 19
- Do You Want a Name For This World? – Sep 15
- The Girl Next Door is No Neighbor – Sep 14
- Erotic Capital and the Power of Beauty – Sep 13
- Home on the Range – Sep 6
- On Buddhism, Happiness and Pessimism – Aug 15
- London Riots: The Limits of Left and Right – Aug 10
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Rioting in the 60s – Aug 9
- You Can’t Check Out of the Peer-to-Peer Motel – Jul 29
- McLuhan’s Ideology – Jul 20
- The Consultant in an Open Relationship Who Plays Settlers of Catan Nearly Twice a Day – Jul 19
- The Consultant in an Open Relationship Who Has Cheese Nearly Twice a Day – Jul 19
- Reading Network Culture – Jul 18
- A World of Disorderly Notions – Jul 14
- The Reflection Without The Vampire – Jul 11
- Capitalist Futures – Jul 11
- Antinomies of Liberalism – Jul 11
- Inauthentic Man – Jul 9
- Pixar’s Class Problem – Jul 9
- Upper Class Chavs – Jun 30
- Since the Dawn of Time: A Series – Jun 23
- Hipster Runoff – Jun 17
- All True Thought Contains a moment of Paranoia – Jun 15
- Anti-Semitism is Bourgeois Self-Hatred – Jun 15
- My Workers Love Work! – Jun 12
- What is Appearance at its Most Radical? – Jun 10
- Elections as Market Competition & Consumer Choice – Jun 9
- Open Wallets, Open Minds – Jun 9
- Feedback Systems are Counterrevolutionary – Jun 8
- Madhouses for the Sane – Jun 6
- Their Sentences No Longer Have Meaning – Jun 5
- Since the dawn of time: A Series – Jun 4
- Socialism and Fear of Socialism – Jun 3
- Infidelity & The Ethics of Personal Happiness – May 31
- Adam Curtis on Self-organizing systems – May 30
- Freedom as the censorship of unfreedom – May 29
- Unfreedom in wants – May 26
- Crowdsourcing Mobile Application Development – May 25
- Crowding out of intrinsic motivations – May 25
- Disobedience affirms the order it ostensibly contests – May 24
- A Functioning Cog In Some Great Machinery – May 4
- How would ethical philosophers redesign Soccer? – May 3
- Žižek in the Cloud – May 3
- The Surprising Truth of How We’re Being Motivated – Apr 24
- Neo-bohemia is Always Contaminated By Nostalgia – Apr 22
- The Actuality of Ayn Rand – Apr 12
- The Dark Side of Humanist Management – Apr 12
- Disengagement is a Luxury – Apr 11
- Google’s Microformats & The Limit of Participation – Apr 5
- Happiness Comes at a Price – Mar 31
- The Greatest Lie of Capitalism – Mar 22
- The Greatest Spying Machine – Mar 15
- This is the Totalitarian Procedure – Mar 3
- A Steam Engine Has No Character – Feb 13
- My Wound Existed Before Me – Feb 12
- Marx Against State Ownership – Jan 31
- Politeness v. Tact – Jan 12
- Uncommitted Sins – Jan 10
MMX
- The Real as Virtual – Dec 27
- It is only through fantasy that the subject is constituted as desiring – Dec 21
- Ryan vs. Kant – Dec 13
- The Messianic Christ & The Limits of Empathy – Oct 4
- Have you ever been in love? – Oct 1
- Misreading Inception with Descartes – Jul 26
- Become like me and I will respect your difference – Jul 21
- In our unconscious, in the real of our desire, we are all murderers – Jun 12
- Why does truth arise through mistakes? – May 4
- Oppose Marijuana Legalization in Washington – May 3
- Beautiful Soul Syndrome – Mar 13
- Beauty & Madness – Mar 2
- We can’t even escape from reality into fantasy any more – Feb 27
- Caught in Play – Feb 25
- Disillusionment of Modern Hedonism – Feb 12
- Become Yourself, Only Better – Jan 26
- A Hegelian angle on Heidegger – Jan 15
- The Americanization of Mental Illness – Jan 10
MMIX
- Biomorality of Happiness – Nov 25
- Dark City & Ideology – Aug 27
- The Demise of the Big Other – Aug 27
- How sex-positive is anti-sex – Jul 16
- Hedonism, Capitalism & Consumerism – Jul 11
- Moral Topology – May 15
- A New Kind of Ignorance – Feb 9
- The Psyche on the Outside – Jan 24
- The Impossible Object – Jan 24