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Sunday Rant: Sometimes the Enemy is Me
Oh, what a difference a year makes. And maybe that’s just it: maybe it’s circumstantial, maybe it’s related to the fact that a year ago I was there and now I am here, and everything, but also nothing,...
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On the Art of Staying in Touch
I. Christmas cards This year, some are hand-delivered. At the farmers’ market, I run into some friends; they pull a card out of a coat pocket, but it gets lost amongst the leeks and the potatoes and I...
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Notes on Space, Place, Facebook, Harry Potter, and the Construction of Identity/ies 1. I don't use Facebook very much these days. I don't object to it, as an entity, an organism: I think it's entitled...
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If you put up a mirror to my Pinterest page, you’d see the kinds of things that make me tick. And with that comes the things I like to wear, read and listen to, the places I want to go, the people I...
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The Fragmented Self
Earlier I wrote about the possibility of there being “different internets”, in the same way that there are different versions of the same city. This is about a way of seeing, a way of experiencing and...
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What we (don’t) write about when we write about technology
The other day this tweet from Nathan Jurgenson appeared in my feed: finished my weekly reading of the NYTimes tech section. it is almost indistinguishable from the business section It reminded me of...
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On Kickstarter and Dreams
“What if Kickstarter is more about the experience of kickstarting than it is about the finished products?” asks Ian Bogost in a recent piece for Fast Company. Well, that’s precisely what Kickstarter...
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This summer, I inadvertently took a break from the internet.
This is not a tirade against the internet. And when I say ‘break’ I don’t mean that I’ve shut off the wifi, hidden the laptop, thrown the mobile phone into the sea, and started knitting by candlelight...
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‘How should I appear to be?’ : On Lena Dunham’s Girls
First, let’s get a few things out of the way: I’m a white American female. I went to a private liberal arts college. I’m a (struggling) writer. I’m in my mid twenties. Very probably if the target...
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Sifting through the temporal tangle
There’s an episode of Doctor Who in which the eponymous time-traveling Doctor finds himself in an alternate timeline, where it’s always 2:02pm on the 22nd of April, 2011. Other things are amiss too:...
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“Where does your writing live?”
[A]t least to the more mobile and networked of us, place has become less about our origins on some singular piece of blood soil, and more about forming connections with the many sites in our lives. We...
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