“Franzen’s 6,400-word piece in The Guardian may be the last cry of the last dinosaur going down for the last time in the tar pit”

“the Internet is where we live. It’s not a place we go to anymore; it’s a layer over everything”

“Unsolved Mysteries injected a sense of the enchanted in an otherwise mundane suburban landscape”

“the tools used to make film, the science of it, are not racially neutral”

“why must a photo of my face be justified when a photo of my bookshelf is not?”

“selfies suggest the world we observe through social media is more interesting when people insert themselves into it”

“Week 5: Feedback: Bruno Latour comments on your blogs”

“the “government as a platform” agenda assumes that private industry is the best way of delivering public services”

“The problem with the relentless “search for meaning” is that it extinguishes all meaning in favour of pure emotion”

“the Internet is producing more extreme forms of modernism than modernism ever dreamed of”

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