“if you haven’t visited the Deep Web, you ain’t seen nothing yet”

“nothing in society makes sense except in the light of power. And that goes for speech, too”

“it used to be hard to connect when friends formed clicks, but it is even more difficult to connect now that clicks form friends”

“how did the Awkward Party Comment shift from “I know, I read your Livejournal” to “You read what I posted on Facebook, right?”

“Red Bull will most likely never fund a trip to Mars or a high speed rail line”

“It became very difficult to look at the Empire State Building or the Chrysler Building without thinking that they looked CG”

“self-broadcasting always feels like agency, even if it only builds the walls of our own personal terrordome”

“A 3-year-old shouldn’t know which of her actions are worthy of being documented”

“gamification seems to invite false consciousness arguments because it’s scary that “play” can be so completely non-transgressive”

“Are we using technology to stylize our unease with the present, our feeling of disconnection from the past?”

“Why I felt OK outing Violentacrez: Anonymity should be valued mainly to the extent it helps protect powerless from powerful. VA wasn’t that”

“Trecartin’s characters, like the modern-day technophiles they satirise, are umbilically linked to their Blackberries”

“Surface is going to make some kind of history for Microsoft, one way or another”

“I always react negatively against the idea that technology is a foreign body inside the human” (1997)

“You do not hear about a YouTube video in the press w/o hearing about how many views it has, and that’s not accidental”

“over the past two years social media has also become an increasingly hostile place for women writers and journalists”

“to design with an eye to how clothes look online, perhaps sacrificing how they feel on the body”

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Ready (Re’Search Wait’S), 2009-2010 from Ryan Trecartin on Vimeo.