{"id":12424,"date":"2012-10-21T08:31:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-21T12:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=12424"},"modified":"2012-10-21T08:35:28","modified_gmt":"2012-10-21T12:35:28","slug":"in-their-words-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2012\/10\/21\/in-their-words-16\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

“if you haven\u2019t visited the Deep Web, you ain\u2019t seen nothing yet<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“nothing in society makes sense except in the light of power. And that goes for speech, too<\/a>”<\/p>\n

\u201cit used to be hard to connect when friends formed clicks, but it is even more difficult to connect now that clicks form friends<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

“how did the Awkward Party Comment shift from \u201cI know, I read your Livejournal\u201d to \u201cYou read what I posted on Facebook, right?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n

“Red Bull will most likely never fund a trip to Mars or a high speed rail line<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“It became very difficult to look at the Empire State Building or the Chrysler Building without thinking that they looked CG<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“self-broadcasting always feels like agency, even if it only builds the walls of our own personal terrordome<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“A 3-year-old shouldn\u2019t know which of her actions are worthy of being documented<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“gamification seems to invite false consciousness arguments because it’s scary that “play” can be so completely non-transgressive<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Are we using technology to stylize our unease with the present, our feeling of disconnection from the past?<\/a>”<\/p>\n

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

“Trecartin\u2019s characters, like the modern-day technophiles they satirise, are umbilically linked to their Blackberries<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“Surface is going to make some kind of history for Microsoft, one way or another<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“I always react negatively against the idea that technology is a foreign body inside the human<\/a>” (1997)<\/p>\n

“You do not hear about a YouTube video in the press w\/o hearing about how many views it has, and that\u2019s not accidental<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“over the past two years social media has also become an increasingly hostile place for women writers and journalists<\/a>”<\/p>\n

“to design with an eye to how clothes look online, perhaps sacrificing how they feel on the body<\/a>”<\/p>\n

Follow Nathan on Twitter: @nathanjurgenson<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n


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