{"id":14286,"date":"2013-02-03T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-03T16:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=14286"},"modified":"2013-02-03T12:14:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-03T16:14:53","slug":"in-their-words-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/02\/03\/in-their-words-31\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/theclustermag.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/how-to-be-a-person-in-the-age-of-autoimmunity\/\" target=\"_blank\">for those of us whose bodies seem like a burden or an ontological prison, the Internet functions as a utopia of sorts<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marginalutility\/status\/295570924680400897\" target=\"_blank\">Vine&#8217;s six seconds feels like an eternity<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/laurie-penny\/2013\/01\/take-back-net-its-time-end-culture-online-misogyny\" target=\"_blank\">These messages are intended specifically to shame and frighten women out of engaging online<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/npr_articles\/2013\/jan\/28\/what-it-feels-like-to-be-photographed-in-a-moment-of-grief\/\" target=\"_blank\">I hear &#8216;clickclickclickclickclick&#8217; all over the place&#8230;they are photographing me, and now I&#8217;m pissed. I felt like a zoo animal<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/01\/29\/the-many-feelings-of-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook is not *doing* anything to society<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/readwrite.com\/2013\/01\/29\/why-do-americans-hate-android-and-love-apple\" target=\"_blank\">we don&#8217;t like seeing Apple bloggers imply Android&#8217;s success doesn&#8217;t count because what\u2014poor people don&#8217;t count?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/blogs\/dtake\/wicked-pictures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why do we photograph the aftermath of misadventure?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thefrailestthing.com\/2013\/01\/25\/from-memory-scarcity-to-memory-abundance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Plato was right. The efficient and durable externalization of memory makes us personally indifferent to remembrance<\/a>&#8220;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2013\/01\/20\/facebook-graph-search-is-humorless-creepy-and-doomed-to-disappoint\/\" target=\"_blank\">by pretending that joining up all those disconnected dots is no big deal, Facebook is being dishonest and dumb<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/threatlevel\/2013\/01\/camover-targets-cctvs\/?utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Teams of players are charged with taking out as many [surveillance] cameras as possible<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.ca\/hazlitt\/blog\/vine-human-oscilloscope-and-why-it-will-be-big-deal\" target=\"_blank\">make no mistake: Vine will be a big deal<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/future_tense\/2013\/01\/wonga_lenddo_lendup_big_data_and_social_networking_banking.single.html\" target=\"_blank\">poor people have little choice but to surrender their privacy in the name of social mobility<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/01\/31\/dreams-of-digital-death-winstates-and-narrative-limitations\/\" target=\"_blank\">We\u2019ll probably see a day when games aren\u2019t defined by winstates<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/nathanjurgenson.tumblr.com\/post\/42051701930\/the-android-warhol-to-be-built-at-an-estimated-cost\" target=\"_blank\">why not use a robot of Andy to dramatize his philosophy?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5981027\/\" target=\"_blank\">There is something about watching a missile vaporize a guy from the view of a close up camera<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/theory.cribchronicles.com\/2013\/01\/30\/connected-learning-getting-beyond-technological-determinism\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is digital dualism, but it\u2019s also determinism at work<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/13\/01\/what-happens-when-you-walk-into-a-bar-wearing-google-glasses\/272745\/\" target=\"_blank\">It seems *normal* to them to walk into a bar with Google Glasses, even though everyone&#8217;s smirking at them<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/usurer-illusion\/\" target=\"_blank\">it appears no accident that expansion of personal debt occurred pari passu with technological development<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2013\/01\/venture-capitals-massive-terrible-idea-for-the-future-of-college#more-155388\" target=\"_blank\">MOOCs are an essentially authoritarian structure; a one-way process in which the student is a passive recipient<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Nathan is on Twitter [<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nathanjurgenson\" target=\"_blank\">@nathanjurgenson<\/a>] and Tumblr [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nathanjurgenson.com\" target=\"_blank\">nathanjurgenson.com<\/a>].<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/e43029b6bd40245bd1ea68f2893bcc9c\/tumblr_mhj05j9nuZ1r8z539o1_500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/33b2f295e7d4a461070c20aaead8cc3e\/tumblr_mhdf4q709q1r8z539o1_500.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"252\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>tech and society quotes from what i read this past week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":559,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18297],"tags":[36439,2954,18298,3507,12],"class_list":["post-14286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-their-words","tag-in-their-words","tag-jurgenson","tag-quotes","tag-society","tag-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/559"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14286"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14317,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14286\/revisions\/14317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}