{"id":15639,"date":"2013-05-12T09:04:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T13:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/?p=15639"},"modified":"2013-05-12T09:04:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T13:04:03","slug":"in-their-words-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/05\/12\/in-their-words-45\/","title":{"rendered":"In Their Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kashmirhill\/2013\/05\/04\/living-on-bitcoin-for-a-week-bitcoiners-are-the-new-vegans\/\" target=\"_blank\">paying in Bitcoin could be more convenient than converting to local currency while traveling abroad<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2013\/may\/06\/the-myth-of-web-toxicity\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Miller was never more aware of the internet than when he made himself live without it<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/05\/su-casa-es-mi-casa\/\" target=\"_blank\">Airbnb indulges the fantasy that we might temporarily inhabit another life<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/05\/08\/the-unspoken-concerns-about-moocs\/\" target=\"_blank\">the MOOC threatens the liminal space currently held by colleges and universities within the life course<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/elements\/2013\/05\/the-wisdom-of-the-lonely-crowds.html\" target=\"_blank\">after about a year of usefulness, Yelp very quickly became a terrible source of information<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2013\/05\/a-year-without-the-internet\" target=\"_blank\">Apparently no one has ever sent Nicholas Carr or Sherry Turkle a tastefully brief Snapchat<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/05\/07\/dispatches-from-ephemeral-social-media\/\" target=\"_blank\">no one remembers what YOLO meant<\/a>&#8220;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/marginalutilityannex.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/07\/solipsis\/\" target=\"_blank\">The more we share in social media, the more clearly we define the negative space where the ineffable self resides<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/05\/05\/technology\/google-glass-offers-more-tech-magic-if-you-can-afford-it.html?_r=1&amp;\" target=\"_blank\">It was a dazzling taste of something I\u2019d previously seen only in science-fiction movies<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmuseum.org\/calendar\/view\/sext-me-if-you-can-by-karen-finley-performance-and-installation-2\" target=\"_blank\">Finley creates a limited edition of paintings inspired by \u201csexts\u201d that she receives<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2013\/05\/the-unverified\" target=\"_blank\">To deny the indulgence of verification is a small gesture which holds religious meaning to me<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/rhizome.org\/editorial\/2013\/may\/8\/notes-asmr-massumi-and-joy-digital-painting\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rhizome-fp+%28Rhizome+%3E+Front+Page%29\" target=\"_blank\">it activates the sensory linkages that allow us to experience touch and movement through our visual sense<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitolhillseattle.com\/2013\/05\/chs-x-files-capitol-hill-drone-pilot-spotted-glowing-orbs-phone-thief-on-wheels\/\" target=\"_blank\">After several minutes, I looked out my third-story window to see a drone hovering a few feet away<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/2013\/05\/10\/the-missing-trackers\/\" target=\"_blank\">what\u2019s going on with gender, the gendering of various self-tracking practices, and Quantified Self?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/kashmirhill\/2013\/05\/09\/25-things-i-learned-about-bitcoin-from-living-on-it-for-a-week\/\" target=\"_blank\">In-person Bitcoin purchases rely heavily on QR codes. I\u2019ve never seen so many people actually using QR codes<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2013\/05\/diaries-the-original-social-media-how-our-obsession-with-documenting-and-sharing-our-own-lives-is-nothing-new\/\" target=\"_blank\">You don\u2019t get a real sense of personal, individual self until the end of the 19th century<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/thenewinquiry.com\/essays\/athletic-aesthetics\/\" target=\"_blank\">If a Tumblr post has no notes, is it art? Does it exist? For young artists using social media, the answer is no<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>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>].<\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-frc1\/p480x480\/393136_10200594851746152_1047711371_n.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net\/hphotos-ak-ash3\/944105_10200595367279040_1306247436_n.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/208904372bc6f34c988bf3dc923b286a\/tumblr_mmi4n9KBuY1qg5hxmo1_500.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/8f2099103d02a1a95142b330ca7e4681\/tumblr_mmckj7Tjlo1r8z539o1_500.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/24.media.tumblr.com\/fefc606610e03e0a7a337eaac18b3d30\/tumblr_mmn9otFLhG1qg5hxmo1_500.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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-15639","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\/15639","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=15639"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15639\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15683,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15639\/revisions\/15683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/cyborgology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}