Marginal Utility Mirror
Sunday, February 19, 2012
In the Desert, You Can't Remember Your Name (4 October 2004)
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Casino Crawl If you’ve been to an American discount store — Macfrugal’s, Factory 2-U, Dee & Dee, any of the thousands of 99-cent store...
Orwell essay (18 Dec 2008)
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It’s a shame that the word Orwellian now signifies totalitarian surveillance and remodeling reality with lies. Judging by the persona Geor...
Book Arbitrage (2 July 2008)
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On a shopping-friendly holiday like Memorial Day or Labor Day, when thrift stores were open and likely to have sales, we would travel to an ...
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Google and the Production of Curiosity (1 Feb 2012)
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On Twitter, PJ Rey resurrected this August 2010 op-ed by William Gibson that has new currency given the hullaballoo about Google's priv...
Authenticity Issues and the New Intimacies (31 Jan 2012)
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Tom Slee recently began posting about MIT sociologist Sherry Turkle's recent book Alone Together. Turkle, in some ways, is the chief t...
Data Self redux (30 Jan 2012)
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Nathan Jurgenson has some good constructive criticism of my data self posts from last week. He points out that it is not enough to talk a...
Monday, January 30, 2012
Existential Liberalism As Ideological Fog (27 Jan 2012)
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This, from "Reflections on the Call" by Leon de Mattis, in Communization and Its Discontents ( pdf ), is a good point: It is cer...
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