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mirror, mirror

“…the ongoing transformation, courtesy of Facebook, of the verb to like from a state of mind to an action that you perform with your computer mouse: from a feeling to an assertion of consumer choice. And liking, in general, is commercial … Continue reading

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Freedom of Corrections?

There’s been a lot of conversation around Jonathan Franzen’s new novel Freedom. I haven’t read it, oddly enough I just can’t get that interested in big bourgeois novels at present thanks to a terrible overdose by means of Infinite Jest, … Continue reading

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