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Questions for the Holographic Self
Continuing my breathtakingly narcissistic endeavour of ‘blogging my notes to myself’, I figure after last my post – which was way too wishy-washy, even for me – it might be time for some concrete...
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Your Facebook Profile: A Second Mirror Stage?
Heh. No, not really. K, so this whole ‘blogging notes to myself’ thing? Done. I was (not very successfully) using it to try and motivate myself. But ultimately, spitting up incomplete, generally...
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When Civilization Disappears
So, the trailer above is for District 9-meets-I Am Legend-meets-Cloverfield movie Monsters. This, apparently, is the actual title for the film, as I imagine we are so deep into 21st century irony that...
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Fucking with Fucking
Of all the many contradictions of modern North America, few are confusing – and yet emblematic – as the double-standards that surround female sexuality. That we live in a world in which the image of...
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The Unending Flood, Hipsterism and Hope
The web makes it rather hard not to have opinions. The constant rush of new information, media and art means that the way we situate ourselves in life – which is to say, the way we position ourselves...
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Google, China and The Ghosts of Opium Ships
One aspect of the web that I have pretty consistently ignored here is some inquiry into what I guess you’d call its ‘global dimensions’. For example, I imagine that if you were to somehow map both...
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“Like Walking Through Cobwebs”
Today on Twitter, a couple of people I follow had a brief conversation about polyamory. It was intriguing, in part because it was tinged with the ambivalence that can often characterize some aspects of...
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Writing on Film
This may be nothing at all, but I feel like I’m noticing a trend: Film is suddenly being infiltrated by text. I saw this first in Zombieland, in which rules were written on the screen as the film...
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Unboxing Unboxing
I have always wanted unboxing to get more attention than it does. It’s not just the fetishization of the object that seems so intriguing to me, but also what almost amounts to an unexpected rebirth of...
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A Random, Stupid Thought About The Attention Economy
A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure of seeing sitarist Irshad Khan play at Harbourfront. Like all Indian classical musicians, Khan has spent his entire life practising and playing his instrument...
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Twitter, My Peg Leg
A while ago, I was walking home at around midnight. Across the road, a woman was also walking, perhaps a few steps behind me. I had to cross the street to get to my apartment and, despite normally...
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Checking In to Check Yourself Out
It is difficult not to occasionally smile a bit wryly when people take to Twitter to decry the ‘inanity’ and ‘narcissism’ of location app Foursquare. Like Twitter before it, a brief description of the...
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A Study in Contrasts and Other Lame Blog Post Titles
It’s true that The Books’ new album is pretty fascinating . Like in “Cold Freezing Night”, my favourite track off the disc, The Books have become experts at weaving strange, catchy soundscapes of...
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The Aspirational Index
When it comes to measuring the state and potential of cities, most of our metrics are, well, rather dry. Almost axiomatically, they are socio-economic in nature: GDP, income breakdown, employment, the...
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The Soul/Made Cyborg
Note: This is one of 50 posts about cyborgs, a month-long series put together by Quiet Babylon‘s Tim Maly commemorating the 50th anniversary of the term ‘cyborg‘.You can read the rest of the posts by...
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The Coin, When Spinning, Still Glints in the Light
We exist in a weird moment in history: On the one hand, the aggregative power of the web to collect and centralize knowledge and intelligence is laying bare the power of ‘public knowledge’, softening...
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Wax Interlude: “Vinkonur”, Ólöf Arnalds
Ólöf Arnalds is an Icelandic singer, whose voice you may recognise from electronic outfit Múm. Her solo work, however, is far more eclectic, such as on her new album, Innidunr Skinni, which is all...
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For Bodies That Beckon
For a couple of months now, I’ve seen this ad on the subway. In what I think is the a situation for a lot of straight male feminists, my reaction to this was both “wow, seriously?” and, um, “hm, that’s...
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Everything is an Algorithm
I cannot even begin to express how much I like this clip from Blind Type – a touch-screen keyboard that lets you type without looking. How does it work? Well, I have precisely no idea. But if I had to...
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Totally Spaced, Man
Let’s be honest, folks: if you read this blog, the chances that you have sat (perhaps in your pajamas) and blown a couple of hours of some cold, rainy morning in front of your computer watching TV or a...
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