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New Feelings: Selfish Intimacy

Alexandra Molotkow 01-17-2019

My mother noticed what I was up to and eyed me uneasily. “Why do you have to document everything?” she said, as I snapped away at some erotic ceramicware. I told her I didn’t plan to show anyone, but the point was that I could.

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Building to Code

David A. Banks 01-14-2019

The fact that new cities are experiencing a new spin on old problems, instead of leapfrogging American and European mistakes is unsettling. Are the growing pains of cities more intrinsic to urbanization than Howard believed, or have we yet to try something truly new in city-making? The only way to find out is to re-center the human in the city. What I want to do with this column is ask: How do we want to live among technology and each other? Why are cities treated like app platforms?

Building to Code

New Feelings: Phatic Checking

Greg Nissan 01-10-2019

The Google Alerts I had set up for my name, in their sheer absurdity, act as a funhouse mirror image of what I’m looking for when I check my apps. Their simple binary — crash or opening — seemed to mock the inputs for my checking behavior, laying bare how superficial my connection to the news has become while delivering the same quick hit.

New Feelings: Phatic Checking

Silent Shout

Ava Kofman 01-07-2019

The privacy flaws of wi-fi are nearly universal — and yet most of us like to think of ourselves as exempt from its violations. Even when we’re made aware of the problem, we have trouble understanding that it’s actually happening to us. By implicating nearly every viewer who walks past them, these works are a clever attempt to challenge our delusional attitudes about being the exceptions to the rule of mass surveillance.

Silent Shout

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