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🧠 Technology And Self

Explorations of how our devices and digital lives reshape identity, memory, and self-understanding in an age of constant connectivity and curated personas.
The Inner History of Devices
by Sherry Turkle • 2008
Your devices are confidants, not just tools. What they reveal about the self you're becoming.
3.83
81
📱 Digital Intimacy🎭 Online Identity🎰 Digital Addiction
The Inner History of Devices Summary
The Inner History of Devices 92%
Your devices are confidants, not just tools. What they reveal about the self you're becoming.
by Sherry Turkle 2008
3.83
81 ratings
📱 Digital Intimacy🎭 Online Identity🎰 Digital Addiction
Alone Together
by Sherry Turkle • 2011
Robots comfort the elderly, screens raise children. What we lose when machines mediate intimacy.
3.62
6k+
🤖 Social Robotics📱 Digital Isolation🎭 Online Identity
Alone Together Summary
Alone Together 92%
Robots comfort the elderly, screens raise children. What we lose when machines mediate intimacy.
by Sherry Turkle 2011
3.62
6k+ ratings
🤖 Social Robotics📱 Digital Isolation🎭 Online Identity
Life in Code
by Ellen Ullman • 2017
Programming is obsession, not logic, and the people who built the internet mistrust human beings.
3.96
1k+
👩‍💻 Women In Tech🖥️ Tech Culture📵 Digital Isolation
Life in Code Summary
Life in Code 91%
Programming is obsession, not logic, and the people who built the internet mistrust human beings.
by Ellen Ullman 2017
3.96
1k+ ratings
👩‍💻 Women In Tech🖥️ Tech Culture📵 Digital Isolation
You Are Not a Gadget
by Jaron Lanier • 2010
The internet reduces people to data points. The people who built it call that wisdom.
3.57
6k+
🖥️ Digital Criticism🧑‍💻 Tech Humanism🤔 Technoskepticism
You Are Not a Gadget Summary
You Are Not a Gadget 91%
The internet reduces people to data points. The people who built it call that wisdom.
by Jaron Lanier 2010
3.57
6k+ ratings
🖥️ Digital Criticism🧑‍💻 Tech Humanism🤔 Technoskepticism
Black Mirror and Philosophy
by David Kyle Johnson • 2019
Every Black Mirror episode is a philosophical thought experiment hiding inside a dystopian thriller.
4.09
161
🦾 Philosophy Of Technology📺 Pop Culture Philosophy🧠 Digital Consciousness
Black Mirror and Philosophy Summary
Black Mirror and Philosophy 91%
Every Black Mirror episode is a philosophical thought experiment hiding inside a dystopian thriller.
by David Kyle Johnson 2019
4.09
161 ratings
🦾 Philosophy Of Technology📺 Pop Culture Philosophy🧠 Digital Consciousness
The End of Absence
by Michael Harris • 2014
The last generation to know life before the internet reveals what constant connection has hidden.
3.63
2k+
🌐 Internet Criticism📺 Media Ecology🧠 Attention Economy
The End of Absence Summary
The End of Absence 91%
The last generation to know life before the internet reveals what constant connection has hidden.
by Michael Harris 2014
3.63
2k+ ratings
🌐 Internet Criticism📺 Media Ecology🧠 Attention Economy
Program or Be Programmed
by Douglas Rushkoff • 2010
Digital tools have biases. If you can't read their code, someone else writes your behavior.
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2k+
🌐 Media Ecology⚖️ Technological Bias🎮 Digital Agency
Program or Be Programmed Summary
Program or Be Programmed 91%
Digital tools have biases. If you can't read their code, someone else writes your behavior.
by Douglas Rushkoff 2010
3.72
2k+ ratings
🌐 Media Ecology⚖️ Technological Bias🎮 Digital Agency
To Save Everything, Click Here
by Evgeny Morozov • 2013
Silicon Valley promised a world without friction. Friction, mess, and dissent are what keep us free.
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1k+
💻 Tech Criticism🗳️ Internet Politics⚖️ Algorithms And Bias
To Save Everything, Click Here Summary
To Save Everything, Click Here 91%
Silicon Valley promised a world without friction. Friction, mess, and dissent are what keep us free.
by Evgeny Morozov 2013
3.67
1k+ ratings
💻 Tech Criticism🗳️ Internet Politics⚖️ Algorithms And Bias
What to Think About Machines That Think
by John Brockman • 2015
The real threat isn't machines that outthink us. It's handing control to machines that can't think.
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571
🤖 Artificial Intelligence⚖️ Ai Ethics🎯 Ai Alignment
What to Think About Machines That Think Summary
What to Think About Machines That Think 91%
The real threat isn't machines that outthink us. It's handing control to machines that can't think.
by John Brockman 2015
3.37
571 ratings
🤖 Artificial Intelligence⚖️ Ai Ethics🎯 Ai Alignment
In Emergency, Break Glass
by Nate Anderson • 2022
Nietzsche saw your smartphone coming: the 19th-century antidote to an age of endless scrolling.
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323
🏛️ Applied Philosophy🔧 Technology Critique📱 Attention Economy
In Emergency, Break Glass Summary
In Emergency, Break Glass 91%
Nietzsche saw your smartphone coming: the 19th-century antidote to an age of endless scrolling.
by Nate Anderson 2022
3.91
323 ratings
🏛️ Applied Philosophy🔧 Technology Critique📱 Attention Economy
Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology
by Edward H. Spence • 2021
We're building superintelligence without a control plan. Stoicism has one.
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2
🏛️ Modern Stoicism🤖 Ai Ethics🎯 Ai Alignment
Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology Summary
Stoic Philosophy and the Control Problem of AI Technology 91%
We're building superintelligence without a control plan. Stoicism has one.
by Edward H. Spence 2021
4.50
2 ratings
🏛️ Modern Stoicism🤖 Ai Ethics🎯 Ai Alignment
Me
by Mel R. Thompson • 2009
Your self is not a fixed thing but a map you draw and redraw every day.
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203
🧠 Philosophy Of Self🏗️ Constructed Self💭 Memory And Identity
Me Summary
Me 90%
Your self is not a fixed thing but a map you draw and redraw every day.
by Mel R. Thompson 2009
3.55
203 ratings
🧠 Philosophy Of Self🏗️ Constructed Self💭 Memory And Identity
The Inevitable
by Kevin Kelly • 2016
Twelve forces are bending civilization in one direction, and we have just left the gate.
3.89
12k+
🔄 Digital Economy🔮 Technological Forecasting📊 Information Economy
The Inevitable Summary
The Inevitable 90%
Twelve forces are bending civilization in one direction, and we have just left the gate.
by Kevin Kelly 2016
3.89
12k+ ratings
🔄 Digital Economy🔮 Technological Forecasting📊 Information Economy
Tech Agnostic
by Greg Epstein • 2024
Technology sold you a faith: saints, sacraments, apocalypse. The humanist case for walking away.
3.49
156
🕉️ Digital Religion⚙️ Technology Criticism🤔 Techno-Skepticism
Tech Agnostic Summary
Tech Agnostic 90%
Technology sold you a faith: saints, sacraments, apocalypse. The humanist case for walking away.
by Greg Epstein 2024
3.49
156 ratings
🕉️ Digital Religion⚙️ Technology Criticism🤔 Techno-Skepticism
Possible Minds
by John Brockman • 2019
Twenty-five thinkers on AI's biggest risks and the one design question that matters most.
3.77
837
🤖 Ai Ethics⚙️ Ai Alignment🔄 Cybernetics
Possible Minds Summary
Possible Minds 90%
Twenty-five thinkers on AI's biggest risks and the one design question that matters most.
by John Brockman 2019
3.77
837 ratings
🤖 Ai Ethics⚙️ Ai Alignment🔄 Cybernetics
Computer Power and Human Reason
by Joseph Weizenbaum • 1976
The computer's greatest danger isn't outthinking us; it's that we'll remake ourselves in its image.
4.31
294
🦾 Philosophy Of Technology🤖 Ai Criticism⚖️ Computer Ethics
Computer Power and Human Reason Summary
Computer Power and Human Reason 90%
The computer's greatest danger isn't outthinking us; it's that we'll remake ourselves in its image.
by Joseph Weizenbaum 1976
4.31
294 ratings
🦾 Philosophy Of Technology🤖 Ai Criticism⚖️ Computer Ethics
How to Thrive in the Digital Age
by Tom Chatfield • 2012
Your phone rewired your brain. The repair is a humanist reset, not a detox.
3.08
598
🧘 Digital Wellbeing🧠 Attention Management📖 Digital Literacy
How to Thrive in the Digital Age Summary
How to Thrive in the Digital Age 90%
Your phone rewired your brain. The repair is a humanist reset, not a detox.
by Tom Chatfield 2012
3.08
598 ratings
🧘 Digital Wellbeing🧠 Attention Management📖 Digital Literacy
Reclaiming Conversation
by Sherry Turkle • 2015
Texts and posts replaced real conversation, and we lost something irreplaceable in the trade.
3.80
5k+
🛑 Techno Skepticism🌐 Media Ecology📱 Attention Crisis
Reclaiming Conversation Summary
Reclaiming Conversation 90%
Texts and posts replaced real conversation, and we lost something irreplaceable in the trade.
by Sherry Turkle 2015
3.80
5k+ ratings
🛑 Techno Skepticism🌐 Media Ecology📱 Attention Crisis
The Distraction Addiction
by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang • 2013
Digital detox is a dead end. Real focus starts with breathing, not unplugging.
3.52
641
🧘 Digital Mindfulness⚖️ Tech-Life Balance🎯 Attention Management
The Distraction Addiction Summary
The Distraction Addiction 90%
Digital detox is a dead end. Real focus starts with breathing, not unplugging.
by Alex Soojung-Kim Pang 2013
3.52
641 ratings
🧘 Digital Mindfulness⚖️ Tech-Life Balance🎯 Attention Management
The Extinction of Experience
by Christine Rosen • 2024
The price of a seamless life: you lose patience, presence, and the ability to read a face.
3.65
2k+
📱 Digital Culture🎯 Attention Economy🗣 Technology Criticism
The Extinction of Experience Summary
The Extinction of Experience 90%
The price of a seamless life: you lose patience, presence, and the ability to read a face.
by Christine Rosen 2024
3.65
2k+ ratings
📱 Digital Culture🎯 Attention Economy🗣 Technology Criticism
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet
by Pamela Paul • 2021
A hundred things the internet took: boredom, unrecorded mistakes, and the right to disappear.
3.39
3k+
🌐 Internet Culture🧠 Attention Economy📱 Digital Distraction
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet Summary
100 Things We've Lost to the Internet 90%
A hundred things the internet took: boredom, unrecorded mistakes, and the right to disappear.
by Pamela Paul 2021
3.39
3k+ ratings
🌐 Internet Culture🧠 Attention Economy📱 Digital Distraction
12 Bytes
by Jeanette Winterson • 2021
AI has a history: female, literary, and older than electricity. A novelist connects the dots.
3.90
2k+
🤖 Ai Ethics💻 History Of Computing👩‍💻 Tech Feminism
12 Bytes Summary
12 Bytes 90%
AI has a history: female, literary, and older than electricity. A novelist connects the dots.
by Jeanette Winterson 2021
3.90
2k+ ratings
🤖 Ai Ethics💻 History Of Computing👩‍💻 Tech Feminism
Hacking Life
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. • 2019
Life hacking promised control. A critic traces what the optimization movement cannot measure.
3.62
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🖥️ Digital Culture🔍 Self-Help Critique⚙️ Optimization Culture
Hacking Life Summary
Hacking Life 90%
Life hacking promised control. A critic traces what the optimization movement cannot measure.
by Joseph M. Reagle Jr. 2019
3.62
97 ratings
🖥️ Digital Culture🔍 Self-Help Critique⚙️ Optimization Culture
Digital Minimalism
by Cal Newport • 2019
A thirty-day reset that uncovers which apps earn your minutes and which steal them.
4.05
97k+
🧹 Digital Detox💰 Attention Economy🎯 Tech Intentionality
Digital Minimalism Summary
Digital Minimalism 90%
A thirty-day reset that uncovers which apps earn your minutes and which steal them.
by Cal Newport 2019
4.05
97k+ ratings
🧹 Digital Detox💰 Attention Economy🎯 Tech Intentionality
Being Digital
by Nicholas Negroponte • 1995
Why your TV, newspaper, and phone are about to merge into one seamless stream of bits.
3.80
2k+
💻 Digital Transformation📡 Media Convergence🎛️ Interface Design
Being Digital Summary
Being Digital 90%
Why your TV, newspaper, and phone are about to merge into one seamless stream of bits.
by Nicholas Negroponte 1995
3.80
2k+ ratings
💻 Digital Transformation📡 Media Convergence🎛️ Interface Design
Solitude
by Michael Harris • 2017
Your phone checks you 150 times a day. Solitude is the lost art: reclaiming your attention.
3.66
2k+
💰 Attention Economy📵 Digital Detox🎨 Solitude And Creativity
Solitude Summary
Solitude 90%
Your phone checks you 150 times a day. Solitude is the lost art: reclaiming your attention.
by Michael Harris 2017
3.66
2k+ ratings
💰 Attention Economy📵 Digital Detox🎨 Solitude And Creativity
The Atomic Human
by Neil D. Lawrence • 2024
Bleeding, forgetting, doubting: these aren't bugs in the human system. They are the system.
3.41
197
🤖 Artificial Intelligence🧠 Cognitive Science🫂 What Makes Us Human
The Atomic Human Summary
The Atomic Human 90%
Bleeding, forgetting, doubting: these aren't bugs in the human system. They are the system.
by Neil D. Lawrence 2024
3.41
197 ratings
🤖 Artificial Intelligence🧠 Cognitive Science🫂 What Makes Us Human
The Singularity Is Nearer
by Ray Kurzweil • 2024
AI surpasses humans by 2029. The plan is not to compete but to merge.
3.89
5k+
🚀 Technological Acceleration🤖 Artificial Intelligence🔮 Futurism
The Singularity Is Nearer Summary
The Singularity Is Nearer 90%
AI surpasses humans by 2029. The plan is not to compete but to merge.
by Ray Kurzweil 2024
3.89
5k+ ratings
🚀 Technological Acceleration🤖 Artificial Intelligence🔮 Futurism
The Quantified Self
by Deborah Lupton • 2016
Your fitness tracker feeds a digital economy that profits from your body's data.
3.81
86
📊 Digital Self-Tracking👁️ Data And Surveillance🔍 Critical Data Studies
The Quantified Self Summary
The Quantified Self 90%
Your fitness tracker feeds a digital economy that profits from your body's data.
by Deborah Lupton 2016
3.81
86 ratings
📊 Digital Self-Tracking👁️ Data And Surveillance🔍 Critical Data Studies
The Internet of Us
by Michael Patrick Lynch • 2016
Why the age of unlimited data is making it harder, not easier, to agree on what counts as evidence.
3.50
545
🔍 Epistemology💻 Digital Culture📚 Information Overload
The Internet of Us Summary
The Internet of Us 90%
Why the age of unlimited data is making it harder, not easier, to agree on what counts as evidence.
by Michael Patrick Lynch 2016
3.50
545 ratings
🔍 Epistemology💻 Digital Culture📚 Information Overload
AI Ethics
by Mark Coeckelbergh • 2020
Your phone, your hospital, your job: AI is already there. The ethics have barely begun.
3.63
903
🤖 Ai Ethics🏛️ Technology Policy⚖️ Machine Learning Bias
AI Ethics Summary
AI Ethics 90%
Your phone, your hospital, your job: AI is already there. The ethics have barely begun.
by Mark Coeckelbergh 2020
3.63
903 ratings
🤖 Ai Ethics🏛️ Technology Policy⚖️ Machine Learning Bias
Virtually Human
by Martine Rothblatt • 2014
Software copies of human minds will outlive bodies and demand citizenship. They're almost here.
3.51
182
🧠 Mind Uploading💾 Digital Immortality🔮 Transhumanism
Virtually Human Summary
Virtually Human 90%
Software copies of human minds will outlive bodies and demand citizenship. They're almost here.
by Martine Rothblatt 2014
3.51
182 ratings
🧠 Mind Uploading💾 Digital Immortality🔮 Transhumanism
The Singularity Is Near
by Ray Kurzweil • 2005
Progress doubles, then doubles again. Sometime around 2045, human biology becomes optional.
3.93
13k+
🔮 Futurism📈 Exponential Technology🤖 Artificial General Intelligence
The Singularity Is Near Summary
The Singularity Is Near 90%
Progress doubles, then doubles again. Sometime around 2045, human biology becomes optional.
by Ray Kurzweil 2005
3.93
13k+ ratings
🔮 Futurism📈 Exponential Technology🤖 Artificial General Intelligence
Born Digital
by John Palfrey • 2008
When childhood happens online, identity is public, privacy erodes, and creativity becomes remix.
3.62
1k+
🌐 Digital Culture🔬 Internet And Society👤 Digital Identity
Born Digital Summary
Born Digital 90%
When childhood happens online, identity is public, privacy erodes, and creativity becomes remix.
by John Palfrey 2008
3.62
1k+ ratings
🌐 Digital Culture🔬 Internet And Society👤 Digital Identity
Superbloom
by Nicholas Carr • 2025
Communication's speed and abundance were supposed to unite us. Instead, they fragment and enrage.
4.04
2k+
📱 Social Media Critique💻 Digital Culture🌐 Media Ecology
Superbloom Summary
Superbloom 90%
Communication's speed and abundance were supposed to unite us. Instead, they fragment and enrage.
by Nicholas Carr 2025
4.04
2k+ ratings
📱 Social Media Critique💻 Digital Culture🌐 Media Ecology
The Glass Cage
by Nicholas Carr • 2014
The more machines take over, the less we can do ourselves: automation's hidden trade-off.
3.75
2k+
🔬 Technology And Cognition🏭 Automation And Society🔍 Technological Skepticism
The Glass Cage Summary
The Glass Cage 90%
The more machines take over, the less we can do ourselves: automation's hidden trade-off.
by Nicholas Carr 2014
3.75
2k+ ratings
🔬 Technology And Cognition🏭 Automation And Society🔍 Technological Skepticism
The Age of Spiritual Machines
by Ray Kurzweil • 1998
Exponential growth puts thinking machines in our future; the only question is what we become after.
3.89
5k+
🤖 Technological Singularity📈 Exponential Growth🧬 Transhumanism
The Age of Spiritual Machines Summary
The Age of Spiritual Machines 90%
Exponential growth puts thinking machines in our future; the only question is what we become after.
by Ray Kurzweil 1998
3.89
5k+ ratings
🤖 Technological Singularity📈 Exponential Growth🧬 Transhumanism
Radical Technologies
by Adam Greenfield • 2017
Eight technologies that run your day: the invisible tradeoffs reshaping power, work, and identity.
4.02
1k+
⚡ Tech Criticism👁️ Surveillance Capitalism⚖️ Ethics Of Technology
Radical Technologies Summary
Radical Technologies 90%
Eight technologies that run your day: the invisible tradeoffs reshaping power, work, and identity.
by Adam Greenfield 2017
4.02
1k+ ratings
⚡ Tech Criticism👁️ Surveillance Capitalism⚖️ Ethics Of Technology
God, Human, Animal, Machine
by Meghan O'Gieblyn • 2021
We swapped God for AI. A former fundamentalist finds the old religion hiding in our machines.
4.23
4k+
🧠 Consciousness Studies🔧 Technology Criticism⛪ Faith And Technology
God, Human, Animal, Machine Summary
God, Human, Animal, Machine 90%
We swapped God for AI. A former fundamentalist finds the old religion hiding in our machines.
by Meghan O'Gieblyn 2021
4.23
4k+ ratings
🧠 Consciousness Studies🔧 Technology Criticism⛪ Faith And Technology
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power
by Rajiv Malhotra • 2021
Two nations race to own AI. The prize: your job, your mind, and the global pecking order.
4.28
217
🌍 Ai Geopolitics🛡️ Digital Sovereignty🏭 Job Displacement
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power Summary
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Power 90%
Two nations race to own AI. The prize: your job, your mind, and the global pecking order.
by Rajiv Malhotra 2021
4.28
217 ratings
🌍 Ai Geopolitics🛡️ Digital Sovereignty🏭 Job Displacement
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
by Jaron Lanier • 2018
Social media is a behavior-modification machine. The only sane answer: delete your accounts.
3.58
18k+
📱 Social Media Critique⚖️ Tech Ethics🧠 Behavior Modification
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now Summary
Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now 90%
Social media is a behavior-modification machine. The only sane answer: delete your accounts.
by Jaron Lanier 2018
3.58
18k+ ratings
📱 Social Media Critique⚖️ Tech Ethics🧠 Behavior Modification
The Big Switch
by Nicholas Carr • 2008
What electrification did to factories, cloud computing is doing to business, labor, and your mind.
3.84
3k+
⚡ History Of Technology☁️ Cloud Computing🔄 Digital Transformation
The Big Switch Summary
The Big Switch 90%
What electrification did to factories, cloud computing is doing to business, labor, and your mind.
by Nicholas Carr 2008
3.84
3k+ ratings
⚡ History Of Technology☁️ Cloud Computing🔄 Digital Transformation
Lurking
by Joanne McNeil • 2020
Quiet observers were the heart of the early web. Then the internet turned them into data.
3.75
889
🕰️ Internet History💻 Digital Culture🌐 Online Communities
Lurking Summary
Lurking 90%
Quiet observers were the heart of the early web. Then the internet turned them into data.
by Joanne McNeil 2020
3.75
889 ratings
🕰️ Internet History💻 Digital Culture🌐 Online Communities
Digimodernism
by Alan Kirby • 2009
The internet did not just add screens. It ended postmodernism and installed a new cultural logic.
3.49
78
🖥️ Digital Culture📡 Media Theory🔄 Postmodernism Critique
Digimodernism Summary
Digimodernism 90%
The internet did not just add screens. It ended postmodernism and installed a new cultural logic.
by Alan Kirby 2009
3.49
78 ratings
🖥️ Digital Culture📡 Media Theory🔄 Postmodernism Critique
Visions
by Michio Kaku • 2011
When quantum physics, computing, and genetics converge, the 21st century truly begins.
4.03
2k+
🧬 Genetic Engineering🤖 Artificial Intelligence🔮 Futurism
Visions Summary
Visions 90%
When quantum physics, computing, and genetics converge, the 21st century truly begins.
by Michio Kaku 2011
4.03
2k+ ratings
🧬 Genetic Engineering🤖 Artificial Intelligence🔮 Futurism
The Mind’s I
by Douglas R. Hofstadter • 1981
Borges, Turing, a headless mystic: the anthology where the self dissolves one essay at a time.
4.15
6k+
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind👁️ Consciousness Studies🤖 Artificial Intelligence
The Mind’s I Summary
The Mind’s I 90%
Borges, Turing, a headless mystic: the anthology where the self dissolves one essay at a time.
by Douglas R. Hofstadter 1981
4.15
6k+ ratings
🧠 Philosophy Of Mind👁️ Consciousness Studies🤖 Artificial Intelligence
Everyday Chaos
by David Weinberger • 2019
A medical AI diagnoses illness but can't explain how. The age of demanding explanations is over.
3.78
202
🔬 Complexity Science🔄 Systems Thinking🤖 Machine Learning
Everyday Chaos Summary
Everyday Chaos 90%
A medical AI diagnoses illness but can't explain how. The age of demanding explanations is over.
by David Weinberger 2019
3.78
202 ratings
🔬 Complexity Science🔄 Systems Thinking🤖 Machine Learning
Estéticas liminales
by Valentina Tanni • 2023
What if vaporwave, creepypasta wikis, and liminal spaces are the real heart of contemporary art?
4.32
428
🎨 Digital Aesthetics🌐 Online Subcultures📜 Digital Folklore
Estéticas liminales Summary
Estéticas liminales 90%
What if vaporwave, creepypasta wikis, and liminal spaces are the real heart of contemporary art?
by Valentina Tanni 2023
4.32
428 ratings
🎨 Digital Aesthetics🌐 Online Subcultures📜 Digital Folklore
Technopoly
by Neil Postman • 1992
When a culture worships its tools, the old stories that held it together quietly disappear.
3.97
5k+
🎙️ Media Ecology💻 Technology Criticism📊 Information Overload
Technopoly Summary
Technopoly 90%
When a culture worships its tools, the old stories that held it together quietly disappear.
by Neil Postman 1992
3.97
5k+ ratings
🎙️ Media Ecology💻 Technology Criticism📊 Information Overload
Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life
by Katherine Ormerod • 2018
Social media promised connection; it gave us loneliness, debt, and a fractured democracy.
3.49
801
📱 Social Media Critique🧘 Digital Wellness🎣 Attention Economy
Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life Summary
Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life 90%
Social media promised connection; it gave us loneliness, debt, and a fractured democracy.
by Katherine Ormerod 2018
3.49
801 ratings
📱 Social Media Critique🧘 Digital Wellness🎣 Attention Economy
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