A Phenomenology of the “Like” button
While the flurry of activity of a few months back seems to have mellowed, most Facebook users are probably familiar with the tremendous outcry — ...
While the flurry of activity of a few months back seems to have mellowed, most Facebook users are probably familiar with the tremendous outcry — ...
Why read? Or to paraphrase the Edwin Starr song, Reading: What is it good for? I have finally read Jonathan Franzen’s (in)famous “Harper’s essay” (“Per...
I am thinking today of surfactants. I don’t know why; I have no desire to reduce the surface tension of any liquids. I have the vague notion that most sur...
Like a kid in the proverbial candy shop, I have just discovered that Harper’s has made their entire archive available online to subscribers (like me). Tha...