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Winter 2023

Issue 29

The annotated table of contents below offers a sneak peek at what's in Issue 29.


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Letter

On Mobs

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We must instead learn how to play a different game: the game of mutual humanization. But how do we know when we are playing that game?


 

Essays

Everything Is Hyperpolitical

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If hyperpolitics offers some tentative clues for analyzing the post-2008 epoch in the West, the concept can only be fully grasped as part of a broader chronology of the political forms—from mass politics to post-politics—that ran across the twentieth and 21st centuries.


On Loving White Boys

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How thrilling, to be granted a character that is explicitly an Asian American woman! But alas, as I discovered, the paranoid script is not a very good one.


Blessings for Atheists

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I had so often heard of how healthy it was to make a practice of “gratitude”—I assumed it would be like that. 


 

Symposium

Second Minds

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This fall, we decided to embark on a collaborative writing experiment loosely inspired by the practice of pair programming.


The Virtual Condition

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Maybe we really are in the Matrix? Maybe this is a test. At the edge of what can be emotionally or mentally accommodated, the simulation hypothesis seems less like a joke and more like a symptom, or the expression of a feeling that something important has become unhinged.


Working in Tech

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What is it like to work in tech every day? This winter we surveyed people who work in tech about their jobs, common misconceptions about their industry and what they think it is for.


Outsourcing Virtue

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There’s no need for good judgment, responsible governance, self-sacrifice or mutual care if there’s an easy technological fix to ostensibly solve the problem.


Silicon or Carbon?

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For now, The Network State is an exemplary salvo in a debate playing out in tech today over which type of world we want to live in: A world of Atoms, or of Bits?


Intelligent Life

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What would it be to approach the question “Can machines think?” in a different way?


 

Dialogue

Progress Studies

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“You ban the poets? You want to be like Sparta? Those are big issues.”


 

Survey

Working in Tech

By

What is it like to work in tech every day? This winter we surveyed people who work in tech about their jobs, common misconceptions about their industry and what they think it is for.


 

Correspondence

Among the Reality Entrepreneurs

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If you wanted to know what was really going on, you had to get on Urbit.


 

Reviews

Elizabeth Hardwick’s “I”

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A biographical critic and an autobiographical novelist, Hardwick nonetheless relished intricate mismatches between the life as experienced and the life as written.


Girls Online

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Even as girls purportedly lose on the internet, a girlish mode of expression and Goffmanian self-presentation have won out among swelling ranks of users—including many who are not themselves girls.