Notebooks

Internet and Us

Morton, B. (2019, January 8). Virginia Woolf? Snob! Richard Wright? Sexist! Dostoyevsky? Anti-Semite! The New York Times.
Should we pay heed to creations by imperfect human beings? Morton offers a nuanced perspective.
Tolentino, J. (2019). The I in the Internet. Trick mirror: Reflections on self-delusion (First edition). Random House. (Free online link to this essay)
On the internet, a highly functional person is one who can promise everything to an indefinitely increasing audience at all times.
A sharp essay. Read it.