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As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.

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In theory, the maturation of the Internet should have killed off the desire for zines entirely.

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Producing zines can offer an unexpected respite from the scrutiny on the Internet, which can be as oppressive as it is liberating.

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The fact that I live in New York, a city that thrives on accessibility, might explain why I was slow to grasp the appeal of Alexa. Here we have bodegas on every corner, most open 24 hours, in case you need to pick up a roll of toilet paper or a bottle of hot sauce in the middle of the night.

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We are being conditioned, as a population, to never wait, to never delay our gratification, to accept thoughtless, constant consumption as the new norm. But how we think about consumption and willpower carry enormous implications for the environment and the culture of society as a whole.

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Thinking about Amazon's restraints - the company has never tried to introduce a social network or an email service, for example - you can understand something about the future Amazon seems to envision: A time when no screen is needed at all, just your voice.

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Artists' obsessions with technology are not new, but in the late aughts, the work tended to focus on the possibility of the medium, treating technology like a new tool rather than a sociopolitical framework.

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Artists have long urged cultural introspection by creating work that forces awareness of our current political and economic landscape.

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I live in Brooklyn and work in Manhattan, two of the most liberal places in the country.

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Social media is my portal into the rest of the world - my periscope into the communities next to my community, into how the rest of the world thinks and feels.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: Unknown

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