David Auerbach
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The Binding of Isaac and the Binding of Symbols
In The Stupidity of Computers, I discussed how computers require rigidly defined ontologies, which are then enforced on us. What happens in the collision between slippery life and a fixed ontology? Here is a case ...
A Retrospective of the Work of Christiane Paul: “Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools”
Here I present a tribute to the work of Christiane Paul currently on display in the Whitney Museum in her exhibit “Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools.”
Rod Humble and the Marriage: Not Labels, Not Pointers, but Live Fragments
A few years ago, Rod Humble wrote a short, abstract game called The Marriage. The action consists of trying to get two squares not to shrink or fade out while circles drift around them. You ...
Cultural Illogic: David Golumbia and The Cultural Logic of Computation
David Golumbia does not like computers. Toward the end of The Cultural Logic of Computation, after lumping computers and the atom bomb into a single “Pandora’s Box” of doom, he observes: The Germans relied on ...
Franzen Again
The New York Times wouldn’t print Birdwatching is an Alternative to Love, but they did print a shorter response to Jonathan Franzen’s op-ed bemoaning the loss of love and pain in the modern world of gadgets: Technology and ...
Birdwatching Provides an Alternative to Love (or, The Question Concerning Ornithology)
This essay is adapted from a commencement speech Jonathan Franzen delivered on May 21 at Kenyon College. A couple of weeks ago, I started watching loggerhead shrikes instead of Eurasian wigeons. Needless to say, I ...
Profiles in Type L: Some Engineer at Microsoft
(Original typology in Battle Lines: Type L are the free-market technocrats and Type C are the conservative old boys in American society. Once more, I don’t identify with either of them.) The always-intriguing corporate-insider blog Mini-Microsoft is ...
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