Shocks of technological thought at four in the morning (An Entry in the series, Wanderings of a writer in the digital age)

Kurt Vonnegut said that a writer who leaves technology out of their work is the same as when writers during the Victorian age left out sex.... When I was in my twenties I could write in 'the noise'. I still can but it's different. I make too many mistakes and half the time I can't… Continue reading Shocks of technological thought at four in the morning (An Entry in the series, Wanderings of a writer in the digital age)

It’s snowing in Russia: Brief thoughts on the absurd digital noise that is the Snowden debauchery.

The internet frenzy and constant chatter concerning this world-wide American manhunt is insane. I’m not going to write any poetics here. I’m going to try to figure out shortly why I feel like this. Nothing really appalling has happened but still the media would show this being on the same level as the Rosenberg episode.… Continue reading It’s snowing in Russia: Brief thoughts on the absurd digital noise that is the Snowden debauchery.