there's our catastrophe

Jun 30

toujoursgai replied to your post: concerns about book fetishisation aside, I am…

I’m really feeling these book posts even though I’m guilty of 1. reblogging a lot of book spams on this site and 2. buying a lot of books (but like you, i buy new releases because I have fines in all my libraries). I think the whole ebooks aren’t tangible things you can touch!!1one! debate is partly to do with a feeling of distress that the corporeal respect you might get from displaying your knowledge gets wiped out. A folder of files on your ereader just doesn’t satisfy that same fetish

totally! I have also seen a lot of people complaining that you can’t judge what other people are reading if they’re using an e-reader. mostly dudes complaining that they will never know if that wispy indie chick on the train is reading Murakami and might never meet their ~true love~

but there was also this big brouhaha in the mX (free commuter newspaper) the other day about how any middle-aged woman you see with an e-reader could be reading 50 shades of grey and you wouldn’t even know

the whole thing is so interesting because it’s reminiscent of the early modern panic around women reading novels, you know the one — because they’re private, unlike oral culture, so they could be reading any old thing.

May 20

this just in: incredibly wealthy elite institutions have feelings too

St Michael’s Grammar head of school Simon Gipson has denied the school has any plans to draw the curtain on the Astor Theatre as a working cinema, and has compared the social media campaign that has flared against the school in recent days to a case of cyber-bullying.

“To be condemned in the way that we have been, out of hand, is deeply hurtful, because it was based on a false premise,” Mr Gipson said.

“I spend a lot of time managing the fall-out from the misuse of social media with students, and most often it comes from misleading statements, mistruths that gather a force of their own. To me, there’s a parallel.”

the cyberbullying media phenomenon has eaten itself

May 8

May 6

“#how do you know she’s beautiful if you can’t even see her shoes #how do you know she’s beautiful if you haven’t even read her blog” POP FEMINIST PERBLOG (via novazembla)

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Apr 25

words to live by

yesterday in a toilet cubicle at a university I saw:

a “forever alone” face

a sherlock roleplay

a debate about same-sex marriage that included the phrase “disagree with OP, but…”

guys I’m the last person to be kneejerk anti-tech, you should hear me whinge about primitivism or the idea of “nature” or, like, thoreau… but let the internet be the internet and let toilet cubicles be toilet cubicles

youth of today I swear to god

Apr 19

septentrionalia:

it must be so

the internet, circa 1961

Apr 15

yrelectricsurgeissweet:

a shirt that says ‘fun, flirty and back in the game’

would wear

Apr 10

clipboardmouth:

lauranicus:

galosengen | octopusoracle:

if you think our economy is bad just be thankful you dont live in neopia

#this is some panem shit

#i’m gonna need to play a fuckton of meerca chase to afford food

ok but for real: the interesting thing about neopets is that it’s, like, this capitalist wonderland but you still need to digitally “queue” for the privilege of buying bread at inflated prices

there is an amazing economics thesis in neopets somewhere

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Apr 9

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there's our catastrophe

work is its own cure. you have to like it better than being loved. ⚑ ♀

this just in: incredibly wealthy elite institutions have feelings too

work is its own cure. you have to like it better than being loved.

⚑ ♀