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From this paper  by Barry Wellman, et al. The technological development of computer networks and the societal flourishing of social networ...

Notes on Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiberoptics , chapter one ( pdf ) Was excited to read...

From: "Anything But Heavy Metal": Symbolic Exclusion and Musical Dislikes" by Bethany Bryson, American Sociological Review,  ...

I took these notes when I read the book seven or eight years ago.  Bataille’s notion that humanity wants to act with no end in mind, to com...

This line of thought occurred to me while I was in the dentist's chair having my teeth scraped. Why do I worry so much about being cool?...

This is quoted in Coté and Pybus's article for Ephemera 7: The activation, both of productive cooperation and of the social relationsh...

This manifesto from Tiqqun, "Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl"makes a lot more sense to me if you replace ...