A Field Guide to Antimemetics
On Nadia Asparouhova’s book about ideas engineered to disappear, and why some of the most consequential ideas resist spreading.
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You Don’t Get to Choose
The consumer doesn’t control the means of production. The technology arrives whether anyone votes for it or not. After Ellul.
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The Phones Aren’t Doing It to You
Envy, narcissism, loneliness: things tech amplifies, not creates. Why the fentanyl analogy for social media is absurd.
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Software Isn’t Free
The largest public-goods experiment in history, paid for by ads, resented most by the people who benefit most.
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Rational Optimism Is Always the Way Out
Technology has always run on one belief: that problems can be solved and progress is possible.
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