
Internet

Offering open access to essays, lectures, and performances by contemporary artists and scholars during the pandemic.

Stagg’s essays, stories, and profiles on art and fashion speak to the new spaces and meanings created by the Internet.
The internet does a better job of documenting / the way we feel when something soft, especially / a mammal, is very cute, than poetry does.

Years ago, desperate to find a babysitter in a short period of time, I joined two local parents’ groups on the web and remained subscribed to them long after my situation had been resolved.

Eduardo Williams’s debut feature takes us around the world on an ethnographic tour of labor, leisure, and logins.

Tommy Pico’s IRL searches the catacombs of history and hashtags of today to create what can’t be salvaged.

“The Internet is a predatory network that is, on one side, potentially a very coercive tool of totalitarian power and, on the other side, a tool that will increasingly be used to allocate rights and privileges through commercial means. Can we envision a different kind of network?”
Around this time I became a frequent visitor to a sex-ad bulletin board. Real-life meetups were the focal point.
