Media technologies offer the promise of both eternity and oblivion, but we have a hard time telling the difference between the two.

What happens to your online selfhood when you die?

The sensibility of Gen Z is uncritical and anti-intellectual, assuming that everyone suffers from crippling anxiety and trauma, a sensitivity which any criticism might imperil.

Maybe information itself is more pernicious than the dis- or mis- varieties. The glut of facts can feel—in their sheer impenetrable volume—anxious-making, anomic, and numbing

Dos Passos’s epic trilogy still indelibly captures the United States in a moment of centrifugal chaos

Nixon long portrayed himself as a victim of the press. However, from the 1952 Checkers speech to his post-presidency PR offensives, Nixon proved himself an able manipulator of the media.

A conversation about Appalachia, environmentalism, and sound art.

An alternate reality is hiding in your tiny streaming box.