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Deb Schwartz has edited and written for multiple glossy magazines. Currently a tutor with the Bard Prison Initiative, she recently completed a novel about a butch bromance set in early 90s New York. The fantasy of smartphones and Apple goods generally is that via daily intercourse with them, our lives will come to mirror the devices themselves: their beauty and efficiency, their futuristic/Zen-organic/baby-fascist “simplicity.” These enticingly touchable devices and their attendant apps and social media platforms dangle a promise, endlessly renewed by updates and upgrades, of a life very different from the messy, uncertain, contingency-filled one we currently inhabit; a life more akin to the enticingly empty infinity pool tapering off against the backdrop of the Caribbean used to advertise all things up-market. In other words, a life that is clean, bright, cool, and deathless. Each time we pick up these devices—yes, still and always, newness hovers behind the screen—we are filled with

How Facebook Is Making Us Creepy, Desperate, and a Tiny Bit Undead Another reason to hate Facebook: It’s turning your friends into zombies The Archipelago 9 min read · Jul 1, 2014 -- 2 Listen Share Deb Schwartz has edited and written for multiple glossy magazines. Currently a tutor with the Bard Prison Initiative, she recently completed a novel about a butch bromance set in early 90s New York. The fantasy of smartphones and Apple goods generally is that via daily intercourse with them, our lives will come to mirror the devices themselves: their beauty and efficiency, their futuristic/Zen-organ

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