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On "In Praise of Shadows"

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On "In Praise of Shadows"

Welcome to my personal newsletter. I’m publishing weekly essays on digital technology and culture, in the run-up to my January 2024 book FILTERWORLD: How Algorithms Flattened Culture. Subscribe or read the archive here. Here’s a big experiment: The first audio project that I’m publishing on my own! It’s kind of a “podcast” but also just for fun. I recorded a conversation with my friend Nate Gallant, a scholar and translator of Japanese (you can subscribe to his nascent Substack here), about one of my favorite essays of all time: Junichiro Tanizaki’s 1933 “In Praise of Shadows.” (Psst you…

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