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The 'in-real-life' fetish

14 mins | Jul 19, 2017
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The digital universe has created an obsession with things that are supremely analog, like sepia tints, token typewriters and camping trips. Nathan Jurgenson, writing in The New Inquiry, argues that this fetishization of real-life is mistaken, the digital world is real-life now.

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