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This is the audio edition of Real Life, a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living.... more
FAQs about Real Life: Audio Edition:How many episodes does Real Life: Audio Edition have?The podcast currently has 173 episodes available.
April 04, 2022143 - Syllabus for the Internet: W.G. Sebald by Colin DickeyWhile nominally a fiction writer, W.G. Sebald's work remains theoretically prescient. Long before social media, he understood the suspicious anxiety inherent to learning about the world over social media. His works embrace this unease, accepting the unreliability of all individual sources, but also the obligation to make sense of them. Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag....more30minPlay
April 01, 2022142 - Found Images by Rob HorningImages were once too scarce to be deployed rhetorically; they seemed to be more documentary by default. Now communicating continually with images is common, which generates a nostalgia for when images could speak something other than what the photographer meant to say. Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag....more15minPlay
March 28, 2022141 - Careless Whispers by Katherine Alejandra Cross and Anastasia SchaadhardtMuch concern has been raised around teens spreading misinformation on TikTok. But fear, and a sense of abandonment by the authorities, can drive compulsive behavior online. Young people — facing just as many threats as adults, but with less power to protect themselves — are just as susceptible to this as their elders. Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag....more15minPlay
March 22, 2022140 - Seeing Without Looking by M. R. SauterSidewalk Toronto is dead, but its legacy is instructive. It shows that surveillance systems aren't so much documenting as producing a desired reality — and that erasing these images, rather than increasing privacy, only makes that constructed reality harder to audit. Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag....more21minPlay
March 21, 2022139 - Money-Go-Round by Ameera KawashProponents of "Web3" often claim that their crypto-based platforms will eliminate some of the problems associated with conventional social media. It will replace big tech companies with decentralized systems, replace the drive for virality with a commitment to community. But Web3 remains entirely dependent on existing platforms to attract users, and relies on the same dubious incentives to build hype. Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag....more17minPlay
March 14, 2022138 - Nostalgia for Nostalgia by Alexandra Fiorentino-SwintonWatching old movies reveals a chasm between seemingly once-possible "off-grid" experiences and the continuous connectivity that persists today, arching between childhood and later stages of life. The way our timelines excavate our own pasts for us not only makes remembering from a distance less possible — no longer are we narrators remembering a singular bygone era — but contemporary storytelling too is morphing away from the "closed chapter" adventure into narratives that take this sustained connectivity into account. Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag....more16minPlay
March 12, 2022137 - Inventing the Shipwreck by Zachary LoebConversations about technology tend to be dominated by an optimistic faith in technological progress. There is endless encouragement to think about all of the exciting benefits of new technology, but significantly less attention paid to the ways things might go spectacularly wrong. That's where Paul Virilio comes in. Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag....more23minPlay
March 11, 2022136 - Make a Wish by Aimee WallestonThose who view “real life” as distinct from images might prefer to believe that undocumented experience is the “truth.” They might suggest that experiences contrived to produce photogenic images are false, an “as-if” experience, LARPing in the pejorative sense. But the life they are describing — a way of being in the world that is untouched by performativity and projection — is the biggest LARP of all. Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag....more24minPlay
March 10, 2022135 - The Great Offline by Lauren ColleeThe concept of “the offline" is deeply enmeshed with that of "wilderness." Both concepts offer a fantastical escape from the hazards of a globalized world. But in setting up a binary between the corrupted, digital self, and the pure, disconnected self, they both perpetuate a hazardous logic. Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag....more25minPlay
March 01, 2022134 - White Balance by Leo KimBeauty filters like "Belle" are praised for providing better representation. But the underlying technologies are historically steeped in bias, which raises the question: Is this sort of representation desirable in the first place? Read more essays on living with technology at https://reallifemag.com and follow us on Twitter @_reallifemag....more22minPlay
FAQs about Real Life: Audio Edition:How many episodes does Real Life: Audio Edition have?The podcast currently has 173 episodes available.