
Utopia & Dystopia: Online Capitalism
This is part of a #FridayFlashback series of rereleased essays. Here I return to part one of a review of The Twittering Machine, first published November 29 2019. We need something to long for, the better to devise grander escapologies. We need the ‘intercalary gush’ of Catholic poet Charles Péguy, a moment of rupture in our daily habits through which to escape not only the Twittering Machine but the unnecessary burden of misery that it successfully monetizes. When I was fir