Tag: history
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Vilém Flusser’s project against death
War Office, 4 February 2026, © 2026 Bobby Crosby This year will mark the 35th anniversary since the death of the Prague-born philosopher and media theorist Vilém Flusser, whom I quoted in a previous essay last summer. It is perhaps cliché today to dig up pre-internet media theorists and watch them seemingly predict Instagram (as…
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Social media companies trade child wellbeing for profit
On reading a letter published in the Powys County Times (the local paper for the county I grew up in) I was so incensed by a fellow reader’s attack on attempts to regulate social media in the UK that I wrote a riposte, which was published a few weeks later. The website headline chosen by…
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