Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents

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Ullmann, E. (1997). Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents. City Lights Books.

City Lights Books, 1997. 189 pages.

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(noun) an intervening space

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the person being paid is just a blip

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blithely from one to the next

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Before I finally fell asleep, I remembered a co...

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with all the other boyfriends

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it can't just be the money

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just like some sort of commie

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Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
by Ellen Ullmann

[0] Space Is Numeric

[0] Space Is Numeric

[1] Transactions

[1] Transactions

[2] Sushi

[2] Sushi

[3] Real Estate

[3] Real Estate

[4] Software and Suburbia

[4] Software and Suburbia

[5] New, Old, and Middle Age

[5] New, Old, and Middle Age

[6] Virtuality

[6] Virtuality

[7] Money

[7] Money

[8] The Passionate Engineer

[8] The Passionate Engineer

[9] Driving

[9] Driving

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents by Ellen Ullmann

Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents
by Ellen Ullmann