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Maybe Your Solitude Isn’t Really About You
I FIND MYSELF annoyed by lamentations on the loss of solitude that I find on the Internet: claims that our dependence on social media, and the Internet…
Jan 15
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Beatrice Marovich
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The Present is Thicker Than Ever
I KNOW THAT for most people the new year is a time of resolution and forward momentum, but for me it’s always a time of recollection.
Dec 31, 2025
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Beatrice Marovich
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Chatbot Confessionals
AI CHATBOTS felt like an existential issue, to me, almost as soon as they were unleashed upon the public in 2022.
Dec 17, 2025
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Beatrice Marovich
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The Internet Priests of Ordinary Life
RECENTLY, IN CLASS, I was trying to explain to my college students what a trance state is.
Dec 10, 2025
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Beatrice Marovich
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Ghosts of the Data Boom
WHEN I WAS A KID growing up in a college town in southern Michigan, Indiana was nothing more to me than a great big cornfield.
Dec 3, 2025
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Beatrice Marovich
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How AI Changed My Semester
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Does the Universe Love You?
May 25, 2024
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Is America in 2025 What Disenchantment Looks Like?
Mar 15, 2025
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It’s a (Theological) Wild West Out There
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What if Gratitude Isn’t Actually Good for You?
I have nothing against gratitude, and certainly nothing against the people who practice it. I sometimes just hate what we’ve done with it.
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Rosalía's New Album is Femme Cath
The cover of Rosalía’s new album “Lux” is adorned with what looks like a nun in a straight jacket.
Nov 12, 2025
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If You're Going to Tell a Big Story About Technology, Make it Humane
The algorithm knew I was hungry for a good tech resistance narrative
Oct 29, 2025
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It’s a (Theological) Wild West Out There
And I’m feeling like Calamity Jane
Oct 17, 2025
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The Heavy Weight of Suspicion
Public life and private fear
Sep 17, 2025
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The Cuteness Trap: Do Animals Make AI Disarming?
I FOUND ITALIAN BRAINROT not because it emerged magically in my TikTok feed, as many strange things do, but because I went looking for it.
Sep 3, 2025
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Beatrice Marovich
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Unknowing is a Technology for the Digital World
Surviving the new unrealities
Aug 20, 2025
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Friction is Therapeutic
Against easiness
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Watching People Read (Interiority After Mystery I)
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