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David/Denise, as seen on MTV's Catfish

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In a March 2023 episode of Catfish, host Nev Schulman traveled to Pennsylvania to help a woman named June finally meet David, her on-again, off-again Internet boyfriend of 20 years.

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Woke 2

One of my running under-theorized theories (that, naturally, I still psychotically want “credit” for calling, whatever credit means, I think in my head it’s being invited to conferences or invited to expand on whatever idea in publications...

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Understanding Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s Murder Through the Lens of the Wendigo

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Political Pornography

the disembodied sexuality of politics in our aegosexual age

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  • Katherine Dee

    Internet ethnographer. I want to talk to you if you grew up with unrestricted access to the Internet. Tech correspondent at The Spectator. Staff Critic at Tablet. Bylines in The Dispatch, WSJ, The New York Times, and Politico. Accepting commissions.

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    drunk on the milk of paradise * child of the Aten

  • Clinton Ignatov

    Live in Ottawa, study McLuhan. concernednetizen.com

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    Globalist, elitist analysis.

  • Andrey Mir

    Author: The Digital Reversal. || The Viral Inquisitor. || Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror. || Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. || Human as media. // I study media and everything.

  • Celeste

    Writer & witch. Tales from beyond the mirror & musings on the mystical.

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