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Book review: 'The Disconnect' by Roisin Kiberd theiet.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theiet.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Every so often, I’ll notice references to VNS Matrix in writing today, often alongside Donna Haraway’s 1985
Cyborg Manifesto (I see Sadie Plant mentioned less often, though she’s every bit as relevant; her 1997 book
Zeros + Ones unearthed a complex historical connection between women and machines). Part of why I think these ideas on gender and technology continue to interest us is that the future they envisioned hasn’t happened yet. Writing plays an interesting role in this issue; Haraway explicitly framed ‘cyborg writing’ as charting a path forward, saying that it’s “about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other.”
Extract: Roisin Kiberd on how Facebook helped change the internet - and our lives
Writer Roisin Kiberd looks at the world of the internet – and the effect it has on our lives – in her new essay collection, The Disconnect. Here, she takes us through her early days online. By Roisin Kiberd Wednesday 10 Mar 2021, 7:00 PM Mar 10th 2021, 7:00 PM 9,405 Views 4 Comments Roisin Kiberd
IN JANUARY 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a 19-year-old student and future Harvard dropout, registered thefacebook.com for $35 and launched the site from his college dorm room. By the end of that month, three-quarters of the student body checked in on it every day.
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We re delighted to present an extract from
The Disconnect - A Personal Journey Through the Internet, the debut collection of essays from Roisin Kiberd, published by Serpent s Tail.
We all live online now: the line between the internet and IRL has become porous to the point of being meaningless.
Roisin Kiberd knows this better than anyone. She has worked for tech startups and as the online voice of a cheese brand; she s witnessed the bloated excesses of tech conferences and explored the strangest communities on the web. She has traced the ripples these hidden worlds have sent through our culture and politics, and experienced the disorienting effects on her own life.