Marta Zarzycka examines the impact of ubiquitous, easy-to-use photo filters on our perception of reality.
Filtering Out: Instagram and the Dangerous Pull of Nostalgia

Marta Zarzycka examines the impact of ubiquitous, easy-to-use photo filters on our perception of reality.
Emma Goldberg examines the messy gender politics of household robots.
Peter Gadol discusses how he found a face in the cloud between social media's endless stream of photos of strangers.
Rennie McDougall on 2016 video game "Inside" from Arnt Jensen and Playdead studios, plus Zadie Smith, Roland Barthes, and Vladimir Nabokov.
Rennie McDougall reviews the video game BioShock on its 10-year anniversary.
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