Uniform-ity
Technology, in many ways, is making us the same. “Nosedive”, a Black Mirror episode, illustrates this fact to us in subtle ways. In this futuristic show, people dress in only… Read More
Category: Group C
White Faces Black Masks
In this article, Lauren Michele Jackson discusses two distinct but clearly related issues with racial identity on the internet. The first issue, which she characterizes as the more “innocuous” of the two, is the idea of appropriation. She argues, compellingly, that the use of reaction GIFs depicting African Americans by non-African Americans decontextualizes Black culture […]
Value
M.T Anderson’s critique of a capitalistic society is made most effectively when Violet is denied care by FeedTech. The novel is set in some kind of libertarian dreamscape, where consumerism is the highest religion in the land and corporations have free reign to build, destroy, or indoctrinate as they see fit. Humans have no intrinsic […]
Keeping Up With Consumerism
Towards the end of the novel, Titus feels as though his upcar isn’t the kind his friends rode in, and questions why that is. He moves on to describe the sentiment as “tiring,” moving on to say, “I kept buying these things to be cool, but cool was always flying just ahead of me, and […]
Distorted Perspectives
T. Anderson leaves us readers with a chilling vision of the future in the final part of Feed, captured by Violet’s harrowing death and leaving our only hope for humanity… Read More
Death and Zombies in the Digital Age
The ending of M. T. Anderson’s Feed depicts the tragic death of young Violet, as her malfunctioning “feed” slowly loses the ability to keep her body functioning. This ending is very emotional as we see a young girl trying to make the most of her time left, as well as Titus struggle to deal with the […]
Consumerism: Tyranny of the Majority?
In the tragic ending of Feed, Violet’s father revealed that the late installation of Violet’s feed device led to the eventual failure of her brain functions. Both of Violet’s parents never had feed, and planned to let Violet choose when she was old enough to understand and make her own decision. However, after a frustrating […]
Impending Doom Versus Consumerism in Feed and Real Life
Even when Titus and his friends aren’t “going mal,” they seem to be numbing their senses in another way – consumerism. Feed highlights the almost anesthetizing effects of consumption rather explicitly when Titus orders the same pair of pants over and over again after the trauma of witnessing Violet on her death bed. And of course, …
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A Convenient Detriment
In Feed by MT Anderson, there are an overwhelming amount of distractions that originate from the feed. Whether it is the constant advertisements or the new fashion trends or current… Read More
Why Would You Watch Someone Play Videogames?
Twitch.tv is hugely popular website for live-streaming video games, and now more. While there are, according to Twitch, 15 million daily active viewers, many don’t understand why anyone would want to watch someone play a game that they could simply play themselves. Essential to this phenomenon is remediation, a term coined by Jay David Bolter […]