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Granta 167: Extraction Online
You Are the Product
‘The anglophone world, we have to infer, has run out of words for its own feelings.’
Daisy Hildyard on the wisdom of scarecrows.
You Are the Product
‘What is the read receipt for?’
Lillian Fishman on texting, power and the ethics of leaving a friend on read.
You Are the Product
‘Like pretty much everyone who uses the internet, I have seen many terrible things that I did not search for and that I cannot unsee.’
Rosanna McLaughlin on what the internet thinks she wants.
You Are the Product
‘I have a pathological addiction to the internet, which I indulge with the excuse of making art. It rarely translates to anything good and mostly leaves me overstimulated and afraid.’
Paul Dalla Rosa on excess and the internet.
Two Poems
‘rumors of bees on speedwell, / no oxidative stress just / effortless pollination’
Two poems by Sylvia Legris.
George Prochnik
George Prochnik was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in general non-fiction in 2021. He has written for publications such as the New Yorker and the LA Review of Books, and is the editor-at-large for Cabinet magazine. 'Talk America' is an edited excerpt from I Dream with Open Eyes, forthcoming from Counterpoint Press. His books with Granta include Stranger in a Strange Land: Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem, which was shortlisted for the Wingate Prize and was a New York Times 'Editor's Choice'.
More about the author →Eyal Weizman
Eyal Weizman is a British Israeli architect. He is the founder and director of Forensic Architecture, general secretary of Forensis e. V., and professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. His books include Hollow Land, Investigative Aesthetics, The Roundabout Revolutions, The Conflict Shoreline and Forensic Architecture.
Photograph © David Ausserhofer / Robert Bosch Academy
Emily Dische-Becker
Emily Dische-Becker is a writer, organiser and curator, as well as a researcher for Forensis/Forensic Architecture, living in Berlin. She is on the steering committee of the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism and the Germany director of Diaspora Alliance. She was an adviser for public programmes at Documenta fifteen and recently co-organised an international conference entitled ‘Hijacking Memory:The Holocaust and the New Right’ in Berlin.
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