{"id":9840,"date":"2016-08-22T20:28:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T00:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=9840"},"modified":"2017-12-12T10:33:54","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T14:33:54","slug":"episode-182-virginia-heffernan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-182-virginia-heffernan","title":{"rendered":"Episode 182 – Virginia Heffernan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show #182: Virginia Heffernan<\/a><\/p>\n

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“It’s very, very weird to do something along with three billion other people.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"magic-and-loss-9781439191705_hr\"<\/a>Cultural critic Virginia Heffernan<\/a> joins the show to talk about her new book, Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art<\/a>\"\" (Simon & Schuster)! We talk about what’s behind the screen, why the internet is bigger than the Industrial Revolution, her first experience online in 1979, what it’s like to be in a piece of performance art with half the world’s population, her crushing defeat at meeting Joan Didion, why she’s nostalgic for landline phones, the motive motive of Pokemon Go, asking The New York Times<\/em> to host a shred-guitar competition, and why there’s value in Reading The Comments! Give it a listen!<\/a> And buy Magic and Loss<\/a>\"\"!<\/p>\n

“The Magic is the part of the internet that is delightful, that moves you to a new space, that is the Mystery of existence. The Loss is that sick feeling you have when you’ve been online all the time.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n