Close-reading the reruns with Phoebe Maltz Bovy

A perfect fit

Online dating, online shopping

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Phoebe Maltz Bovy
Mar 08, 2024
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What does it mean for a person—a society—to be too online? The aspect of this that interests me most is, I think, the way a new norm of online-ness renders offline life not just less appealing to many but outright impossible.

In dating, this manifests itself as a new norm, wherein it is so terribly fraught and problematic to attempt to initiate anything …

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