F&F Fiction: Perfection
A dawning realisation settles as I finish reading Vincent Latronico’s Perfection (2025). The novel’s symbiotic protagonists are an
Fifteenth #20: On algorithmically aggravated addiction, with Dr. Romy Gad el Rab
10:20am, and I have already picked up my phone 16 times. I have been awake four hours and have
First #20: Logging Off
⚠️ This review is about a book that discusses self-harm and suicide.
We have passed the point at which our
Fifteenth #19: On water
London is a city of forgotten streams and lost rivers; of sedimented layers encasing ancient waterways that have long since
First # 19: Natural Connection
Technology is manufactured — chemically intensive and extractive processes are deployed to transform raw materials into sophisticated digital devices. Technology demands
Fifteenth #18: On the slopcore aesthetic
There is a strange glaze mediating your perception of the synthetic images in your feed. At first glance, you sense
First #18: Enshittification
If you are steeped in internet culture, this is a word that you might have encountered sometime in the last
Fifteenth #17: On unlearning
Why do we do research? This might seem like an insultingly simple question, yet perhaps we have never paused to
First #17: Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create
Research for People Who Think They Would Rather Create is a slender manual written by Dirk Vis — a Dutch lecturer
Fifteenth #16: On the Men (and sometimes Women) Who Corrupted Hadleyburg
In 1899, Mark Twain published the short story The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg. Written towards the end of his two-
