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MARK DERY, author and cultural critic: I find the fetishization of the wisdom of crowds fascinating. It has a whiff of '90s cyberhype about it. I'm fascinated by the way in which it contrasts with individual subjectivity. A lot of technologies, such as Flickr, blogging, the iPod, seem to turn the psyche inside out, to extrude the private self into the public sphere. You have people walking down the street listening to iPods, seemingly oblivious to the world, singing. More and more, we're alone in public...
DERY: I'm fascinated by this idea that JetBlue could be transformative. Weren't we supposed to be celebrating the death of geography right about now? According to the last wave of techno-hype, in the newtopian '90s, we were supposed to be swirling clouds of data bits, teleporting from one point to another through fiber-optic cables...
...bare stage with a lone microphone, Gordon sprinkles his arguments with epigrams and political puns—a skill he says he picked up while earning his master’s degree in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government in the early ’90s...
Forming in the late ’90s, the fearsome twosome garnered considerable praise and recognition with their 2001 debut album, “Ride the Skies,” and have been rumbling along ever since, crushing anything in their...
...Ever since his first releases in the early ’90s, fans have admired the Mountain Goats for the sincerity that each song exudes, through lone permanent member Darnielle’s incisively concrete, yet erudite lyrics. This effect is multiplied by the raw sound of his unmediated recording techniques. As late as 2002’s “All Hail West Texas,” Darnielle recorded his albums on a boom box, and some of his early works remain available exclusively on audiocassette...