The Best Things We Read in 2015 – GAWKER

The Best Things We Read in 2015 – GAWKER

From Gawker, December 30th, 2015 by Gawker Staff: “How to Win Tinder” by Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser at The New Inquiry What, exactly, is Tinder? In their essay about the dominant mobile dating app, Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser explore the values, pitfalls, and invisible...
Now Netflix Is All Thumbs

Now Netflix Is All Thumbs

From The New York Times, March 31, 2017 by Tom Vanderbilt: “The Netflix move seems another example of what Alicia Eler and Eve Peyser, in an essay in The New Inquiry, call “the tinderization of feeling.” The dating app Tinder, they argue, “is a metaphor for...
The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of @SoSadToday

From The New Yorker, March 24, 2016, by Haley Mlotek: “The year before, the artists Alicia Eler and Kate Durbin had made a similar argument in identifying the “Teen-Girl Tumblr Aesthetic,” and Lindsay Zoladz, writing for Pitchfork, identified Lana del Rey as a...