The Iowa caucus affair last night was a masterclass in hyperreality. The relevant facts are as follows. It was the long-anticipated kickoff to the primary season in an ever-expanding election cycle that now seems more or less co-terminous with the president’s four-year term. Iowa has an outsized place in this process, as it traditionally holds the first-in-the-nation caucus. Last night, under intense media scrutiny and pressure for immediate results, a complex system buckled, a new app made … [Read more...]
L. M. Sacasas reads, thinks, writes, and talks about technology, usually in that order. His writing appears on his blog, The Convivial Society. The best 100 posts from his previous blog have been collected in an e-book, The Frailest Thing: Ten Years of Thinking About the Meaning of Technology