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The Reaction Economy

The LRB Podcast

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Instagram Has Had an Extraordinary Effect on Public Space

I'm pretty sure from observing sort of compulsive Instagramers. I mean, there is an expectation of a reaction. It's like if you're the only person in the WhatsApp group who hasn't put us, put a reaction emoji on someone's face. So clearly it would have been something to do with getting a particular kind of photograph that was going to garner an optimal reaction of some kind. As for Twitter, one of the things where you start to see certain things and almost start to, you know, like without even consciously trying or deciding to think of what would be the punchy, concise, smart ass way of expressing that kind of thing. And by this point, I had

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