Anna Wiener
Goodreads Author
Member Since
May 2018
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Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
12 editions
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2020
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California
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6 editions
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2022
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n+1 Issue 25: Slow Burn
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Brooklyn! The Ultimate Guide to New York's Most Happening Borough
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2 editions
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1999
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Close to the Machine (25th Anniversary Edition): Technophilia and Its Discontents
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Vale da estranheza: Fascínio e desilusão na meca da tecnologia
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“Sometimes I would worry about my internet habits and force myself awy from the computer, to read a magazine or book. Contemporary literature offered no respite: I would find the prose cluttered with data points, tenuous historical connections, detail so finely tuned it could have only been extracted from a feverish night of search-engine queries. Aphorisms were in; authors were wired. I would pick up books that had been heavily documented on social media, only to find that the books themselves had a curatorial affect: beautiful descriptions of little substance, arranged in elegant vignettes—gestural text, the equivalent of a rumpled linen bedsheet or a bunch of dahlias placed just so. Oh, I would think, turning the page. This author is addicted to the internet, too.”
― Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
― Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
“Being the only woman on a nontechnical team, providing customer support to software developers, was like immersion therapy for internalized misogyny. I liked men—I had a brother. I had a boyfriend. But men were everywhere: the customers, my teammates, my boss, his boss. I was always fixing things for them, tiptoeing around their vanities, cheering them up. Affirming, dodging, confiding, collaborating. Advocating for their career advancement; ordering them pizza. My job had placed me, a self-identified feminist, in a position of ceaseless, professionalized deference to the male ego.”
― Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
― Uncanny Valley: A Memoir
“The internet was a collective howl, an outlet for everyone to prove that they mattered.”
― Uncanny Valley
― Uncanny Valley
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