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contemporaneity-150	Jagoda, Patrick	Network Ambivalence	2015	11	.pdf	application/pdf	4633	187	43	People may want to withdraw from a culture of publicized narcissism; combat their addictions to the high of instant gratification that comes with likes, upvotes, comments, and check-ins; minimize the loneliness, alienation, or envy associated with social comparison on such networks; eliminate the affective uncertainties associated with posts that arrive on one’s stream or wall according to an unknown logic of proprietary algorithms; challenge the threat of corporate surveillance that undermines any semblance of privacy; resist fantasies of political participation that alleviate guilt through low-touch interactions with questionable efficacy; and so on.13 Network form, in its role as our current cultural dominant, makes scarcely imaginable the possibility of an alternative or an outside uninflected by networks.	cache/contemporaneity-150.pdf	txt/contemporaneity-150.txt