Archive - Molly Frances

My loneliness is killing me, and why the hell are we so avoidant of strangers? (It's not just me, right?)

Part personal narrative about loneliness, part brief reflection on the strange sociology of why we are so afraid to answer the door and smile at…

Aug 24, 2023 •

October 2021

Cancel culture sucks, but Big Tech sucks more

Fighting against the insanity of cancellation is an exercise in futility so long as the tech oligopoly reigns supreme as architects of our digital…

Oct 16, 2021 •

January 2021

On malleable boundaries and the cultish logic of neoliberal identitarianism

Neoliberal identitarianism may not be a formalized cult, but the enforcement of its doctrine through the accountability spectacle certainly is…

Jan 17, 2021 •

Instagram is not a community. It is an audience.

We must contend with the relational limitations of corporate advertising media, and recognize how its architecture rewards anti-social behavior like the…

Jan 16, 2021 •

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