Real Life

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Real Life is a magazine about living with technology. The emphasis is more on living. We publish one piece a day—essays, features, uncategorizable—four or five days a week. We launched with funding from Snapchat, but we operate with editorial independence and without ads.

Real Life

Entries

  • Life’s a Glitch

    The non-apocalypse of Y2K obscures the lessons it has for the present

  • Who Can It Be Now

    On social platforms, the "fluid self" is not a rejection of personal branding but another manifestation of it

  • Colony Collapse

    God games like Civilization and The Sims offer a fantasy of control based on miniaturization, giving us little ant hi...

  • Dreaming in Color

    Satoshi Kon's movies, which paralleled the rise of social media, explore the surreal meeting of interiority and publi...

  • Hold the Line

    Media technology is not a modern antidote to older, vernacular modes of information transmission. Folklore instead th...