I'm going to take a few days to post articles that I read a long time ago and have been sitting in my "longreads to post" folder for way too long. Given the growing number of ways that life is now lived online, stories like this one shouldn't be that surprising. But it can always be jarring to read about a specific individual and in this case, how his life unfolded online. Ignore overarching tropes about how the internet makes us more or less isolated. As with most things in life, it is much more complicated as the internet can mediate all sorts of interactions that can connect, disconnect, inspire, despair, etc.
"BLACK METAL TROY or, How to Drink Online" by Robert Moor
Published in the Brooklyn Rail, April 2011
Eric
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