Justin EH Smith
Geordie Williamson reviews 'The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A history, a philosophy, a warning' by Justin E.H. Smith
Geordie Williamson
Saturday, 25 June 2022
A dubious privilege of belonging to Generation X is that your life straddles the period during which the internet went from being science fiction to settled fact of life. Take, for example, Justin Smith, the American-born, University of Paris-based historian of philosophy and science, a professor who turns fifty this year. He started out on dial-up message boards in the 1980s, saw his first HTML web page in the 1990s, and now maintains a well-regarded Substack newsletter, where, in between meditations on the historical ontology of depression and the metaphysics of onomastics, he writes with a subtle eye regarding online culture in all its manifestations.
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Published in
July 2022, no. 444