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Orit Gat is a writer living in London. She is a contributing editor of The White Review.


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On Marriage, Netflix, and Other Things I Hate

Book Review

June 2023

Orit Gat

Book Review

June 2023

1. ‘It’s kind of crazy to shop at Target, watch Netflix, drive a Honda, and still have a husband.’   Marriage falls into a...

Book Review

July 2022

It’s Personal: Writing and Reading Through Grief

Orit Gat

Book Review

July 2022

1. A spill  I’m drinking coffee in bed and reading The Reactor. I feel so close to everything Nick...

Few book reviews open with amateur rap, but: ‘back in the day when new media was new,’ goes the first line of a song written and performed by Jaime Levy at famed music venue Webster Hall in New York in a 1998 Silicon Alley Talent Show The performers were web pioneers from the 90s — New York Magazine in 2000, in a stroke of 90s genius, called them Netheads — trying to raise money for a new web development fund Levy was one of the familiar figures on this scene: a punk-rock from California, she came to New York when she was 21 to study at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) and then made a name for herself as a digital publisher, initially distributing electronic magazines on floppy discs She went on to become the creative director of Word magazine, an online magazine launched at a time when there were less than a thousand websites on the internet, most of them of the personal ‘Hey! Welcome to my Web site’ category She also threw the wildest parties; many of her guests saw the web for the first time on Levy’s Macintosh II at drunken evenings in her East Village loft   Back in the day when new media was new, the energy and excitement about the early web was as feverish as the speculation and money it created Newly minted CEOs spent their dollars on parties where a new programme’s source code was projected on the wall and people stood in its shadow, drinking in honour of paper millionaires on both coasts of the United States Back then, there were still many people who saw the internet as a vision of many futures that could be, before Silicon Valley won Looking at how we got where we are now, two recent books, Claire Evans’s Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the

Contributor

August 2014

Orit Gat

Contributor

August 2014

Orit Gat is a writer living in London. She is a contributing editor of The White Review.

Essay

September 2020

Three Finals

Orit Gat

Essay

September 2020

1998   In the summer of 2006, at a bar off Odéon, a girl I didn’t know drew a...

Anna Wiener’s ‘Uncanny Valley’

Book Review

February 2020

Orit Gat

Book Review

February 2020

1. SF vs NY   Anna Wiener found herself in the right place at the right time. That is, if that was what she...
James Bridle’s ‘New Dark Age’

Book Review

October 2018

Orit Gat

Book Review

October 2018

Halfway through James Bridle’s foreboding, at times terrifying, but ultimately motivating account of our technological present, he recounts a scene from a magazine article...
Women and Technology: History is a Cautionary Tale

Book Review

April 2018

Orit Gat

Book Review

April 2018

Few book reviews open with amateur rap, but: ‘back in the day when new media was new,’ goes the first line of a song...
Scroll, Skim, Stare

feature

Issue No. 16

Orit Gat

feature

Issue No. 16

1.   This is an essay about contemporary art that includes no examples. It includes no examples because its subject – artists’ websites, their...
What Can an Art Magazine Be?

feature

Issue No. 10

Orit Gat

feature

Issue No. 10

What can an art magazine be? Today, as the publishing industry reassesses its role in the age of the internet, the pioneering art magazine Metronome provides...

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poetry

September 2012

Letter from a New City to an Old Friend

Cutter Streeby

poetry

September 2012

Letter from a New City to an Old Friend     [SEAside          Gra-                         –i.m. Ronny Burhop 1987-2010                                                                      ffiti]...

Interview

January 2015

Interview with Rodrigo Rey Rosa

Scott Esposito

Interview

January 2015

Instructions: Take the high modernist and early postmodernist experimentalism of Argentines Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Move...

poetry

June 2017

Austrian Murder Case

Phoebe Power

poetry

June 2017

At the Konditorei   Close, warm, and humming with the relaxed sounds of post- midday Kaffee-Kuchen. The  cakes are...

 

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