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Leigh Alexander

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    2016: The Year the Internet Became RealImagine being rid of the internet. Doesn’t some part of you knot up with rash, intimate desire?
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    Inside the Strange World of Million-View ‘Surprise Egg’ YouTube VideosFor the past several weeks I have been captivated by videos of adults opening Kinder eggs.
  3. Good Morning, User! Welcome to the New Intimacy EconomyWe often imagine the inevitable future tech dystopia will be cold, populations marching under the eye of sterile robot overlords, our speech monitored and scrubbed of sentiment and intonation. Increasingly, though, it seems like we’re hurtling toward the opposite.