Virginia Heffernan

Virginia Heffernan

Brooklyn, New York, United States
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MAGIC AND LOSS: THE INTERNET AS ART, Simon & Schuster

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    WIRED

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    New York City - San Francisco

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    New York City

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    Harvard University

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    English & American Literature & Language, Ph.D.

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    Activities and Societies: Virginia Literary Review

    Philosophy and English

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  • Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art

    Simon & Schuster

    “Heffernan is a new species of wizard, able to perform literary magic upon supersonic technology. Her superpower is to remove the technology from technology, leaving the essential art. You might get an epiphany, like I did, of what a masterpiece this internet thing is. Heffernan has the cure for the small thinking that everyday hardware often produces. She generates marvelous insights at the speed of light, warmed up by her well-worn classical soul. It's a joy and revelation to be under her…

    “Heffernan is a new species of wizard, able to perform literary magic upon supersonic technology. Her superpower is to remove the technology from technology, leaving the essential art. You might get an epiphany, like I did, of what a masterpiece this internet thing is. Heffernan has the cure for the small thinking that everyday hardware often produces. She generates marvelous insights at the speed of light, warmed up by her well-worn classical soul. It's a joy and revelation to be under her spell.”—Kevin Kelly, author of What Technology Wants and co-founder of Wired

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  • The Underminer

    Bloomsbury

    Comic novel, written with Mike Albo, about a creepy successful frenemy who is fake nice and wrecks your life.

    Other authors
    • Mike Albo
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  • columns on television and digital/pop culture

    The New York Times

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  • The Medium

    The New York Times Magazine

    Weekly column about digital culture.

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  • French, some German

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