Mark O'Connell
Columnist at Irish Times
Writer of A Thread of Violence (2023), Notes from an Apocalypse (2020), To Be a Machine (2017) Agent: [email protected] (UK); [email protected] (US)
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark O'Connell
Although it has become routine to encounter the talking points of the extreme right emanating from the Trump White House, the scene that emerged from the South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit this week was still bracing.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark O'Connell
Last Monday, at about 8am, part of a terrace of Victorian cottages along the Grand Canal in Dublin 6 – properties which have been listed on Dublin City Council’s Derelict Sites Register for just under two years, but which had for decades previously been falling into dilapidation – collapsed into the street.
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4 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark O'Connell
In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine in 1996, on the publication of his novel Infinite Jest, the late writer David Foster Wallace voiced some ideas about technology that seem increasingly prescient with every year that passes.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark O'Connell
One of the most powerful scenes in The Settlers,Louis Theroux’s brilliant new documentary about the Israeli settler movement, comes in the final minutes of the film, which was broadcast earlier this week on BBC Two. Theroux and his small crew are at a festival at Evyatar, one of the numerous settlements in the Palestinian West Bank deemed illegal under international law. He is there to speak with one of the festival’s speakers, Daniella Weiss, leader of the extreme right Nachala settler movement.
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1 month ago |
irishtimes.com | Mark O'Connell
During an interview published earlier this month on the website Vox, the American technologist and writer Jaron Lanier came out with one of the more unsettling remarks I’ve encountered recently. Lanier is one of the more interesting of Silicon Valley’s in-house intellectuals. He was an early developer of virtual reality technologies in the 1980s, and is often credited (and credits himself) with coining the term to describe that technology.
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