Cher Tan — Kill Your Darlings

Cher Tan

Cher Tan is a critic and narrative non-fiction writer based in Naarm/Melbourne, via Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide and Singapore. Winner of the 2019 KYD New Critic Award, her writing focuses on technology, politics, identity and culture, with previous work in KYD, Meanjin, The Lifted Brow, Runway, Westerly, Overland, and Swampland, among others. @mxcreant

Culture

Demanding Convenience: The False Promise of the On-Demand Economy

Culture

Museum of the Self: Authenticity and the Social Photo

Culture

So Much This: The Sameness of Internet Culture

Books & Publishing

Idle Minds: Jenny Odell’s ‘How To Do Nothing’

Essays

Recurring Amnesia: On Memory and the Internet

Culture

Worlds Within Worlds

Commentary

Unfaithful to their Origins

Politics & Society

Crafted nostalgia: The romanticisation of a hand-made economy

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