Terms and Conditions Magazine

Terms and Conditions Magazine (TACM) is an Instagram hosted writing and visual blog circulating thoughts on material conditions as mediated by digital culture. By integrating the long form into the short form, TACM aims to push the limits of the architectural affordances of social media. The essays, which range from three to ten 1080x1080 slides, are contextualized by found image and video content integrated into the written works and posted individually.

So called rationalist thinker when Ford F-150
YOU ARE WHAT YOU CONSUME YOU ARE WHAT YOU CONSUME YOU ARE WHAT YOU CONSUME YOU ARE WHAT YOU CONSUME
It’s the end of the world and Reels wants us to be turned on in a sort of libidinal sense. Terms and Conditions returns with notes from the new @mike.pepi book Against Platforms: Surviving Digital Utopia and my distaste for a Reels algorithm t
Late election thoughts, brief discussion of the 4B movement, and questions about the future of government and social media in the wake of DOGE.
START THE STEAL, STAY IN LINE, STOP THE STEAL! It’s Election Day and while many of your have made your voting decisions, it’s important to know what stakes the guys who control our data and the flow of information have in our electoral po
Idiocracy (2006)
55 years ago today, UCLA sent its first host-to-host message to Stanford making it the (unofficial) birthday of the Internet! To celebrate I’m going forward with something that’s been a brain child of many forms, an Instagram blog-meme pa

Rabih Mroué’s Pixelated Revolution

Through the Front Camera: Renegotiating the terms of our digital narcissism

Presented at the 2024 Modern Culture and Media Graduate Colloquium at Brown University

Despite our recent acknowledgment of screen addiction as a public health emergency, we have yet to fully consider the stakes of building a digital persona. What if we reconsidered our digital lives not in terms of mental health but the mental itself? Using Sigmund Freud’s theories of primary and secondary narcissism as a framework, this work considers the stakes of personal technologies usage from the seemingly benign to the pressingly violent.