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' So begins Mary Gaitskill's stunning book-length essay
but exiled himself to Paris at twenty as a rebellion against his upbringing
This all culminates in what Koopman calls the "informational person" and the "informational power" we are now subject to
Yet when this trust is betrayed one dark afternoon
Close to the Machine E. H. Gombrich ' So begins Mary Gaitskill'sEllen Ullman's humane, insightful, and beautifully written memoir is a cult classic exploring the ever complicating intersections between people and technology. Writing from 1990s San Francisco, where she ran a programming business that served everyone from credit card companies to AIDS clinics, she describes the strange ecstasies of programming and the even stranger social dynamics of the emerging California tech world, where she crosses paths with