Paulina Borsook

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Paulina Borsook is an American

art installation based on her experiences living with the traumatic brain injury
she suffered due to a gunshot when she was 14 years old.

Biography

Paulina Borsook was born in Pasadena, California. In 1969, when she was 15, she ran away from home and stayed at Rochdale College in Toronto, Canada.[1] She later attended UC Santa Barbara where she ran a radio show on KCSB. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in psycholinguistics and a minor in philosophy. She then attended graduate school at the University of Arizona before transferring to Columbia University where she earned her MFA.[2]

Beginning in 1981, Borsook took a job at a Marin County, California software company. She later worked for the New York-based Data Communications publication in 1984 before returning to San Francisco in 1987.[3]

Borsook has written extensively about the culture surrounding technology, including Silicon Valley, cypherpunks, bionomics, and technolibertarianism. Her first short story, "Virtual Romance", was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.[2] She became a contributing writer at Wired in the 1990s and her short story about an email romance, "Love Over The Wires", was the first fiction published by the magazine.[4] She has also written for Mother Jones and Suck.com, where she wrote under the name "Justine".[5]

Cyberselfish

Borsook wrote the book Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech, which was published by

Salon in 2000.[9][10]

My Life as a Ghost

As a 14-year-old, Borsook suffered a

art installation that combines video, audio, performance, and other media into a built environment to explore "[w]hat happens when the soul is blasted out of the body and is incompletely returned".[11]

She became the first artist in the Stanford Arts Institute’s new Research Residency program, and presented the concept to an audience in October 2013 at Stanford University's Bing Theatre.[12]

Personal life

Borsook is divorced, and lives in Santa Cruz, California.[13] She has advocated for the end of the light brown apple moth eradication programs of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA).[2]

Bibliography

By Paulina Borsook

Books

  • Cyberselfish. a critical romp through the terribly libertarian culture of high tech, PublicAffairs, 2000, 1st ed.,
    ISBN 9783423242554
    )

References

  1. ^ "Not home for the holidays". Salon. November 21, 2000.
  2. ^ a b c "Contact/bio". Paulinaborsook.com. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
  3. ^ a b "Paulina Borsook: The grande dame of digital culture". The Independent. 31 July 2000. Archived from the original on 2022-05-25.
  4. ^ Borsook, Paulina (September–October 1993). "Love Over the Wires". Wired.
  5. ^ Krempl, Stefan (August 8, 2001). "The religion of technolibertarianism". Telepolis.
  6. ^ Borsook, Paulina (July–August 1996). "Cyberselfish". Mother Jones.
  7. ^ Kamiya, Gary (January 20, 1997). "Smashing the state". Salon.
  8. ISBN 9781579580582
    .
  9. ^ Raymond, Eric (June 28, 2000). "Don't tweak the geeks!". Salon.
  10. ^ "Paulina Borsook to Eric Raymond: Don't you Kakutani me!". Salon. June 30, 2000.
  11. ^ Dakkak, Angelique (November 11, 2013). "Paulina Borsook shares thoughts on her "My Life as a Ghost" project". The Stanford Daily.
  12. ^ Eichelberger, Eric (October 31, 2013). "Paulina Borsook: My Life as a Ghost". The Stanford Arts Institute.
  13. ^ "Revenge of the chocolate zucchini bread". Salon. October 10, 2000.

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