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Proxies: the hidden stand-ins that shape your life a short film, inspired by Proxies and made by James Rattee and Nathalie Abbott

Keep it Clean. James Vincent on Proxies in the London Review of Books.

Someone Made a “COVID NFT” and Sent It to 96,000 People Without Asking. Slate Magazine, by Dylan Mulvin and Cait McKinney

“All people could do was hope the nerds would fix it’: the global panic over the millennium bug, 25 years on” interviewed for The Guardian’s 25-year anniversary coverage of the Y2K bug

Interview on the New Books Network Critical Theory podcast, with Dave O’Brien

Proxies: what can we learn from the stand-ins that are helping to shape real life? LSE Research for the World Magazine

The Proxies That Shape Real Life, From Yodaville to the Golden Tagliatella MIT Press Reader

Q & A with Dylan Mulvin about Proxies with Dr Rosemary Deller, LSE Review of Books

Home Icons: SAD Lamp Lauren Collee, Real Life Magazine

The Y2K Bug You’re Wrong About podcast

Viral Terminology, Technology, and Capitalism Nathalie Olah, Verso Books Blog

The Millennial Apocalypse (Y2K @ 20) New York Times

A lazy fix 20 years ago means the Y2K bug is taking down computers now Chris Stokel-Walker, New Scientist

“Japanese computers may go haywire when the emperor abdicates next year” Chris Stokel-Walker, New Scientist