with nature and
new technologies
Instagramming your weekend at the cottage. Meditating with a mobile app. Our modern lives are increasingly marked by a tension between connection and disconnection—between new technologies and nature.
In Green Screen, the inaugural issue of our new BESIDE Journals collection, we cast a curious, comical, and commonsense gaze on this new reality.
Here you’ll get a taste of the print issue, as well as some online, audio, and interactive extras—to add some extra spice to your Summer 2019!
Essays
Practical Guide
Chelsea Vowel
Douglas Coupland
Dominic Tardif
Matthieu Dugal
JESSICA: I am replying to your 🙂 with another 🙂 to express the enjoyment I’m feeling.
ELLEN: I received your 🙂 in response to mine. The enjoyment you felt came through loud and clear, and brought me a level of enjoyment that I imagine was similar to that which you experienced. I’m replying with the same 🙂 yet again.
J: Your second 🙂 brought additional enjoyment to me. While I considered simply sending you another 🙂 I grew concerned that this particular expression no longer accurately depicted the extent of playfulness I’m now feeling. So, instead, I’m sending you a 😜.
E: I enjoyed your 😜 and found it to be both humorous and whimsical. Incidentally, these are also qualities that I admire in you as a person. I’m sending you a 😘 in the hope that this feeling comes across. My secondary hope is that this conclusively punctuates our conversation and frees us to attend to other aspects of our lives.