OUT NOW! This Can’t be the Place

By Ruben Stoffelen, May 11, 2026

This Can’t be the Place: Alternative Theories of the Internet is the latest INC reader featuring a selection of INC Longform’s from the past five years. You can read it online, download it as a PDF, or order it for free at home.

Mythologized Masculinity and Dietary Practices

By Ruben Stoffelen, April 25, 2024

Dietary practices and the digital landscape have always been entangled with one another. It seems like the visual practice of posting your food has existed as long as the affordance of posting photos online has existed, with heavily filtered pictures of plates and their contents being ubiquitous on almost any social media platform. Think of [...]

Unsettling the Cloud: On Data Centers and Counter-Narratives

By Ruben Stoffelen, November 24, 2023

As I gaze out of my window, I am met with a totem. This totem is gray and windowless, nestled in between offices and academic buildings. Behind it is a park, and the longer I stare, the deeper it becomes embedded in the natural landscape, after a bit I forget it’s there. But in the [...]

Posts By: Ruben Stoffelen

OUT NOW! This Can’t be the Place

Mythologized Masculinity and Dietary Practices

Unsettling the Cloud: On Data Centers and Counter-Narratives