Discourse Machine is a piece about the way social and news media churn out incessant

commentary on every topic, but especially in the wake of tragedies. Whether malicious

or not, immediately after a tragedy, professional and amateur pundits alike flood

conversational spaces with angles and articles that obscure the thrust of an issue and

convert human suffering into think-piece fodder; all the while, the tragedy is forgotten

and only the chatter remains. Social and news media continually enter into this cycle,

like an inverse ouroboros endlessly vomiting out new topics and takes, perpetually

generating more and more discourse.