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The PLEASURE of Handmade Fashion
Purpose, Longevity, Ethics, Asymmetry, Style, Utility, Refashion, Empowerment...

by Tiana Dueck
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On Pricing
On upcoming changes to premium memberships

by Charles Broskoski
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Notes on “Taste”
Jottings on an elusive term.

by Brie Wolfson
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Poetry’s So Common Hardly Anyone Can Find It
More than a literary form, Poetry is the essence of inner feelings and thoughts as they relate to the external world.

by C.C.
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Portals to Elsewhere 
Surfline provides live photo or webcam video feeds of surf breaks around the world.

by Lukas WinklerPrins
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Tongue of the Computer
On Kamau Brathwaite’s Sycorax video style, the poet’s attempt “to put on the page what sound looked like.”

by Bryce Wilner
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On Complexity
The search for fissures in systems and networks, towards parts-to-whole relations with ecological and biophysical processes.

by Casey Tang
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The Art of Tending to Oneself
Piecing together a framework for reflection from various practices, quotes, and ways of thinking.

by Alice Otieno
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On Motivation
A meditation on what keeps us going, on the occasion of Are.na’s 10th anniversary.

by Charles Broskoski
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What Do People Do All Day?
On how things are made, who gets to make them, and how labor and time gets leveraged.

by Michael Bell-Smith
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Limitlessness and Limitations: Defining Dark Matters
An assemblage of knowledge established within our mutual histories

by American Artist and Zainab Aliyu
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Who Cares?
As long as computers are built to be in service of, the limits of their intelligence will always be the limits of their suzerain.

by Emma Rae Bruml Norton
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Tenderness Shares A Root With Attention
How have tending and attention changed over time and across contexts, and what might that evolution teach us? 

by Juliana Castro
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Place Holder
Ecology is a weird compass, and through attendance, we can learn to use it.

by Austin Wade Smith
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Measuring the Internet as a Gesture of Tending (Towards)
“How are you? No really, how are you?”

by Lai Yi Ohlsen
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On Memory Palaces & Visual Computation
And using an ancient mnemonic device as an organizational tactic for storing and archiving information online.

by Taulant Sulko
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A Place for Relating to Water
Examining the desire to recreate controllable environments that fit within our own scales and bounds.

by Lucy Siyao Liu
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Southern Electronics and Grassroots Technologies 
Black people are the dependent variable in the progression of civilization, not a function of it.

by R.C. Clarke
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Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never Was
Before the Internet, hypermedia projects explored open frameworks for moving through a body of knowledge

by Claire L. Evans
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Onion and Rocks
On two webzine anthologies and publishing an “oral history of the internet.”

by Laurel Schwulst
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