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The PLEASURE of Handmade Fashion
Purpose, Longevity, Ethics, Asymmetry, Style, Utility, Refashion, Empowerment...
January 12, 2023
by Tiana Dueck
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On Pricing
On upcoming changes to premium memberships
December 15, 2022
by Charles Broskoski
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Notes on “Taste”
Jottings on an elusive term.
May 2, 2022
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.
April 4, 2022
by C.C.
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Portals to Elsewhere
Surfline provides live photo or webcam video feeds of surf breaks around the world.
March 7, 2022
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.”
December 13, 2021
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.
September 7, 2021
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.
August 24, 2021
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.
August 9, 2021
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.
July 21, 2021
by Michael Bell-Smith
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Limitlessness and Limitations: Defining Dark Matters
An assemblage of knowledge established within our mutual histories
July 13, 2021
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.
July 1, 2021
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?
June 15, 2021
by Juliana Castro
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Place Holder
Ecology is a weird compass, and through attendance, we can learn to use it.
April 14, 2021
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?”
April 2, 2021
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.
March 4, 2021
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.
January 19, 2021
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.
December 22, 2020
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
October 27, 2020
by Claire L. Evans
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Onion and Rocks
On two webzine anthologies and publishing an “oral history of the internet.”
July 23, 2020
by Laurel Schwulst
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