Essay

On tuning your radar toward the things that you love.

Unraveling an expansive definition of “protective style” that unites BIPOC ways of making

What does it mean to film the natural world through a non-human lens? Is such a thing possible?

On translation, interdependence, and the generosity of Ramadan calendars (Allahu Akram)

Purpose, Longevity, Ethics, Asymmetry, Style, Utility, Refashion, Empowerment...

On upcoming changes to premium memberships

Jottings on an elusive term.

More than a literary form, Poetry is the essence of inner feelings and thoughts as they relate to the external world.

Surfline provides live photo or webcam video feeds of surf breaks around the world.

On Kamau Brathwaite’s Sycorax video style, the poet’s attempt “to put on the page what sound looked like.”

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

Piecing together a framework for reflection from various practices, quotes, and ways of thinking.

A meditation on what keeps us going, on the occasion of Are.na’s 10th anniversary.

On how things are made, who gets to make them, and how labor and time gets leveraged.

An assemblage of knowledge established within our mutual histories

As long as computers are built to be in service of, the limits of their intelligence will always be the limits of their suzerain.

How have tending and attention changed over time and across contexts, and what might that evolution teach us? 

Ecology is a weird compass, and through attendance, we can learn to use it.