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A collection of channels on the origins of digital pictograms

DISPATCH Learning In and Out of School A collection of resources on learning, pedagogy, and cooperative education.

Woodcuts, tribal imagery, suns, curvy figures, aroma swirls, and earth tones: Evan Collins defines the look of the 90s

A collection of channels feeling out our relationships with non-human beings

On the ground at the second Internet Archive summit for preserving the open web

The founder of the Internet Archive surveys the metaphors and images artists have used to understand the Internet and its short history.

Ways of seeing belong not just to individuals but to fields and subcultures. The best way to understand the state of a discipline can be to pay attention to what...

The Creative Independent's Willa Köerner writes about how to thoughtfully and responsibly illuminate private knowledge-building in a public space

At Xerox PARC in the 1990s, poet Judy Malloy and researcher Cathy Marshall began a collaborative hypertext project through correspondence

Artworks exploring the nexus of queerness, the body, and technology

Graham Johnson revisits the 3x5 note card, which played a crucial role in documenting, indexing, and linking information in the twentieth century

How to know a place as large as L.A. County, five thousand square miles and population eleven million, if not through triangulation?

Tracking the weird and wild worlds of modern loneliness, affective politics, and digitally mediated sentimentality

Rounding up a list of browser extensions that present visions of a better Internet and world.

The commonplace book is a notebook style with roots in the Enlightenment, where thinkers could log the best quotes and insights from their readings.

This week's collection rounds up channels that build around a unifying visual aesthetic or 'vibe.'

This week's collection rounds up channels with distinct visions for the future.

Recapping the Cybernetics Conference, held November 15-18 at Prime Produce, NYC.