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Before Emoji
A collection of channels on the origins of digital pictograms

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

by Leo Shaw
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The Global Village Coffeehouse Aesthetic
Woodcuts, tribal imagery, suns, curvy figures, aroma swirls, and earth tones: Evan Collins defines the look of the 90s

by Evan Collins
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The Spaces between Species
A collection of channels feeling out our relationships with non-human beings

by Leo Shaw
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Decentralized Web Summit 2018
On the ground at the second Internet Archive summit for preserving the open web

by Jon-Kyle Mohr
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Imagining the Internet: Explaining our Digital Transition
The founder of the Internet Archive surveys the metaphors and images artists have used to understand the Internet and its short history.

by Brewster Kahle
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Reading Lists
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...

by Graham Johnson
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A Personal Philosophy of Shared Knowledge
The Creative Independent's Willa Köerner writes about how to thoughtfully and responsibly illuminate private knowledge-building in a public space

by Willa Köerner
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Women in Hypertext: On Judy Malloy and Cathy Marshall’s Forward Anywhere
At Xerox PARC in the 1990s, poet Judy Malloy and researcher Cathy Marshall began a collaborative hypertext project through correspondence

by Claire L. Evans
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Queer Technologies
Artworks exploring the nexus of queerness, the body, and technology

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

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

by Graham Johnson
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New Sentimentality
Tracking the weird and wild worlds of modern loneliness, affective politics, and digitally mediated sentimentality

by Shea Fitzpatrick
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Alternate Digital Realities
Rounding up a list of browser extensions that present visions of a better Internet and world.

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

by Graham Johnson
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The Aesthetic
This week's collection rounds up channels that build around a unifying visual aesthetic or 'vibe.'

by Graham Johnson
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Visions of the Future
This week's collection rounds up channels with distinct visions for the future.

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

by Sarah Hamerman & David Hecht
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Visible Speech
Visible Speech is an alphabet designed by Alexander Melville Bell, one of several 19th C attempts to produce a universal language.

by Meg Miller
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Posture and Gesture
This week's collection focuses on movement, gesture, and the body, from art practices to competitive sports.

by Will Freudenheim
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