Essay

If you’re looking for horror, the real world is scary enough.

What might a platform like Are.na mean for librarianship?

Experimental comics are works that acknowledge the traditional framework of comics but, rather than adhere to it, tend to tilt, twist, and warp it into other things.

On the policing of pets, the intersection of parallel lines, and artists as sentinel species.

This week's collection focuses on public databases, resources for self-education, and research techniques.

Participatory channels are open for anyone to add to, creating an experimental environment that encourages play.

Tools shape the way we behave. We point, swipe, skim, type, click, send. How can we reconsider the actions we perform in our daily interfaces?

Revisiting three twentieth-century thinkers who imagined computing technologies as a way to expand and explore the interconnectedness of human knowledge.

Permutation in the work of Samuel Beckett and Robert Grenier.

Gossip is a historically maligned form of communication, frequently cast as idle, feminized chatter in contrast to the masculine public sphere. Might that reputation speak to its power?

The mediating aesthetics of Google apps, from Street View to Image Search.

More and more, companies are capitalizing on post-election liberal guilt—using the current political climate as a means to increase monetary gains.

Channels related to the place at which independent and often unrelated systems meet and act on or communicate with each other.

‘Manifesto for Maintenance Art’ was and is a feminist rallying call, a proclamation of the necessity of domestic labor to the same society that sees it as worthless.

One of my first memories of being online is also one of my first memories of laughing.

Introducing David Bohm’s philosophy of dialogue, a methodology for examining and refining thought in a group setting.

Memes are credited with an increasingly important role as political propaganda, solidifying in-group identity and disseminating ideas in forms that are disarming in their unexpectedness or humor.

Channels related to geography, spatial studies, and mapping.