Notes on Blocks

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Notes on Blocks
On Making Sense of TikTok
And the ways the app parallels a kind of religious experience.

by Maya Man
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On Worlding
And lists, collections, diagrams, and configurations of discrete items that imply vast, continuous worlds.

by Tiger Dingsun
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On Chess
Exploring the correlation between sports and art through an African American, abstract, playful, creative, tech, stylish, and instinctual perspective.

by Ephraim Johnson
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On Mental Maps
"By cataloguing media relative to my fears, desires, and stresses, I’m able to trace my evolving reality." 

by Cedric Payne
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On Surface Duetting Space
An ongoing exploration on how surfaces interact with the spaces they inhabit.

by Rohan Chaurasia
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On Fugue
Loops, cycles, knots, revolutions, and the development of a new game called Fugue.

by Francis Tseng
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On Practice (In Theory)
“Some of the blocks are like bookmarks for lines of research that I want to delve more deeply into.”

by Dodi King
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On Engulfment and Escapism
Exploring the distinction between a life of occurrences versus a life lived and savored.

by Emily Nabnian
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On Indexing
“By walking the same route around my apartment everyday, I was in a choreography of noticing and collecting.”

by Ritu Ghiya
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On Worldbuilding
Creating a future from the intersection of Blackness, rest, and technology in our past and present.

by Kai Jenrette
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On Karen Blixen’s Flowers
The famous Danish author was also a talented, intuitive, somewhat unhinged arranger of flowers.

by Meg Miller
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On The Many Copies of the Orchid Pavilion Preface
A centuries-old obsession with a single artwork made in a single moment.

by William Pan
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On Tables
Tables are both infrastructure for and signifiers of our social relations and interactions.

by Clemens Jahn
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