- RESISTANCE TO THE COLONISING PRESENT – Paul Raven quoting and discussing Deb Chachra: ” The notion that the present is colonising — or, in economic terms, externalising — the future is a powerful, if distinctly bleak metaphor. But I think it also contains some cause for hope regarding the ultimate result of this struggle, provided we lean into the metaphor a little further. “
- Jay Springett on notebooks and lists
- Sean Bonner’s personal uniform
- Adam Greenfield interviewed about “the undead rhetoric of the smart city”
- Marc Weidenbaum on sound design and the CHERNOBYL show
- At A Year In The Country: Looker and the Imagined Omnipotence of the 1980s Computer
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