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When you deposit frozen fish in someone’s safe deposit box

Malte Ziewitz
The Audacity of Text

The digital idioms of democracy

Marc Aidinoff
The Hungry Sovereign

We have heard about the emperor’s clothes, but what about the sovereign’s appetite?

Kriti Kapila
Suspended Endings

Decommissioning an oil platform can be as hard as building one

Ava Rawson
When the Grounds Shake

The promises and parasites of tsunami prediction

Fleur Johns
Waiting for mRNA

Vaccine platforms reveal the limits of global health’s imagination

Aishani V. Aatresh
Tending Tomorrow’s Garden Forests

Learning modules and the possibilities of cross-pollination

Rebecca Hardin
Ed Waisanen
Nils Kohn
Wim J.J.M. Scheenen
The Payphone and the Coffee Stand

Communicative space is a forgotten remedy

Pablo J. Boczkowski
Climate Change Chatter Inside the Box

UN Live’s promise of social repair through teleconferencing

Juan Llamas-Rodriguez
Bounding Box Architecture

Seeing the relationships that leak from the frame

Amelyn Ng
Big Wellness and goopy Governance

Aspirational health is not cheap

Shiloh Krupar
An Elevated Walk

On making high heels work

Chris Hesselbein
Metastatic Content

How the porn scene mutates across platforms

Hannah Wohl
Big Tech at the Bingo

Eighty-five, there goes our social lives!

Ella McPherson
Platform Obscurantism

The hidden substrates of machine learning

Alondra Nelson
Preface: This is Not a Platform

Upending the economy of appearances

Ann H. Kelly
Sonja Van Wichelen
Ashley Carse
A Whisper of Gef to Lily Dale
The chatbot, the librarian, and the "extra clever mongoose"
Christopher Josiffe
Manifesting Loab
Agency panic and the monsters that stalk the digital paranormal
Fernando Armstrong-Fumero
If You Give a Gorilla a Wallet…
Does nature need its own gig economy?
Courtney Handman
Sarah Muir
Book of Songs
That death is not the end
Mariah Garnett
Ghosts of Digital Extraction
Anti-blackness and the plantation in American tech
Brooklyne Gipson
Out of the Shadows
The Limn interview with Dan Gerstein of Gotham Ghostwriters
Townsend Middleton
Jason Cons
Dan Gerstein
Algorithmic Counter-Divination
Community datasets power other machines
Mashinka Firunts Hakopian
Identification Error
Digital misrecognition and the making of the "Asian face"
Wendy Sung