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Each essay on Are.na Editorial begins with an Are.na channel.

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by Austin Wade Smith
Place Holder
Ecology is a weird compass, and through attendance, we can learn to use it.
by Austin Wade Smith

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by Lai Yi Ohlsen
Measuring the Internet as a Gesture of Tending (Towards)
“How are you? No really, how are you?”
by Lai Yi Ohlsen

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by Taulant Sulko
On Memory Palaces & Visual Computation
And using an ancient mnemonic device as an organizational tactic for storing and archiving information online.
by Taulant Sulko

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by Lucy Siyao Liu
A Place for Relating to Water
Examining the desire to recreate controllable environments that fit within our own scales and bounds.
by Lucy Siyao Liu

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by R.C. Clarke
Southern Electronics and Grassroots Technologies
Black people are the dependent variable in the progression of civilization, not a function of it.
by R.C. Clarke

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by Claire L. Evans
Hyperland, Intermedia, and the Web That Never Was
Before the Internet, hypermedia projects explored open frameworks for moving through a body of knowledge
by Claire L. Evans

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by Laurel Schwulst
Onion and Rocks
On two webzine anthologies and publishing an “oral history of the internet.”
by Laurel Schwulst

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by David Reinfurt
When It Changed Part 1: Before the Billboard Ban
In the summer of 1968, Vermont was about to publish a statewide billboard ban, courtesy of environmentalist and eccentric Republican Theodor Riehle.
by David Reinfurt

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by David Reinfurt and Eric Li
When It Changed Part 3: An Ambient Aftermath
What if software wasn’t designed to capture attention, but instead to promote presence?
by David Reinfurt and Eric Li

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by Eric Li
When It Changed Part 2: The Continued Corporatization of the Web
Fifty years after Vermont's billboard ban, Facebook’s ad strategies prove a threat to American democracy. How did we get here?
by Eric Li

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by Shea Fitzpatrick
The First Computer Mouse Conference
Dedicated to an object that’s ubiquitous yet already nostalgic, the conference held equal space for history, futurity, and somewhere-else’s.
by Shea Fitzpatrick

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by Caroline Sinders and Hyphen-Labs
Reimagining Privacy Online Through A Spectrum of Intimacy
Designing for better channels of intimacy is as important for privacy protection as security protocols
by Caroline Sinders and Hyphen-Labs

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by Leo Shaw
Workshop Debrief: How to Use the Internet Mindfully
Lessons from our workshop with The Creative Independent on building a healthy relationship with the web
by Leo Shaw

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by Becca Abbe
The Internet’s Back-to-the-Land Movement
In the 1970s, an analysis of Earth’s finite resources coincided with hundreds of thousands of Americans going off-grid. As we begin to see the limits to online growth, what’s the digital equivalent?
by Becca Abbe

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by Meg Miller
On Flying, Talismanic Tarmacs, and Soul Delay
An unchronological search for the soul through time.
by Meg Miller

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by Leo Shaw
On Forest Knowledge and Living, Growing Thoughts
A walk through Are.na reveals the tangled assemblages connecting human and non-human life
by Leo Shaw

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by Leo Shaw
Knots, Knits, and Tangles
From survival guides to string stories to quipu, every knot is a set of instructions crystallized.
by Leo Shaw
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by Ha Duong, Julia Panek, and Lucy Chinen
Printing Are.na at Screen Spaces
Collecting, archiving, and printing a body of research for this week's multi-site exhibition on video culture in NYC.
by Ha Duong, Julia Panek, and Lucy Chinen

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by Cory Arcangel
The North Face
Cory Arcangel on pragmatic Norwegian music festivals, our "always on" economy, and EDM stars as the ultimate just-in-time, carbon-guzzling cog.
by Cory Arcangel
