ATTENTION LAB, a 3-part podcast I developed and produced with the School of Radical Attention, premieres today on all platforms. Our first episode focuses on studying attention, and what that can do for us in an age of attention extraction. Please write me if you have a chance to listen;
Voices in the River Season 3 On Friday I left New York's endless whir and came into a blackout. In Boulder, where I am from, the wind has been so strong that the city turned off the electricity in the downtown neighborhoods for days. They are taking precautions
For the first time in a long time, I reviewed a play! My essay on Marjorie Prime—Jordan Harrison's near-future family drama with androids—is now up on 3Views, a very cool theatre criticism publication that commissions three different takes on each play they cover, in three different
In the split second after a piece of prey flies into a spider web, its reverberations dash through the tapestry of silk. The strands vibrate in a particular patterns of echoes, minute tremors that the spider has learned to read. These web vibrations hold many meanings for the spider, meanings
Hello! I have recently changed newsletter platforms, so you may be seeing this if you were subscribed to me elsewhere. In this letter I explain why and what I hope to do here, now that I've turned my personal website into a blog. This morning I saw a