Nowhere Fast
Antonio di Benedetto’s “Trilogy of Expectation”
Webweaving and blogging can change your life
Making my own website and blog, as well as participating in the indie web helped me to cultivate a more meaningful relationship with the web, by carving my own space…
The Global Sumud Flotilla
aiming to break the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Operating System [7″] (Catherine, 1987)
Vintage Obscura Radio
History Extra podcast: Art Deco: everything you wanted to know
In the interwar period, a movement emerged that brought together architecture, fashion, and even typography that echoed the hopes, anxieties and ambitions of the early 20th century. Charting the rise…
Assata Shakur Speaks from Exile: Excerpts from an Interview by Sociologist Christian Parenti (Cuba, 1997)
Christian Parenti teaches sociology at the New College of California in San Francisco. What happens to old Black Panthers? Some wind up dead, like Huey P. Newton. Some join the…
Homecoming: the small web and release from the unitary public self
In 1776, a Quaker living in Philadelphia recovered from a severe illness with a peculiar conviction: they had died and been reborn as the Public Universal Friend. The Public Universal…
The craft of building websites evolves when it follows web browsers, instead of fighting against them
The reason social media platforms have taken over people's content is because there is a perception that setting up a website is inherently difficult. While there is certainly some work…
Building a slow web
The internet I came to love was quieter. Smaller – which is not to say small. It was still vast, but it was a vast collection of small sites instead…
why did you join the army?
because of poverty