Aug 17, 2018Member-onlyThrough a Glass Darkly : The Scene and the AnthropoceneRuminating on B. Singleton’s article “Anthropocene Nights” Designers are implicated throughout human history in many of the disastrous socio-political movements, environmental destruction, and cultural appropriation. The current fad in critical design seems to be one that looks at design through a dystopian lens. …Climate Change4 min readClimate Change4 min read
Aug 7, 2018Member-onlyInterstellar Reverberations — Contextualizing DJ Spooky’s Voyager RemixOctober 2016 Voyager Remix by Paul D. Miller, aka DJ Spooky the Subliminal Kid, is a 2016 remix of the sounds and music that were sent on a golden phonographic record entitled The Sounds of Earth on the interstellar space probes Voyager I and II by the American space…Space6 min readSpace6 min read
Aug 7, 2018Member-onlyThe IndigestibleI am rereading the same sentence again; possibly for the hundredth time. It is hard to take meaning from something so vast in the context of this curtained room, with the noise of strangers close and the permeating smell of rubbing alcohol: “… the “real” expanded and swallowed up…Design3 min readDesign3 min read
