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Blank envelope with a pen across it.
Issue 42 by Yanyi on October 19th, 2016
Two poems about the ways I'm tokenized and asked to respond as a technical POC in the industry.
A lone student walking across a brick walkway, outlined dramatically by rows of stairs in black and white.
Issue 41 by Fallen Matthews on September 8th, 2016
Any contribution I make will either be ignored or exploited to sell their idyllic, inactive intellectualism.
A humanoid robot gazes into space, mechanical parts visible between plates of "flesh".
Issue 32 by Meghan Trainor on February 2nd, 2016
The interrogation of the robot’s motives interrogates its algorithms, its programmatic lineage, its manufacture, the factory of its origins, the mountains from which its metal was mined.
Multiple surveillance feeds displayed across many screens.
Issue 21 by Sedge Armon on May 18th, 2015
How is an article about surveillance by a woman who admits her madness to be taken seriously at all?
Watches with various health-related symbols featured on the screen: sleep, fitness, mood.
Issue 20 by Deanna Day on April 29th, 2015
Technologies have politics and games have aesthetics, but neither of these factors are immutable; there might still be time to rewrite the purpose of the iPhone’s accelerometer and motion co-processor.
A street in Cuba, electric wires hanging in between lines of storefronts and residences. It's a beautiful sunny day and people are walking down the street in the distance.
Issue 19 by Daniel José Older on April 8th, 2015
The changing faces and storefronts reveal another chapter in the long ugly history of race and power.
Piers and the ocean at night.
Sex and Sexuality by Neve Be on September 8th, 2014
Many of us do not know what a private body looks like.