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The Parade to the Future
Reasons for Hope in a Time of Distraction
Nov 11 • 
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Leaving Facebook
Towards the goal of "getting small"
Apr 16 • 
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Is Not This Thing in My Right Hand a Lie?
On the making of idols and what to do with them
Dec 31, 2024 • 
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A Longing for the World
How Tolkien’s World Building Can Help Us See Our World Better
Published on Jokien with Tolkien • Oct 10, 2024
The One Devices
A (possible) tactic for resisting the technocracy
Sep 27, 2024 • 
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The Men Who Helped the Inklings
Mar 22, 2024 • Jeff King
Little We See in Nature
Oct 27, 2023 • Jeff King
A.I., Bitcoin, and Cloud
Aug 27, 2022 • Jeff King
Fake Plastic Earth
Aug 13, 2022 • Jeff King
The Physical Internet
A Review of "Tubes" by Andrew Blum
Aug 30, 2024 • 
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Towards a Handmade Digital Artifact
How artists and designers are applying real world constraints to the digital in order to make something new
Jun 16, 2024 • 
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The Men Who Helped the Inklings
Reflections on two lives lived in humble service
Mar 22, 2024 • 
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Little We See in Nature
On the built environment as sleep paralysis
Oct 27, 2023 • 
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On Plankton
Trying to Find the Edges of the Built World
Aug 11, 2023 • 
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Old-School Movie Magic
Fetish or Sacrament?
Jul 16, 2023 • 
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Awakening
A brief detailed chronicle of our minute-by-minute dislocation
Jul 7, 2023 • 
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A.I., Bitcoin, and Cloud
An attempt at a theological ABC in memory of Frederick Buechner
Aug 27, 2022 • 
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Fake Plastic Earth
Attempting to uncover the creaturely roots of AstroTurf
Aug 13, 2022 • 
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