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Covers:  politics, art, design, technology, digital art, literature, surveillance, privacy
books: Wrong Way (2023) and Lurking (2020)

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Prêt à travailler: workaholic holograms

Prêt à travailler: workaholic holograms

A few months back, in a particularly long queue to get to the departure area at Logan International Airport i…

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Mirror with Memory and a Blind Spot

Mirror with Memory and a Blind Spot

You can't call the Google Street View camera a narcissist. Any mirror-shot selfies it takes were never meant …

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A Dispatch From Bradley Manning's Conviction

A Dispatch From Bradley Manning's Conviction

There were two blond heads sitting at opposite tables at the court martial of Pfc Bradley Manning. The lead p…

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Bradley Manning on Trial

Bradley Manning on Trial

If Manning is ever released, he will re-enter a world ready to embrace him, advanced with the understanding t…

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On the intricacies of Hollywood archaeology

On the intricacies of Hollywood archaeology

This article was taken from the July 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in p…

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Paris Review - Dance to the Music of Time: Tacita Dean at the New Museum, Joanne McNeil

Paris Review - Dance to the Music of Time: Tacita Dean at the New Museum, Joanne McNeil

Several times a week, I sneak downstairs to watch dancers rehearse with Merce Cunningham. I work at a nonprof…

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Making Sense of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Monumental Life’s Work

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Back to selection by Joanne McNeil Lynn Hershman Leeson, Roberta Multiple Lies Down Beside Construction Chart (Michelle Larson), 1978. Courtesy of the artist and Hoffman Donahue, Los Angeles / New York. Copyright Lynn Hershman Leeson. by Joanne McNeil in Columns, Issues on Apr 22, 2026 Lynn Hershman Leeson, michelle handelman, Private I, Spring 2026 Last year, I stumbled on a bootleg copy of Twists in the Cord (1994), an experimental documentary shot on video by Lynn Hershman Leeson.
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One Trillion Possibilities: The Internet Archive and the Vanishing Open Web

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by Joanne McNeil in Columns, Issues on Dec 22, 2025 Winter 2026 Twelve slashed zeros and a one, made of wood and latex paint, stand tall on the roof of the former church where the Internet Archive is headquartered in San Francisco. The organization commissioned this artwork by Jesse Walton to mark an unusual achievement this autumn. For the past 30 years, the digital library has preserved websites, and its collection now exceeds a trillion pages.
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Publishers leave the dead malls of Web 2.0

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Publishers leave the dead malls of Web 2.0 “Ultimately, publications need to be compelling enough for readers to remember to type their URLs in a web browser.” -ublishers-leave-the-dead-malls-of-eb-2-0 There’s nothing left for you in the dead malls of Web 2.0. The era of mass platform-based social media has ended, and any publication still chasing likes and clicks in 2026 is holding the bag.
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