SCREENSHOTS (8-26)

By: Joshua Glenn
August 28, 2026

SCREENSHOTS is a monthly series of posts via which HILOBROW’s Josh Glenn reviews his most recent screenshots — before deleting them from the over-full Dropbox folder to which they’d been uploaded. Also see the PHOTO DUMP series.

AUGUST 2026


I continue to interview commercial/applied semioticians around the world for the MAKING SENSE Q&A series at SEMIOVOX…

As we approach the 150th Q&A in the series, it’s time to take a break. As of mid-November, MAKING SENSE will go on hiatus.

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Detail of a photo — of Annalee Newitz — for a forthcoming installment in the HILOBROW series MEDIA DIET.

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Earlier this year, I was an advisor for Rusudan Dushuashvili’s RISD MID thesis project. It came out really well!

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Courtesy of San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library

Illustration for a forthcoming installment in Lynn Peril’s PLANET OF PERIL series here at HILOBROW.

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The MIT Press’s edition of Olaf Stapledon’s Last and First Men — included by Transfer Orbit in a roundup of August titles. (Also pictured: Robert Jackson Bennett’s A Trade of Blood, the third book in the Shadow of the Leviathan series — which I’ve been reading recently.)

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Got one of these 2019 quarters in my change, hadn’t seen it before. A “Lowell Girl” at work on a G-schema-ish mechanism.

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Detail of a forthcoming illustration by Rani Som for HILOBROW.

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Detail from the cover of John Collier’s sardonic 1931 science fiction novel No Traveller Returns, an excerpt from which HILOBROW will serialize next year.

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