By: Joshua Glenn

He gave us the term “robot,” as part of his critique of capitalism.

By: Joshua Glenn

“The chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chess-board, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem… I have come to the personal conclusion […]

By: Joshua Glenn

The malign influence of typewriting upon our behavior?

By: Joshua Glenn

… to Erik Davis, a regular contributor to HiLobrow.com, whose essay “Kosmiche: Krautrock and the Sublime” in the newly published book Krautrock (Black Dog, ed. Nikos Kotsopoulos), is great stuff. Excerpt: In the nineteenth century, […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2009.

By: Joshua Glenn

Over at the BN Review, today, HiLobrow.com coeditor Matthew Battles and HiLobrow.com contributor Joe Alterio (who is one of our favorite artists) have collaborated on a terrific slideshow pegged to the 150th anniversary of the […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Noticed this over at Ninjaclectic’s Twitter feed today… The link is to Peggy Nelson’s latest Artist-in-Residence post for HiLobrow. Nelson’s tenure as our A-i-R is almost over! Not to worry, though, she’ll continue blogging for […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Ringtone: “Swinging on a Star”

By: Joshua Glenn

Over at Significant Objects today, Margaret Wertheim of the admirable Institute for Figuring tells a story about an owl-shaped pincushion and its role in the discovery that Leibniz was right to reject Newton’s notion of […]

By: Joshua Glenn

“The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from […]

By: Joshua Glenn

“At present my life can almost be likened to what a chess-piece in a game must feel when the opponent says: This piece is not to be touched — like an idle onlooker; for my hour […]

By: Joshua Glenn

Over at The Bygone Bureau, today, Tomorrow Museum’s Joanne McNeil says that HILOBROW is the Best New Blog of 2009! Why? It celebrates intellectualism and pop culture, seeking the extermination of quatsch and middlebrow. If […]

By: Joshua Glenn

“My books (& stories) are intellectual (conceptual) mazes & I am in an intellectual maze in trying to figure out our situation (who we are & how we look into the world, & world as […]

By: Joshua Glenn

DINNER. Not a little fit, not a little fit sun sat in shed more mentally. Let us why, let us why weight, let us why winter chess, let us why way. Only a moon to […]

By: Joshua Glenn

But O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag — It’s so elegant So intelligent ‘What shall I do now? What shall I do?’ ‘I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street ‘With […]