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Author: Matthew Battles

Part of the founding HILOBROW crew, Matthew Battles is a maker and thinker whose work merges literary, scholarly, and artistic forms of inquiry. His writing on the cultural dimensions of science and technology has appeared in such venues as The Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, and Orion. His most recent book,Tree, was published in Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series in 2017. After ten years exploring the dark abundance of libraries and museums with metaLAB (at) Harvard, Matthew now edits Arnoldia: the Nature of Trees, the magazine of the Arnold Arboretum.

The Well-Tempered One

By: Matthew Battles

Sleeping rough, normatively.

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Aaron Swartz

By: Matthew Battles

His genius was ungovernable, feral, utopian.

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The Given

By: Matthew Battles

What we talk about when we talk about data.

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Leibniz’s Mill

By: Matthew Battles

Artificial intelligence grinds its gears.

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12 Days of Significance (1)

By: Matthew Battles

Matthew Battles vs. CANDYLAND LABYRINTH GAME

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Kirk Your Enthusiasm (18)

By: Matthew Battles

Brinksmanship on the brink

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If we shadows

By: Matthew Battles

Pavement, light, time, and reverie.

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Naming the Cinema

By: Matthew Battles

A bestiary of cinematic technologies.

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Time Being

By: Matthew Battles

A change-ringing verse for the turning of the year.

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Essay on Man

By: Matthew Battles

The circling sea of faith & the energetic unrevealing cold.

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A Feline Lament

By: Matthew Battles

A poem by Matthew Battles.

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Smile, Associates

By: Matthew Battles

Vanessa Veselka tallies the wages of wage-slavery.

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The Feral Drones

By: Matthew Battles

Pyres of code in the writeable sky.

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This Pone Pwns

By: Matthew Battles

At Words Without Borders, a folk-epic recipe.

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Mothstorm

By: Matthew Battles

Autumn and the quiet collision of species.

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