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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.

Swarm Aesthetics

By: Matthew Battles

Omniveillance & iconicity.

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Collateral Damage

By: Matthew Battles

First they come for your civil liberties; the books are an afterthought.

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Start Spreadin’ the OWS

By: Matthew Battles

If we can make it there, we can make it anywhere.

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Xmas: the Moveable Feast

By: Matthew Battles

Music for escaping the time to which it returns us.

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Trickster with 1000 Faces

By: Matthew Battles

Quinn Norton explains how Anonymous came for the lulz, & stayed to free us.

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Gita Nova

By: Matthew Battles

I am become John Galt, destroyer of worlds.

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The Key of C

By: Matthew Battles

Machine, mind, and music.

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Children of the Sun

By: Matthew Battles

A short film of beauty & buried assumptions.

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Our Work Is Done

By: Matthew Battles

Virtuosic mimicry meets techno-geek genius.

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Tactical Utopia

By: Matthew Battles

The history and power of the Occupy libraries.

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Occupying Our Gardens

By: Matthew Battles

All for the better, even in this broken world.

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On the Mountain

By: Matthew Battles

In hiking & poetry, choosing not to choose.

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Feral Dissent

By: Matthew Battles

Occupy Wall Street and the ways of the wild.

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Call of the Wage

By: Matthew Battles

As Ed Champion argues, it’s a great workplace novel.

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A Border is No End

By: Matthew Battles

Confronting death, it’s borders all the way down.

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