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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.

Biking in Public

By: Matthew Battles

Shared bikes and the virtues of the commons.

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Objectography

By: Matthew Battles

Ian Bogost on Barry Winogrand and picturing pictures of things.

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The Call of the Feral

By: Matthew Battles

The running dogs of digital culture.

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Forever

By: Matthew Battles

For Alaska’s Bear Glacier, the dead letter office.

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29 Minutes

By: Matthew Battles

On 9/11, the time it took to slip into the semantics of our end times.

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Jimmie Rodgers

By: Matthew Battles

The African legacy of the father of country music.

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Paul Otlet

By: Matthew Battles

A vision of knowledge and cooperation, taken by the wind.

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Stealing is Stealing

By: Matthew Battles

But the question is, who stole first?

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EPIC WINS (5)

By: Matthew Battles

Matthew Battles’ version of an archive-bound Chinook tale.

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4CP Friday

By: Matthew Battles

A selection of 4CP images curated by Matthew Battles

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The Telescope of Bits

By: Matthew Battles

The lunar dance, captured by far-seeing machines.

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The Feral Muse (6)

By: Matthew Battles

Robinson Jeffers’ feral heroine is California.

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The Feral Muse (5)

By: Matthew Battles

It brings us at the sound of a whistle.

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The Feral Muse (4)

By: Matthew Battles

They make burrows in the ramparts.

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Ticking

By: Matthew Battles

Synchronizing a watch on Memorial Day.

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