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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 Feral Muse (3)

By: Matthew Battles

Thirst, trampling, and other ordinances of nature.

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The Feral Muse (2)

By: Matthew Battles

He laid down on his back, as if supplicating for mercy…

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4CP Friday

By: Matthew Battles

A selection of 4CP images curated by Matthew Battles

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Putting Down Roots

By: Matthew Battles

Joanne McNeil moves to Rhizome!

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Salient Green

By: Matthew Battles

The dystopian classic is also a parable of the information age.

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The Magnificent Butcher

By: Matthew Battles

A celebrity chef tastes the forbidden flavor.

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Pop Leviathan

By: Matthew Battles

Hatsune Miku and crowdsourced charisma.

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Transpositions

By: Matthew Battles

Sounds like linking & sharing, too.

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Disappointed Maps

By: Matthew Battles

Clement Valla’s postcards from an imaging catastrophe.

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Drawn by Criticism

By: Matthew Battles

Stephen Burt on the making of a critic.

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Order World

By: Matthew Battles

Genki Sudo’s pop group makes the salaryman into an uncanny spectacle.

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Ghost, Demons & Aliens, Oh My!

By: Matthew Battles

YouTube and the Pop Paranormal.

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Good Man, Interrupted

By: Matthew Battles

Charlie Brown & le Misère du Monde.

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News Effects

By: Matthew Battles

Beauty and catastrophe in parallax.

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Unfinished Objects

By: Matthew Battles

Field Notes turns branding into making.

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