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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.

Memento Mortensen

By: Matthew Battles

Renewing looks at a forgotten master photographer.

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Scifi Belly

By: Matthew Battles

Artist Ward Shelley dissects the genre.

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The Great Wave

By: Matthew Battles

The collision of story, spectacle, and catastrophe.

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What Tech Takes

By: Matthew Battles

Evgeny Morozov on technology, etymology, and power.

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The Sheen of the Word Gone Mad

By: Matthew Battles

Linguistic derangement taken to extremes.

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The King’s Mouth

By: Matthew Battles

Of stammering, family life, and speaking power to truth.

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Makes the Man

By: Matthew Battles

A serial tale first told in Twitter.

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No Longer Nature?

By: Matthew Battles

Beyond Nature & Nurture with Mailer & McLuhan.

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Tech Superego

By: Matthew Battles

Integrating the technopsychic apparatus.

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Riveted

By: Matthew Battles

Design fiction opens a whole new era in energy drinks.

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Make Me To Die

By: Matthew Battles

We must imagine the plastic bag is happy.

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Wanted: more pardons

By: Matthew Battles

Absolution for the influencers.

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Ukulele Heroes (3): Tiny Tim

By: Matthew Battles

The enigmatic uke player’s lonely, uncanny shtick.

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Imago

By: Matthew Battles

Beauty in the ear of the beholder.

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Ukulele Heroes (2)

By: Matthew Battles

Arthur Godfrey learned that quatsch can be a fickle friend.

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