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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.

Ukulele Heroes (1)

By: Matthew Battles

Cliff Edwards & the danger of a tiny instrument.

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The Cyborg, Anatomized

By: Matthew Battles

Tim Maly cliquesources a milestone in tech culture.

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Science Fancy

By: Matthew Battles

A genre that flourishes on cable, public TV, and in IMAX theaters.

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Space For Sale

By: Matthew Battles

Selling our cultural commons without a license.

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J.G. RISING!

By: Matthew Battles

In author years, he’s still under forty!

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Animismation

By: Matthew Battles

Animation gets a Shinto wilding.

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Robots and Dumborgs

By: Matthew Battles

Just lie back and put on your visor and body armor.

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Traveling the Zones

By: Matthew Battles

All aboard the space-time bandwidth.

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Time Zones

By: Matthew Battles

Google Earth’s tapestry of atemporality.

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Modernist Cuisine

By: Matthew Battles

The very rich diet of Nathan Myhrvold.

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Novel Apps

By: Matthew Battles

The future novel a cycle of apps?

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Book Molecules

By: Matthew Battles

Physics & the future of the book.

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Cyborg Theology

By: Matthew Battles

The gap between us and our data, bridged by faith.

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Camera Lucida (2)

By: Matthew Battles

Photography and estrangement, part two.

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Camera Lucida (1)

By: Matthew Battles

A tale in two parts, by Matthew Battles

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