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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.

Hazard and Reward

By: Matthew Battles

A thrilling boardgame — brought to you by BP.

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Planckvision

By: Matthew Battles

One view to rule them all.

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The Side of Life

By: Matthew Battles

So long as the coarse texture of pop is not touched by a paltry culture…

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LOLcat Media Studies 1: LeBron James

By: Matthew Battles

Don’t let LeBron’s apotheosis end the Internet!

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Slow Aeronautics

By: Matthew Battles

Pioneering solar flight offers us a glimpse of another aviation.

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The First is the Second

By: Matthew Battles

The creative ecology of the copy.

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Check the Right One Out

By: Matthew Battles

Sucking the lifeblood from a spirited original.

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Building Trust

By: Matthew Battles

Robots winking their way across the uncanny valley.

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The Shallow Surplus

By: Matthew Battles

Caught between techno-apologists and paleobibliophiles.

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We Reabsorb & Enliven (7)

By: Matthew Battles

Matthew Battles on Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City.

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Elaine Scarry

By: Matthew Battles

Her advocacy of the voiceless is spirited and quixotic.

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Antoine de Sainte-Exupéry

By: Matthew Battles

To abandon Earth’s succor for the theatre of the clouds.

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Simulacra (2)

By: Matthew Battles

Fake lakes, uncanny forests, and protest as performance.

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Daniel Carter Beard

By: Matthew Battles

A spirited engagement with woodcraft and boyhood.

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Barbara McClintock

By: Matthew Battles

A chromatic genius at work in the genome.

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