"This essay is part of Home Icons, a series about the cultural and material histories of domestic objects."

>"The new biography of the architect Minoru Yamasaki is not about Minoru Yamasaki. It is about the book’s author, Justin Beal."

Artists can use artificial intelligence as a creative tool to transmit themselves from the afterlife.

A system of public enterprises that build and operate housing will help us out of our current crisis and will be a step toward sharing America’s vast urban land wealth among us all.

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"The COVID-19 pandemic, like other catastrophes before it, got some of us hooked on phobic energy and terror. Why?"

"Host-read ads and rise of parasocial marketing"

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"Lockdown revolutionised women’s access to home treatment – and strengthened the anti-abortion backlash"

The medium does things to people and they always completely unaware of this. They don’t really notice the new medium that is ruffing them up. They think of the old medium because the old medium is always the content of the new medium. As _...Read More_