Story of a Photograph

Posted on August 17, 2020
Image: Chartres Street, New Orleans, 1974, by John Rosenthal (detail).

The man who approached me on Chartres Street looked like he’d been tossed away.

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Still Searching

Posted on July 23, 2020
Image: Nuclear reactor diagrams/Library of Congress, Science Photo Library; diagram of a whale from an 1880s comparative zoology textbook.

The Internet is a technical system that has reshaped social roles and relationships in ways that we are at this point far from fully understanding. We are living out the terms of the new social contract.

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