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Can the (Social) Oobleck Dance?
Everyone who has played with oobleck (a mixture of cornstarch and water) remembers the first surprise. Lower your hand into it slowly and it behaves like thick cream. It yields, slumps, and lazily flows around your fingers. Strike it with y...
The Taste Essay
A deft bit of stage direction in Shaw’s Pygmalion, introducing the character of Mrs. Higgins, has been stuck in my head since I first read it in high school:
There is a portrait of Mrs. Higgins as she was when she defied fashion in her y...
A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination)
There is a persistent disagreement about the macroeconomic moment. One camp sees the world as still in a leverage cycle, pointing to massive AI investment, persistent fiscal deficits, and buoyant equity markets. Another sees an unmistakable...
Dead Forest Theory
The public has undergone gravitational collapse.
For a decade, we have explained the retreat from the public internet using Yancey Strickler’s Dark Forest Theory. People withdrew into smaller, quieter spaces because speaking in public beca...
Monitoring the Situation: from 1950s-2020s
I had a ridiculous thought that I’d like to go to the Situation Room type bar (apparently it didn’t go well) to monitor the situation if it had a more 1950s Cold War vibe. That led me to make a series of images, decade by decade. Which turn...
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