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Essay
Felt Time
A durational piece, akin to a living fossil.
7/18/2024
Tess Murdoch
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Essay
Sects in the City
A diaristic repository of my dating experiences.
7/11/2024
Shelby Shaw
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Essay
What Makes It Through
On projecting the outside inward.
6/26/2024
Shelby Wilson
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Conversation
An Interview with Spencer Chang
On their new collections app, Gather.
6/13/2024
Charles Broskoski, Meg Miller, and Spencer Chang
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Essay
Ephemera: A Rock Collection
In the beginning, there was magma.
6/6/2024
Michelle Santiago Cortés
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Essay
All the Tenderness of Attention
An excerpt from our audio experiment with Montez Press Radio.
5/30/2024
Sharon Neema
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Conversation
Pattern Recognition
On sewing your own clothes.
5/9/2024
Laurel Schwulst and Tracy Ma
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Essay
ENTRANCE
From where it was to where it is.
5/2/2024
David Reinfurt
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Are.na Annual
Open call for Pitches for the 2025 Are.na Annual
The theme this year is “document.”
4/18/2024
Meg Miller
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Hello World
Are.na Spring Cleaning
Digital detox with us, Are.na style…
4/16/2024
Laurel Schwulst
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Essay
The Future Will Be Like Perfume
After Brian Eno.
4/5/2024
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Essay
Ephemeral Cities
On perfume and urban utopias
4/4/2024
Emily Jensen
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Essay
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Carcinogenic Fantasy
On the prickly aroma of hydrocarbons.
4/3/2024
Vivian Medithi
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Essay
Dowsing
Orange and silver memories.
4/2/2024
Amelia K.
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Essay
Post-Fragrantica Manifesto
Perfume’s digital slouch towards flatness.
3/30/2024
Audrey Robinovitz
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Essay
Cherry Chapstick
Smells like seventh grade.
3/29/2024
C.C.
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Essay
Notes on Notes
True freshness in a bottle…
3/27/2024
Maya Man
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Essay
Metaphorically Speaking
In the rainy breath of time.
3/26/2024
Meg Miller
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Essay
Mall Memories
What I cherished most about the mall was the baptism of synthetic scents.
3/25/2024
Terry Nguyen
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Essay
Every Single Noise In The World
On cataloging sound libraries.
3/13/2024
Kalli Mathios
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Hello World
Introducing a New Publication from Naive Yearly and Are.na
Eight pieces exploring the odd, quiet, and poetic web.
3/6/2024
Meg Miller
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Essay
The Wake and Other Ghost Stories
On the beach, in the bay, I recognize that haunted people are the only people we can be.
2/15/2024
Amirio Freeman
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Hello World
Our New Web Client, Sander, is Live
We are simply now the most current version of ourselves.
2/8/2024
Charles Broskoski
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Are.na Annual
These Hollow Renderings
How Bruce Lee’s posthumous image lives on in deepfakes and bad reproductions.
1/25/2024
Terry Nguyen
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Are.na Annual
Algorithmic Botany
Plants, fungi, and computer programming.
1/18/2024
Sean Catangui
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Essay
Here for the Wrong Reasons
On tuning your radar toward the things that you love.
12/29/2023
Charles Broskoski
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Are.na Annual
Base Notes
On the trace amounts of lewd odors found in our most luxurious perfumes.
12/13/2023
Sarah Chekfa
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Are.na Annual
Introducing the Are.na Annual 2024
This year’s anthology, themed “trace,” is now available.
12/6/2023
Meg Miller
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Gift Shop
An Unbound Book
Behind "A Catalogue of Simple Pleasures," a new card deck for the Gift Shop
11/2/2023
Alex Singh, Laurel Schwulst, Cab Broskoski, and Megan Pai
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Hello World
Introducing Sander, Our New Web Client
Our in-progress rebuild of the the entire web interface for Are.na is now available for premium members to test
11/1/2023
Charles Broskoski
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Essay
The Methods that Make Us
Unraveling an expansive definition of “protective style” that unites BIPOC ways of making
10/4/2023
Teah Khadijeh Brands
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It's not Business, it's Personal
An Interview with Malte Müller
On web design as architecture, understanding social systems, and making your own weird mistakes
9/6/2023
Charles Broskoski
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Notes on Blocks
On Elemental Computation
How do we define and explore the material relationships of computers and the environment?
8/22/2023
Jon Chen
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Are.na Annual
House-Wi-Fi-zation
The hidden costs of digitalization and its effects on those outside of labor protection laws
8/17/2023
Stephanie Marie Cedeño
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Essay
Toward a Non-human Lens
What does it mean to film the natural world through a non-human lens? Is such a thing possible?
8/1/2023
Jacob Lindgren
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Gift Shop
The “Gift Alchemy” of the Fava Bean
Companion–Platform on their “Vicia Faba” seed packet for the Are.na Gift Shop
7/26/2023
Lexi Visco, Calvin Rocchio, Meg Miller, and Laurel Schwulst
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Notes on Blocks
On Detail and the Sublime
Architecture has always been well equipped in manufacturing awe
7/19/2023
Mara Jovanović
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Notes on Blocks
Is This a Poem?
Poetry as visual arrangement, a thing to be looked at
7/6/2023
Sharon Neema
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Notes on Blocks
On Language and Time
“As words go forward, they also go backwards.”
6/28/2023
Nazlı Ercan
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It's not Business, it's Personal
An Interview with Emily Segal
The first in a new series about work that occupies the blurry boundary between what we do and who we are
6/22/2023
Charles Broskoski
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Conversation
Wikipedia as Sacred Text
“Once you stop thinking of Wikipedia as a passive consumption space, it’s really empowering.”
5/31/2023
Sharon Park and Carolyn Li-Madeo
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Notes on Blocks
Cloudscrying
On finding meaning in finding meaning in clouds
5/24/2023
Noa Mori
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Are.na Annual
Open call for Pitches for the 2024 Are.na Annual
This year’s theme is “trace”
5/8/2023
Meg Miller
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Conversation
With and Without a Firm Grasp, Part II
A conversation on the making of a Ramadan calendar.
4/24/2023
Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab and Forough Abadian
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Are.na Annual
The Instability of Stone
Dispatches from a tombstone designer
4/13/2023
Morgan Strahorn
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Gift Shop
The Forbidden Zone
Damon Zucconi presents: Carl Sagan’s “Diagram of All Space and Time” for the Are.na Gift Shop
3/30/2023
Damon Zucconi, Charles Broskoski, and Laurel Schwulst
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Essay
With and Without a Firm Grasp
On translation, interdependence, and the generosity of Ramadan calendars (Allahu Akram)
3/27/2023
Shiraz Abdullahi Gallab
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Are.na Annual
Wild Domesticity
The mind may wander but the body still has to live somewhere.
3/8/2023
Alice Yuan Zhang
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Notes on Blocks
Fantasy of Future and Past
On party planning, technology, and the collision of time
3/1/2023
Luiza Dale
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Notes on Blocks
On Culture
Localizing what culture means on an individual level
2/22/2023
Njari Anderson
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Are.na Annual
ASDFGHJKLKGJL
The keyboard smash remains an apt summary of fandom.
1/25/2023
Tiger Dingsun
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Notes on Blocks
In Defense of Forgetting
Reframing forgetting as healing, purposeful, and even eudaemonic.
1/12/2023
Jo Suk
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Essay
The PLEASURE of Handmade Fashion
Purpose, Longevity, Ethics, Asymmetry, Style, Utility, Refashion, Empowerment...
1/12/2023
Tiana Dueck
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Notes on Blocks
Make Me Your Manifesto
An investigation into the ever-evolving form.
1/5/2023
Natalee Ranii-Dropcho
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Are.na Annual
Introducing the Are.na Annual 2023
This year’s Are.na Annual, themed “service,” is now available.
12/15/2022
Meg Miller
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Essay
On Pricing
On upcoming changes to premium memberships
12/15/2022
Charles Broskoski
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Gift Shop
(Gift) Shop Talk
A conversation introducing the Are.na Gift Shop and our first product, How to Pass Time Inside This Room
10/25/2022
Laurel Schwulst, Charles Broskoski, and Meg Miller
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Are.na Annual
Where Boundary Breaks
Finding the fractures in game worlds offer a new perspective.
10/5/2022
Travess Smalley
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Notes on Blocks
On Sonder
We're made of the same stuff.
9/6/2022
Alex Tan
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Are.na Annual
Of All Their Possible Variations
How I learned to stop worrying and love the primordial ooze.
8/30/2022
Agnes Cameron
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Notes on Blocks
On Connection
What kinds of vulnerability do platforms encourage, and what kinds of expression do they limit?
8/17/2022
Leslie Liu
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Are.na Annual
On Object Freedom
“How are we going to build it if we don’t imagine it?”
8/4/2022
Evelyn Bi
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Conversation
It Became A Ritual
“I wanted us to leave something every day—it didn’t matter what it was.”
7/21/2022
Njari Dimario Anderson and Ariel Dong
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Notes on Blocks
Welcome to My Thousand Funerals
“To love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be.”
7/14/2022
Miaoye Que
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Are.na Annual
Chop and Screw Everything
If you choose another way, if you reject the clock, time will flow again.
7/6/2022
Roque Strew
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Are.na Annual
Open call for Pitches for the 2023 Are.na Annual
Submissions should take their root in a channel and fall loosely under the theme “service.”
6/23/2022
Meg Miller
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Notes on Blocks
On Listening to the Void
All of life’s greatest truths are wrapped in mystery.
6/23/2022
Alice Otieno
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Notes on Blocks
On Earth We Are Briefly Tender
A consistent space of refuge, a window into an elsewhere.
6/15/2022
Karl Rivera
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Notes on Blocks
I learnt colour but did not understand it
On exploring color through as many tinted lenses as possible.
6/6/2022
Tess Murdoch
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Are.na Annual
On Community Memory
In the ’70s and ’80s, the Community Memory Project explored how an information portal could be a shared experience.
5/19/2022
Mike Tully
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Essay
Notes on “Taste”
Jottings on an elusive term.
5/2/2022
Brie Wolfson
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Notes on Blocks
On Rejecting Narrative Identity
To be “against” narrative identity is to recognize that we’re unreliable narrators.
4/29/2022
Nico Chilla
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Notes on Blocks
On the Aesthetics of Progress
And the potential of a society organized around awe.
4/19/2022
Molly Mielke
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Essay
Poetry’s So Common Hardly Anyone Can Find It
More than a literary form, Poetry is the essence of inner feelings and thoughts as they relate to the external world.
4/4/2022
C.C.
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Essay
Portals to Elsewhere
Surfline provides live photo or webcam video feeds of surf breaks around the world.
3/7/2022
Lukas WinklerPrins
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Notes on Blocks
On Food Ontologies
And the different ways to organize and understand cooking and food.
1/14/2022
Agnes Cameron
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Are.na Annual
Introducing the Are.na Annual 2022
This year’s Are.na Annual, themed "portal," is now available.
12/15/2021
Meg Miller
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Essay
Tongue of the Computer
On Kamau Brathwaite’s Sycorax video style, the poet’s attempt “to put on the page what sound looked like.”
12/13/2021
Bryce Wilner
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Notes on Blocks
On Abolitionist Teaching Dreamscapes
And the artist’s role in building a world where we are all supported in our right to live joyously
11/9/2021
Sienna Kwami
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Notes on Blocks
On Making Sense of TikTok
And the ways the app parallels a kind of religious experience.
11/4/2021
Maya Man
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Essay
On Complexity
The search for fissures in systems and networks, towards parts-to-whole relations with ecological and biophysical processes.
9/7/2021
Casey Tang
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Essay
The Art of Tending to Oneself
Piecing together a framework for reflection from various practices, quotes, and ways of thinking.
8/24/2021
Alice Otieno
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Notes on Blocks
On Worlding
And lists, collections, diagrams, and configurations of discrete items that imply vast, continuous worlds.
8/17/2021
Tiger Dingsun
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Essay
On Motivation
A meditation on what keeps us going, on the occasion of Are.na’s 10th anniversary.
8/9/2021
Charles Broskoski
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Notes on Blocks
On Chess
Exploring the correlation between sports and art through an African American, abstract, playful, creative, tech, stylish, and instinctual perspective.
7/27/2021
Ephraim Johnson
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Essay
What Do People Do All Day?
On how things are made, who gets to make them, and how labor and time gets leveraged.
7/21/2021
Michael Bell-Smith
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Essay
Limitlessness and Limitations: Defining Dark Matters
An assemblage of knowledge established within our mutual histories
7/13/2021
American Artist and Zainab Aliyu
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Essay
Who Cares?
As long as computers are built to be in service of, the limits of their intelligence will always be the limits of their suzerain.
7/1/2021
Emma Rae Bruml Norton
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Are.na Annual
Open call for Pitches for the 2022 Are.na Annual
Submissions should take their root in an Are.na channel and fall loosely under the theme “portal.”
6/24/2021
Meg Miller
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Essay
Tenderness Shares A Root With Attention
How have tending and attention changed over time and across contexts, and what might that evolution teach us?
6/15/2021
Juliana Castro
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Notes on Blocks
On Mental Maps
"By cataloguing media relative to my fears, desires, and stresses, I’m able to trace my evolving reality."
5/25/2021
Cedric Payne
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Notes on Blocks
On Surface Duetting Space
An ongoing exploration on how surfaces interact with the spaces they inhabit.
5/18/2021
Rohan Chaurasia
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Notes on Blocks
On Fugue
Loops, cycles, knots, revolutions, and the development of a new game called Fugue.
5/11/2021
Francis Tseng
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Notes on Blocks
On Practice (In Theory)
“Some of the blocks are like bookmarks for lines of research that I want to delve more deeply into.”
5/5/2021
Dodi King
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Conversation
Webs of Care
Ingrid Raphael talks with Rae Dand and Onelson Nicholas about how care is activated when our needs are met
4/20/2021
Ingrid Raphael
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Essay
Place Holder
Ecology is a weird compass, and through attendance, we can learn to use it.
4/14/2021
Austin Wade Smith