From signals to systems to stories

Synthesis, Aesthetics & Strategic Communications

Signals, systems, and stories diagram

Current Signals

A Social Island: dispatches from the neon surf. A curated feed of articulated thinking across technology, politics, media, ecology, and culture. This feed is meant, in some ways, to replicate the viral information sharing of social media, but in the form of an arpeggio.
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Recent Analysis

"The Hard Math of Housing" — exploring how Oregon's $33.02 housing wage connects to labor history and economic justice.
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The Institute for Artifact-ial Research and Development

A speculative archaeological project imagining our present moment through the lens of future researchers studying collapse and rebirth.
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