The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2020-09-14 Notes, 2020-09-14. As if this year hasn’t been difficult enough, the sky has turned red in my home state…
The Prepared Archive • 6 min read 2020-09-07 Notes, 2020-09-07. Earlier this year, a temporary wastewater pipe sat atop a usually-busy street near where Anna lives in Wellington,…
The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2020-08-31 Notes, 2020-08-31. Top of the Monday to you. Chuma here. Unequal parts engineer, researcher, and writer. I think about the…
The Prepared Archive • 5 min read 2020-08-17 Why are iPhone 5c cases, in all of their platonic perfection, covered with pencil marks?…
Feature • 17 min read Production Marks Why are iPhone 5c cases, in all of their platonic perfection, covered with pencil marks? My class on media archaeology…
The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2020-08-10 Notes, 2020-08-10. I’m loving all the spaceflight activity happening this summer during our brief opportunity every two years to…
The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2020-07-27 Flying houses, supersonic greenwashing, and X-ray inspections of counterfeit Lightning-to-headphone adapters.…
The Prepared Archive • 5 min read 2020-07-20 Pizza boxes, when stainless steel rusts, and a fantastic tour of the Playstation factory.…
The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2020-07-13 Notes, 2020-07-13. Very abruptly in the last 2 weeks I packed up and moved from Toronto to Montreal to work…
The Prepared Archive • 5 min read 2020-07-06 Notes, 2020-07-06. Back in April I mentioned that Uline CEO Liz Uilein, a top Trump donor, had pushed her employees…