Volume I, Issue I: Pattern Machines

In our inaugural issue of original essays, fiction, poetry, and art, we explore how technology impacts the human condition. 

Pattern Machines examines how endless streams of information can lead to individualized forms of insanity and dislocation, the ways in which social media is not merely reflecting the world but remaking it in its own image, how search trends can reveal societal pathologies, and much, much more.

Print editions of Issue 1 are now sold out, but you can purchase a .pdf edition on our web store.

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