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…
The Prepared Archive • 5 min read 2020-06-29 Notes, 2020-06-29. Last week I implemented the first tentative steps towards reopening The Prepared’s workshop - steps that are…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2020-06-22 Notes, 2020-06-22. It’s Kane again, guest editing from sunny San Francisco. Things feel more uncertain than ever, but there’…
The Prepared Archive • 3 min read 2020-06-15 Thanks to everyone who took us up on our donation matching offer from last week; together we donated $20k in…
The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2020-06-08 Notes, 2020-06-08. On an average week this newsletter is opened by between three and five thousand people. A well-performing link…
The Prepared Archive • 4 min read 2020-06-01 Notes, 2020-06-01. I support the demonstrations and oppose both racism and the American tendency towards violent policing. -SW --- The…