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Wade Smith Queer Servers and Feral Webs 2023
Queer Servers and Feral Webs
by Austin Wade Smith, 2023

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Auerbach (P)(E)(R)(S)(E)(V)(E)(R)(E) 2014
(P)(E)(R)(S)(E)(V)(E)(R)(E)
by Tauba Auerbach, 2014
Originally published by The Serving Library

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Bewersdorf Reversing the Flow of Internet Expansion 2014
Reversing the Flow of Internet Expansion
by Kevin Bewersdorf, 2014

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Butler & Delany In conversation at MIT 1998
Octavia Butler & Samuel Delany
in conversation at MIT with Henry Jenkins, 1998
Originally published on MIT's "media in transition" website

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⋱ Thanks to Kameelah Janan Rasheed for mentioning Octavia's use of "primitive hypertext" in this interview
Carpenter A Handmade Web 2015
A Handmade Web
by J.R. Carpenter, 2015

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Weiser & Brown The Coming Age of Calm Technology 1996
The Coming Age of Calm Technology
Mark Weiser & John Seely Brown, 1996
Composed at Xerox PARC

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⋱ Thanks to Casey Gollan & Victoria Sobel for including this in the reader they created for their 2017 talk in my class
Bewersdorf Spirit Surfing 2008
Spirit Surfing
Kevin Bewersdorf, 2008

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McHugh & Schwulst * When all my friends were on at once 2013
When all my friends are on at once
by Gene McHugh & Laurel Schwulst, 2013

with contributions from: Kari Altmann, Juan Amaya, Jeff Baij, Darja Bajagić, Boško Blagojević, Jennifer Chan, Ian Cheng, Tyler Coburn, Maja Cule, Nick DeMarco, Jake Dibeler, Alex Mackin Dolan, Aleksandra Domanović, Micaela Durand, Olivia Erlanger, BS Faulkner, Ed Fornieles, Lukas Geronimas, Julie Grosche, Ryan Whittier Hale, Travis Hallenbeck, Deanna Havas, Ann Hirsch, Joel Holmberg, Elizabeth Jaeger, Ilja Karilampi, Devin Kenny, Eugene Kotlyarenko, Stephen Lichty, Anya Liftig, Spencer Longo, Rachel Lord, Erica Magrey, Kelly McCafferty, Nicholas O'Brien, Filip Olszewski, Annie Pearlman, Rebecca Peel, Benjamin Phelan, Melissa Sachs, Laurel Schwulst, Sydney Shen, Hayley Aviva Silverman, Manuel Solano, Cameron Soren, Jasper Spicero, Amalia Ulman, Andrew Norman Wilson

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Schwulst & ... * The Life and Death of an Internet Onion 2021, 2020
The Life and Death of an Internet Onion
by Laurel Schwulst & many others, 2020 & 2021

2021 layers: Evelyn Bi, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Aidan Quinlan, June Yu, Leslie Liu, Brixton Sandhals, Julia Dann, Cammie Lee, mariah barden jones, Nikita Singareddy, Winnie Lim

2020 layers: Herdimas Anggara, Taichi Aritomo, Milo Bonacci, Jessica Flemming, Vicky Gebert, Tommy Huang, Harin Jung, Minhwan Kim, Monica Kim, Willis Kingery, David Knowles, Sunnie Liu, Julia Ma, Adam Moftah, Meg Miller, Mengyi Qian, Anna Sagström, Vlad Vykhodets, Betty Wang.

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Note: It is only "alive" for 5 weeks each summer. Read more here.
Schwulst & Cost * HTML Energy Podcast 2020
HTML Energy Podcast
by Laurel Schwulst, 2020

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⋱ Thanks to Elliott Cost for starting HTML Energy and letting me start a podcast
Schwulst * My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge ... 2018
My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
by Laurel Schwulst, 2018
Published on The Creative Independent

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⋱ Thanks to Meg Miller and Ayham Ghraowi for editing help on this!
Schwulst * Does Every Graphic Design Create a Parallel World? 2014
Does Every Graphic Design Create a Parallel World?
by Laurel Schwulst, 2014
Published in Art in America

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⋱ Thanks to Will Smith for editing
Schwulst * (+.+) & ‹*_*›: The Evolving Designs of Sulki Min 2017
(+.+) & ‹*_*›: The Evolving Designs of Sulki Min
by Laurel Schwulst, 2017
Published in Art in America

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Burkeman Stop Trying to Make the Web Beautiful 2014
Stop Trying to Make the Web Beautiful: I've Forgotten It Already
by Oliver Burkeman, 2014

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Butler Amnesty 2003
Amnesty
by Octavia Butler, 2003
from Bloodchild and Other Stories

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Cegłowski The Website Obesity Crisis 2015
The Website Obesity Crisis
Maciej Cegłowski, 2015
First presented at the Web Directions conference in Sydney

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Chan A Lawless Proposition 2011
A Lawless Proposition
Paul Chan, 2011

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Chan FAQ on Alternumerics 2001
FAQ on Alternumerics
Paul Chan, 2001

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Chan Publish to Perish 2012
Publish to Perish
a talk at the NY Art Book Fair
Paul Chan, 2012

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Dash The Web We Lost 2013
The Web We Lost
by Anil Dash, 2013

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Dunne & Raby Design Noir: The Placebo Project 2000
Design Noir: The Placebo Project
Dunne & Raby, 2000

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Ford Reboot The World 2016
Reboot the World
Paul Ford, 2016

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Ford When the Internet Asks You to Fill Out A Form, Do It 2016
When the Internet Asks You to Fill Out A Form, Do It
Paul Ford, 2016

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Ford ‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth 2020
‘Real’ Programming Is an Elitist Myth
Paul Ford, 2020

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⋱ Thanks to John Provencher for sharing this piece with me
Ford What is Code? 2015
What is Code?
by Paul Ford, 2015

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Galloway Jodi's Infrastructure 2016
Jodi's Infrastructure
Alexander Galloway, 2016

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Galloway Chapter 1. Physical Media ... from Protocol 2006
Chapter 1. Physical Media
Alexander Galloway, 2006
from Protocol

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⋱ Thanks to Dan Michaelson for assigning this to your "Networks & Transactions" class
Busta The internet didn't kill counterculture 2021
The internet didn't kill counterculture — you just won't find it on Instagram
by Caroline Busta, 2021

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Lepore The Cobweb 2015
The Cobweb: Can the Internet Be Archived?
by Jill Lepore, 2015

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Vancil An Abbreviated History of the Web 2017
An Abbreviated History of the Web
by Tara Vancil, 2017
Presented at peer to peer LA

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Vancil Imagine This: A Web Without Servers 2018
Imagine This: A Web Without Servers
by Tara Vancil, 2018
Presented at JSConf EU

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Gat Scroll. Skim. Stare. 2016
Scroll. Skim. Stare.
by Orit Gat, 2016
published in The White Review

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Gat Screen. Image. Text. 2012
Screen. Image. Text.
by Orit Gat, 2012
first published on Rhizome

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van den Dorpel * Programming as Writing 2019
"Programming as Writing" recorded video lecture
by Harm van den Dorpel, 2019
for Laurel Schwulst's Fall 2019 class at Yale

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Finnegan & Coklyat Alt-Text as Poetry Workbook 2020
Alt-Text as Poetry Workbook
by Bojana Coklyat & Shannon Finnegan, 2020

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Abbe The Internet’s Back-to-the-Land Movement 2019
The Internet’s Back-to-the-Land Movement
by Becca Abbe, 2019
published in the 2020 Are.na Annual

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Hejinian The Rejection of Closure 2000
The Rejection of Closure
by Lyn Hejinian, 2000 (based on a talk given in 1983)
from from The Language of Inquiry

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⋱ Thanks to Josh Minkus for sharing this piece with me
Rao Rediscovering Literacy 2012
Rediscovering Literacy
by Venkatesh Rao, 2012

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Rao Planning to Start, Planning to Finish 2019
Planning to Start, Planning to Finish
by Venkatesh Rao, 2019

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Mizumura On Translation 2004
ON TRANSLATION
by Minae Mizumura, 2004
published in The Serving Library

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⋱ Thanks to Kyla Arsadjaja for suggesting this reading in our Programming as Writing class at Yale, Fall 2018
Chimero The Web's Grain 2015
The Web's Grain
by Frank Chimero, 2015

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Chimero The Good Room 2018
The Good Room
by Frank Chimero, 2018

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Linked by Air Change over Time 2014
Change over Time
by Linked by Air, 2014

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Kaplan * A History of Internet Art 2015
A History of Internet Art
(as presented to Laurel Schwulst's class at Yale on February 8, 2015)
by Zachary Kaplan, 2015

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Knuth The Concept of a Meta-Font 1982
The Concept of a Meta-Font
by Donald Knuth, 1982
Published in Visible Language, XVII (Winter 1982)

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Sinister Letter & Spirit 2010
Letter & Spirit
Dexter Sinister, 2010

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Jones Once It's Typed, It's Published 1978
Once It's Typed, It's Published
by Christopher Jones, 1978

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⋱ Thanks to Dexter Sinister's PDF archive
Hoff Always Already Programming 2020
Always Already Programming
by Melanie Hoff, 2020

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Hoff & Schwulst * Conversation about Code Societies 2020
Conversation with Melanie Hoff about Code Societies
by Laurel Schwulst, 2020
Published on Fruitful School's Blog

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Mandeville The Future Will Be Technical 2018
The Future Will Be Technical
by Zach Mandeville, 2018

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Mandeville Basic HTML Competency Is the New Punk Folk Explosion! 2016
Basic HTML Competency Is the New Punk Folk Explosion!
by Zach Mandeville, 2016

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Simon Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World 1971
Designing Organizations for an Information-Rich World
by Herbert Simon, 1971

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Ghraowi & Schwulst * Dust and Food 2018
Dust and Food: A Spring 2018 Interactive Design Reader
by Ayham Ghraowi & Laurel Schwulst, 2018

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Guhong * Fruitful Presentation 2021
Fruitful Presentation
by Min Guhong, 2021
Made for Fruitful School

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YHCHI Interview Excerpts with Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries 2002
Interview Excerpts with Young Hae Chang Heavy Industries, 2002 –
Compiled by Laurel Schwulst

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Cost Gossips Talks 2021
Gossips Talks: behind the handmade web
by Eliott Cost, 2021

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Hammerman Gossip as Communication System 2017
Gossip as Communication System
by Sarah Hammerman, 2017
Published on the Are.na Blog

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Laric Versions 2010
Versions
by Oliver Laric, 2010

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Li Function as Narrative 2014
Function as Narrative
by Weiyi Li, 2014

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Lin Making the Memorial 2000
Making the Memorial
by Maya Lin, 2000

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Lialina Vernacular Web 2007, 2005
Vernacular Web
by Olia Lialina

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Lialina Prof Dr Style 2010
Prof Dr Style (Vernacular Web 3)
by Olia Lialina, 2010

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McHugh February 8, 2010 and July 23, 2010 ... from Post Internet 2010
February 8, 2010 and July 23, 2010
by Gene McHugh, 2010
from Post Internet

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Michaelson & ... Barn Raising: Building a Museum Web Site Using Custom Wiki Tools 2010
Barn Raising: Building a Museum Web Site Using Custom Wiki Tools
by Dina Helal (Whitney Museum of American Art), Brad Henslee (Whitney Museum of American Art) and Dan Michaelson (Linked by Air, USA), 2010

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Michaelson & Balkin Sometimes it looks like a duck, sometimes it looks like a rabbit ... 2012
Sometimes it looks like a duck, sometimes it looks like a rabbit: Governance structures in graphic design, decorative form in law, and schools in the public sphere
Dan Michaelson as interviewed by Jeff Balkin, 2012
produced for Grafik Magazine 22

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Minard Internet Archive 2013
Internet Archive
by Jonathan Minard, 2013
Project supported by Eyebeam

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Orlean Man and Machine: Playing Games on the Internet 2014
Man and Machine: Playing Games on the Internet
by Susan Orlean, 2014

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Queneau Exercises in Style (Preface and excerpts) 1947
Exercises in Style (Preface and excerpts)
Raymond Queneau, 1947
Translated into English by Barbara Wright

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Steyerl In Defense of the Poor Image 2009
In Defense of the Poor Image>
Hito Steyerl, 2009

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Warde The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible 1932
The Crystal Goblet, or Printing Should Be Invisible
Beatrice Warde, 1932, 1955

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Yago On Ketamine and Added Value 2017
On Ketamine and Added Value
Dena Yago, 2017

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Guhong & Schwulst On introducing your company 2019
On introducing your company: CEO and editor Min Guhong on how a company can be a therapeutic tool for living, the complex appeal of products, the guiding quality of names, and embracing conventions to explore modern life.
by Laurel Schwulst, 2019
Published on The Creative Independent

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Broskoski & Schwulst On self-discovery that happens upon revisiting things ... 2017
Charles Broskoski on self-discovery that happens upon revisiting things you’ve accumulated over time
by Laurel Schwulst, 2017
Published on The Creative Independent

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Brander All you need is links 2022
All you need is links
by Gordon Brander, 2022

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TCI & Are.na How do you use the internet mindfully? 2018
How do you use the internet mindfully?
by The Creative Independent & Are.na, 2018
Edited by Willa Koerner & designed by Elliott Cost

With essays from: Caroline Sinders, Édouard U., Fei Liu, Ida C. Benedetto, Ingrid Burrington, Jenny Odell, Jon Gacnik, Laurel Schwulst, Lucy Siyao Liu, Max Fowler, Pirijan Ketheswaran

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Artist Black Gooey Universe 2018
BLACK GOOEY UNIVERSE
by American Artist, 2018

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Veltman What shape is the internet? 2015
What Shape is the Internet?
by Noah Veltman, 2015

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