Long-form // Theory
Essays
Long-form arguments on decay, infrastructure and the materials of digital culture — written slowly, footnoted, and meant to be disagreed with.
Featured narrative28.09.2026 · 18 min
Aesthetics of collapse.
Examining the visual language of decay in digital mediums — how structural failures become the new foundation for generative art.
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28.09.2026 · 18 min
Aesthetics of collapse.
How structural failures become the new foundation for generative art.
By Marcus ChenRead →10.09.2026 · 14 min
The early web as raw material
The unstyled HTML of the 90s as a foundation for contemporary brutalism.
By Marcus ChenRead →22.08.2026 · 21 min
Tactical noise: the politics of the glitch
Breaking compression frames and audio containers as a method of disruption.
By Sarah VossRead →03.08.2026 · 16 min
Cold storage, warm ruins
Arctic data vaults, permafrost and the fantasy of an archive that never ages.
By Kenji SatoRead →18.07.2026 · 12 min
Listening to concrete
Infrasound, resonance and the bunker as an instrument.
By Elena RostovRead →