Dissing Information
The New York Times just published a very personal essay I wrote. After seeing a video from Gaza of Dr. Ali Alhaj Salem, standing over incubators without electricity, without formula, without breast milk, I’ve thought a lot about NICUs, how they differ, and how they reflect on humanity. Fourteen years ago, my son was born … Continue reading A Tale of Two NICUs @ New York Times
I just published a piece I’ve been struggling to write for months:Unlearning Helplessness: Violence and the Collapse of Political Imagination It comes from a place of deep frustration—with the violence, with the paralysis, with how easy it’s become to accept the unacceptable. We’re stuck in survival mode. Fight, flight, freeze. Again and again. This isn’t … Continue reading Stuck Between Fight, Flight, and Freeze
MapFutur.es is an online map that gathers fragments of imagined futures: “future screenshots”—speculative visions shaped as tweets, chats, maps, protest signs, or headlines. They’re not predictions. They’re provocations. They ask: what might still be possible? What futures are already taking shape in how we grieve, resist, and imagine? The Futures Map is nonlinear. It’s organized … Continue reading Launching: MapFutur.es — a map of Future Screenshots
In the aftermath of October 7th, the future between the river and the sea has felt increasingly illegible—narrowed by grief, fear, and polarized certainties. Future Screenshots is a response to that closing horizon. It’s an invitation to imagine again. The project collects speculative glimpses into possible futures—captured as if from social media, protest signs, maps, … Continue reading On Future Screenshots and Political Imagination [article]
Over on UX Collective, I recently wrote about something deceptively mundane: the rage click. You know the move — that frantic, repeated tapping on a button or link that just won’t do what it promised to. It might seem like a small moment, a minor user error, a frustration spike. But when you zoom in, … Continue reading Rage Clicks are Microdoses of Pure Horror [Essay]
Proud to announce my collaboration with Daniel Howe and Helen Nissenbaum: AdNauseam—a browser add-on that obfuscate data mining by also ‘clicking’ every blocked ad. Continue reading Adnauseam—Clicking Ads So You Don’t Have To
Conflict of Interface (eng) from Mushon Zer-Aviv Originally presented at The Politics of Interface and Obfuscation a special event at Eyebeam, NYC on March 11th, 2014, together with Helen Nissenbaum (NYU) and moderated by Michael Connor (Rhizome). The internet, once associated with openness and decentralization, is increasingly understood in terms of control exerted by government … Continue reading Slides for my “Conflict of Interface” talk at Eyebeam
Following my Disinformation Visualization workshop at the Info Activism Camp, the wonderful people at the Tactical Tech Collective have invited me to publish these ideas as an essay on their site. I am cross-posting the opening here and encourage you to read the whole thing on the Visualizing Advocacy site (and get their wonderful book … Continue reading Disinformation Visualization: How to lie with datavis (the essay)
Israel’s greatest political uprising in recent years is fighting to “not be political”. Why? And would that hurt it’s chances of social change? In the last week we’ve seen the rise of a popular revolt against the housing bubble. It started as a simple Facebook event in Tel Aviv but within days multiple tent cities … Continue reading Tel Aviv is on fire, what’s cooking?
It’s not a Twitter, Facebook or YouTube revolution. It’s a revolution of hungry oppressed people who had enough. They didn’t need Wikileaks to tell them how corrupt their government is. It was a burning man, burnt by his misery and oppression that got people out to the streets. Through the past three weeks the coverage … Continue reading We only care for Tunisians if they validate our techno-fetish
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