Culture & Society

Literary magazine exploring history and ideas through themed essays, primary sources, and contemporary commentary.

Deep technical dives into computing history, telecom, and infrastructure. The stuff they don't teach you.

Guess when photos were taken. Historical photo dating game.

Philosophy jokes in comic form. Learn philosophy while laughing.

Wired founding editor on technology and culture. Cool Tools, 1000 True Fans, and more.

Venkatesh Rao's longform essays on organizations, technology, and thinking.

Celebrating interface design in science fiction films. Features The Fritzes awards for best believable and narrative interfaces, in-depth analysis of UI/UX in movies, and lessons for real-world interaction design. Created by Christopher Noessel, author of Make It So. Stop watching sci-fi. Start using it.

Art, design, and visual culture blog featuring contemporary artists and creative work. High-quality curation since 2010.

Meditations on technology, science, future, and life. Veteran tech writer and investor.

Open-source web archiving platform for creating high-fidelity, interactive archives of web content. Preserves the dynamic web as it's experienced.

Web archiving tool by Rhizome that lets you create interactive archives of web content. Preserves dynamic websites, social media, and complex web applications.

Documentary and resource about the demoscene, the underground computer art culture that pushes hardware to create real-time audiovisual art.