Hi, I’m Elle GriffinEvery season I research one topic—autonomous cities, collective ownership of corporations, an analog future in the age of AI. Free subscribers get some essays. Paid subscribers get every essay and the digital or print pamphlet.
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Let's not moralize Botox
On the human body as an aesthetic pursuit. And the technologies that were always going to advance it.
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Dana Pharant Sometimes I feel like you are in my head lol
This past couple of weeks i have been deep down the rabbit hole of anti-aging treatments and home device...
Utopian worldbuilding in Chinese fantasy series
C-dramas by and for women are re-writing China's past... and future.
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Lynn Berry Apologies for the autocorrect Elle
MacKenzie Scott should have gotten Kindle in the divorce
But she can still build the e-book future we’ve been waiting for. Here's an open letter to the author.
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Future-spective Hell yeah. Elle, she should hire you to run this for her.
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