ROUGH TYPE

Rough Type has had a twenty-year run.

Who’s the dummy?

The poppies come out every March in Walker Canyon, an environmentally sensitive spot in the Temescal Mountains seventy miles southeast of Los Angeles, but the show they put on in early 2019 was something special.

I’m not tearing up over Elon Musk’s termination, with extreme prejudice, of Twitter.

At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be much to connect Meta’s $500 Quest 3 face strap-on for gamer-proles with Apple’s $3,500 Vision Pro face tiara for elite beings of a hypothetical nature, but the devices do share one important thing in common: redun…

“Liquid Death”: Whenever the metaverse gets rebranded into something more consumable, I would suggest that for its new name.

Leo Marx has died, at the mighty age of 102.

Through deep-learning algorithms, computers are learning to simulate us — the way we look, the way we speak, the way we move, the words we use.

The metaverse promises to bring us an abundance of realities.

In the fall of 1917, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, now in middle age and having twice had marriage proposals turned down, first by his great love Maud Gonne and next by Gonne’s daughter Iseult, offered his hand to a well-off young Englishwoman named

In 1987, two years before James Beniger wrote The Control Revolution, his seminal study of the role information systems play in society, he published an article called “Personalization of Mass Media and the Growth of Pseudo-Community” in the journal Commu…

In “Beautiful Lies: The Art of the Deep Fake,” an essay in the Los Angeles Review of Books, I examine the rise and ramifications of deep fakes through a review of two books, photographer Jonas Bendiksen‘s The Book of Veles and mathematician Noah Giansirac…