SCALE Multiplier
Nine essays on scales of writing—from microscopic to enormous. Read each chapter below.
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Announcing the Scale ⚖️ "Multiplier" NFT airdrop June 30
June 10, 2021
SCALE Multiplier—nine essays on scales of writing from editors and contributors—is freely readable on the web. The 2021 collectible edition minted 88 limited-edition NFT keys; the announcement below records how that release was assembled and distributed.
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Editors — Introduction
"Probably this has always been the case: once an action is recounted, for intransitive ends, and no longer in order to act directly upon reality — that is, finally external to any function but the…
MoreIn 1937, Alan Turing published “On Computable Numbers”. He proposed inventing a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence. Claude Shannon, an MIT graduate student,…
Isaiah Sellers — 37.96.21.
In 1937, Alan Turing published “On Computable Numbers”. He proposed inventing a single machine which can be used to compute any computable sequence. Claude Shannon, an MIT graduate student,…
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Niki Selken — It's an Emoji Story 👩🏼💻
I was a dyslexic kid who grew up with a love for visual art, not necessarily because I was great at it or my family was particularly cultured, but simply because images were legible to me. The…
MoreIn his famous essay 'Why I Write' George Orwell notes that perhaps at the age of five or six, he knew that he should be a writer when he grows up. According to Orwell, he was lonely as a child, he…
Jey Sushil — I am what I write...
In his famous essay 'Why I Write' George Orwell notes that perhaps at the age of five or six, he knew that he should be a writer when he grows up. According to Orwell, he was lonely as a child, he…
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Jon Phillips — Setting The Table
This is a factual accounting of the physical object created for The Table.
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Mee Jey — I always wanted to be an artist
Mee Jey is an Indian artist based in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA. She is co-founder of Artologue, an art-travel project co-founded with Jey Sushil.
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Paul Guzzardo — Ai China Chica
Ai China Chica is one of eight storyboards developed for two Buenos Aires architectural graduate workshops and UNESCO presentations in France, Lithuania, and Sweden.
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Clément Renaud — Knowledge E.T.C.
The attempt of modern science to create disciplines has lead to a wealth of specific, domain-driven knowledge. Great advances have been reached through the pursuit of the specifics. Technology, as a…
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Nicolas Nova — Cyborg Mountains of Switzerland
Stretching approximately 1,200 km across eight countries (France, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Germany, and Slovenia), the Alps are the most extensive mountain range system of…
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Christopher Adams — The Artist and the Exhibition in the Canny Valley
This is a series of digital photographs interpreted with Canny edge detection and centerline autotrace software, of Jun Yang's "The Artist, his Collaborators, their Exhibition, and three Venues" at…
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