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SXSW Press Node Activated

Signal+Static to cover SXSW Innovation conference in ATX, March 2026

Feb 25 • Marcel

SXSW Field Log // Day 1: The Interface Is the Intervention

Three sessions on cognition, infrastructure, and the metabolic cost of offloading.

Mar 13 • Marcel

SXSW Field Log // Day 2: The Handover State Emerges

Companion, tool, god, mother. AI identity is still unsettled while the grid and orbital layer are already mid-transfer.

Mar 14 • Marcel

SXSW Field Log // Day 3: The Rewrite Layer

Amy Webb tracked the storm. MIT logged the threshold breaches. By afternoon, the question was who authors the defaults.

Mar 15 • Marcel

You're Doing Too Much. Design as Infrastucture

Lessons on Human Infrastructure from Erik Spiekermann

Jan 20 • Marcel

Cyborg Theory

Agents, Cultureware, and the Human Network Behind the Machine Network

Longform edition for Signal+Static paid readers

Dec 2, 2025 • Marcel

Cyborg - the word that left earth.

How a space medicine footnote became a theory, a life support system, an icon and us.

Oct 2, 2025 • Marcel

Luke's Hand: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep

On Artificial Identity, Empathy Prosthetics, and the Dreaming Machine

Aug 9, 2025 • Marcel

Glossary from the Loop

Design terms for systems, signals, bodies, and behaviors (Updated as the loop evolves.)

Jul 19, 2025 • Marcel

Luke's Hand: Blade Runner

Watching Blade Runner with Cyborg Eyes

Jun 13, 2025 • Marcel

The Cyborgs Aren’t Coming

They're Already Here: Design, Identity, and the Already-Cyborg Condition

Jun 5, 2025 • Marcel

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