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The Systems Interview the Operator
Exposing some of the wiring
Jun 12
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Marcel
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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
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Marcel
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The Nervous System of the Sea
An interview with Tyler Temple of Pollentia
May 26
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SXSW Field Log // Day 4: The Last Line
Mar 16
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Marcel
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SXSW Field Log // Day 1: The Interface Is the Intervention
Mar 13
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Marcel
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Agents, Cultureware, and the Human Network Behind the Machine Network
Dec 2, 2025
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Marcel
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SXSW Field Log // Day 2: The Handover State Emerges
Mar 14
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Marcel
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SXSW Field Log // Day 6: What the Format Can’t Hold
Mar 18
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Marcel
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You're Doing Too Much. Design as Infrastucture
Jan 20
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Marcel
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Design Practice
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SXSW Press Node Activated
Signal+Static to cover SXSW Innovation conference in ATX, March 2026
Feb 25
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Marcel
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SXSW Field Log // Day 1: The Interface Is the Intervention
Three sessions on cognition, infrastructure, and the metabolic cost of offloading.
Mar 13
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Marcel
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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
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Marcel
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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
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Marcel
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You're Doing Too Much. Design as Infrastucture
Lessons on Human Infrastructure from Erik Spiekermann
Jan 20
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Marcel
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Cyborg Theory
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SXSW Field Log // Day 7: Human in Which Loop?
Cybernetics arrived overtly. Fifty years of Apple, one morning of Maeda, and Carl Pei’s bet that care is still the differentiator.
Mar 19
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Marcel
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Agents, Cultureware, and the Human Network Behind the Machine Network
Longform edition for Signal+Static paid readers
Dec 2, 2025
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Marcel
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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
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Marcel
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Luke's Hand: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep
On Artificial Identity, Empathy Prosthetics, and the Dreaming Machine
Aug 9, 2025
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Marcel
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Glossary from the Loop
Design terms for systems, signals, bodies, and behaviors (Updated as the loop evolves.)
Jul 19, 2025
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Marcel
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Luke's Hand: Blade Runner
Watching Blade Runner with Cyborg Eyes
Jun 13, 2025
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Marcel
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