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Essays by Christopher Howard on language, culture, institutions, and technology.
Sign Language: A Close Reading
A close critical reading of David L. Johnson’s artwork Rule at the 2026 Whitney Biennial — thirty removed codes-of-conduct signs, one museum wall label, and the gap between what a curator tells you and what the object says.
What I Learned from 17 Events at New York Tech Week
What engineers building AI memory and archivists have in common, why “trust” needs a better definition, and what museums and libraries have to offer founders and developers.
An essay arguing that abiogenesis, not consciousness, is the more consequential threshold for evaluating the significance of artificial intelligence.