Jonathan Zong

Here, a few readings

that have influenced my work and

my thoughts.

I hope you enjoy.

Last updated October 2019

You Think You Want Media Literacy… Do You? — danah boyd
Going to Work in Mommy's Basement — Sarah Sharma
Why Wholesome Memes Might be our Best Hope Against the Nazis — Chris Peterson
Of Being Numerous — Natasha Lennard
Sick of Myself — Rob Horning
Attention Brokers — Tim Wu
Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity, and Branding in the Social Media Age — Alice Marwick
The Secret Lives of Tumblr Teens — Elspeth Reeve
Welcome to Airspace — Kyle Chayka
Sharing is Tables: Furniture for Digital Labor — Shannon Mattern
Media Prophylaxis: Night Modes and the Politics of Preventing Harm — Dylan Mulvin
Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear — Ted Chiang

Toward Embodied Virtuality — N. Katherine Hayles
The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media — John Durham Peters
Notes on the Synthesis of Form — Christopher Alexander
In Defense of the Poor Image — Hito Steyerl
The Colors We See — Umberto Eco
Why Bother — Angie Keefer
Why Do Typewriters Go Click? — Vilém Flusser
Form as Social Commitment — Umberto Eco
The Virile Dance — José Limón

Does Abstraction Belong to White People? — Miguel Gutierrez
Fuck Content — Michael Rock
Design as Art — Bruno Munari
Eleven Flavors Of Frustration — Bennett Foddy
Navigating Stuckness — Jonathan Harris
In Discussion with Andy Cameron — Jonathan Harris
Designing in the Borderlands — Frank Chimero
Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming — Anthony Dunne & Fiona Raby
How to Make Research-driven Art — Caroline Sinders

Torching the Modern-Day Library of Alexandria — James Somers
In a Perpetual Present — Erika Hayasaki
Watching TV on the beach, a lost art — Andrew Marino
Why Am I Obsessed With a Cellphone Game About Collecting Cats? — Ryan Bradley
The Useless Machine — Mark O’Connell
Secret Skin — Michael Chabon
Ted Chiang’s Soulful Science Fiction — Joshua Rothman

The Interface Effect — Alexander Galloway
Street View — Dan Michaelson
User Interface: A Personal View — Alan Kay
Design Interface — Gianni Barbacetto
The Interface Experience — Kimon Keramidas
The big idea is "messaging" — Alan Kay

A throw of the dice will never abolish chance — Stéphane Mallarmé
The Ecstasy of Influence: A Plagiarism — Jonathan Lethem
I am a handle — Rob Giampietro

On Meta-Design and Algorithmic Design Systems — Rune Madsen
Analyzing 50k fonts using deep neural networks — Erik Bernhardsson
LETTER & SPIRIT — Dexter Sinister