I is for Internet Service Provider (ISP)
as 2024 is winding down so shall i. in the resounding words of nap bishop tricia hersey, “we will rest.” this is my last issue of New Terms & Conditions for...
W is for Window
a window is a framed opening or area on a display screen for viewing visual information. windows give us options for what and how to see. windows as portals...
C is for Computer
computer. compute. computing. computing computer computes. i’ve come to love the word computer. the press followed by the pursing of the lips, and —...
L is for Local Area Network (LAN)
By definition a local area network (LAN) is a “collection of devices connected together in one physical location, such as a building, office, or home. A LAN...
R is for Rewild
welcome back into this space with me. i chose to honor (Black) August with a season of rest away from the choreographed dance between writing New Terms &...
Notes on Zora Neale Hurston*
i will be pausing New Terms & Conditions for the month of august to give myself more breathe in my practice to read, research, and dream inside of the anti-...
W is for Web
when i think of the internet, i imagine it as the cables, wires, and tubes routing our communications, and the black screens filled with green text on the...
Notes on Refusal & Repair*
homepage for abc glossary Your portal to join me in this study now has a door. the abc questionnaire is a community submission form with a set of meditative...
F is for Farm
you’re on an open road. driving through countryside. fields of green dotted with purple, pink, and yellow go past where your eye can see. your destination...
S is for Server
i began to write this issue from central park, land of the Lenape, then and now, and the site of the forced removal of free Black landowners, in what was...
Notes on an Ecological Approach*
Revealing the world we need and deserve within the world we have is an everyday practice of unlearning what we think we know and becoming present to how the...
Notes on Plant Life*
introducing notes*, a segment inside of new terms & conditions to live within the footnotes and the archives that feed this study, through/with alternative...
E is for Electronic Colonialism
this issue of New Terms & Conditions is dedicated to the Kenyan workers, the invisible hands of artificial intelligence, subject to labor abuse and emotional...
B is for Bug
when we encounter bugs we often associate them with disruption to the order of things. they are a reminder that our systems are prone to failure and can...
D is for Domain
Domain naming is the social, situated, and environmental practice of "naming as placemaking" on the internet, recognizing the power in words to shape worlds...
C is for Cloud
cloud: of or pertaining to water vapor, an invisible gas that turns into liquid water droplets forming tiny particles that are floating in the air. cloud: as...
U is for User
i have this memory of being in Washington, DC on George Washington University’s campus as a grad student. it was such a stark campus environment after being...
I is for Internet
it’s only right that a study of e-colonialism begin with an exploration of what is the internet as a first glossary entry. how can we trace our connections?...
Preface: Defining New Terms & Conditions
New Terms & Conditions is the sharing of my curiosity in when did the internet begin to exist in everything — material and immaterial — and an invitation to...