Moral Ecosystems: My Big Idea

March 12, 2024

It’s said that thinkers are either foxes and hedgehogs. The fox knows many things, and the hedgehog knows one big thing. Ever since I heard about this I’ve...

Reflections on 2023

December 30, 2023

Dream Season It is dream season at Toby's Door—December—my favorite. In the cold and the still, everything becomes clearer and more perceptible. The blue...

Subject Matter #20: American Psychology

October 13, 2023

Hi everyone, it's Toby, back with your favorite blog "Subpixel Space." I've got a new post for you, which is mostly a bunch of questions about psychology...

Reflections on 2021

December 31, 2021

Seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons, seasons. You laugh when you cry. You become another person. You think you could die...

Subject Matter 19: Beings in Network Space

August 21, 2020

This morning I woke to some kind of flute music lifting into my window from inside the alley. The notes played were in a major scale, between each simple...

Subject Matter 18: 2020 Spring Update

June 11, 2020

Approaching the solstice, filled with radiant energy and stretching my hand toward the warmth of the ever-giving sun... I've been working on a new tool with...

Subject Matter 17: Premonition

March 30, 2020

New Essay (Collab) These days, we are taking no time off from the business of surviving. But we are not only nesting, caring, late-wintering, burrowing,...

Subject Matter 16: 2020 Winter Update

February 17, 2020

Hello and a belated happy new year. Contents: 1. Business Update 2. New Writing 3. Other After I left Underdog.io last year, I worked on a bunch of different...

Subject Matter 15: 3 Cuts on Brands

December 16, 2019

Over the weekend, I put together a short video walkthrough of 3 ways that I currently think about brands: as consensus systems, as sites of conflict, and as...

Subject Matter 14: Other Internet, Online Education

October 16, 2019

A small update from Subpixel Space and Other Internet. We're currently exploring alternative education at Other Internet, our research and strategy...

Subject Matter 13: Everything Must Change

July 10, 2019

Update: Residency, New Essay, New Feelings Greetings from Berlin, where I'll be for the rest of the summer. I'm lucky to be here among friends and meeting...

Reflections on 2018

January 4, 2019

In the days leading up to the new year, I saw a lot of myth, religion, and spirituality on the twitter timeline. It seems that for you, like me, myth is on...

Subject Matter 12: Diminishing Marginal Aesthetic Value

September 18, 2018

A small update: I published a new report on Friday, which discusses how zero marginal cost distribution poses a challenge to the value of aesthetic...

Subject Matter 11: Post-Everything, Pre-Everything Else

August 14, 2018

The first half of 2018 has been full of interesting developments, and deserves commemorations. We published two essays, did a talk, worked on some soon-to-...

Reflections on 2017

January 6, 2018

The overstimulated state I’ve been experiencing lately is hard to describe in regular emotional terminology. The ones that come to mind feel weird and...

Subject Matter 10: Cults, Meaning, and Travel Log

November 20, 2017

I spent October traveling in Hong Kong, much of this time with @diversifiedbonds. We encountered a whole host of fascinating places, brilliant people, and...

Toby waxes about critique, reviews Toro Y Moi's new album

July 15, 2017

Lately the critique seems to have fallen out of favor. Then again, criticality has never been popular to begin with—someone is always on its receiving end....

Subject Matter 9: Cybernetics & Magic

May 9, 2017

Contents: the next Mondays event and a brief written exploration. Mondays: The Glass Bead Game, May 15, 2017, 6:30pm EST In which a dialectic game will be...

Subject Matter 8: On Wearing Black

February 10, 2017

On Wearing Black Sarah Perry’s recent essay, Tendrils of Messes in our Brains, explores the human perception of mess. Mess emerges from the juxtaposition of...

Subject Matter 7: Twilit Cities

January 9, 2017

Collection: Twilit Cities We are happy to present a curated collection of gifs to satisfy your brooding cyberpunk needs. These gifs were sourced from across...

Subpixel Space Reflects on 2016

January 1, 2017

Happy New Year to friends and followers. This message will detail a brief roundup of notable events that happened in and around Subpixel Space in 2016, and...

Subject Matter 6: Thought-Action Loops

October 2, 2016

I returned from post-lecture drinks to my apartment on Thursday and immediately saw the pair of pants I had draped over a chair to dry (Thursday was laundry...

Subject Matter from Subpixel Space: 5

September 25, 2016

.. Consider a broader version of the Wikipedia definition of "space," sampled above, and one observes that space has been a recurring topic of 2016. We have...

Subject Matter 4

September 18, 2016

Subject Matter Network Alec Seymour's first solo show Proper Care of the Peace Lily, a work of his own singular auteurship, is going up in a week and a half....

Inversions

September 11, 2016

An event on Monday, September 12th in NYC is announced in this email. .. If you live New York City, you may have seen this poster in the subway: A curious...

A Topology of 201X Aesthetics

August 28, 2016

An event on Monday, August 29th in NYC is announced at the bottom of this email. Starting with Malte Muller's website electricgecko, this year I began to...

Subject Matter from Subpixel Space

August 16, 2016

Subject Matter is a new and experimental "side project" of Subpixel Space. My information intake greatly outpaces my writing output, and I've been seeking a...