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Colin Dickey

Un-unmasking

The Fight Over Outdoor Masking Is Now About Power and a Nostalgia for Hierarchy

6 min readMay 29, 2021

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Colin Dickey

Technical Literacy, Technically Literate, and SM-102

The Cranks Are Back and They’re Not Wearing Masks

5 min readMay 22, 2021

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Technical Literacy, Technically Literate, and SM-102

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Colin Dickey

The Unexplained Phenomena Is Real!

Just Because It’s Unidentified Doesn’t Mean It’s an Alien Spacecraft

5 min readMay 17, 2021

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Colin Dickey

On Confirmation Bias

When You Get the Answer You’re Looking for, Hang Up

4 min readMay 7, 2021

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Colin Dickey

The Anonymous Voice of the Age

Italo Calvino Reflects on the Sea of Stories

4 min readApr 30, 2021

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The Anonymous Voice of the Age

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Colin Dickey

Technical Estrangement and the Ersatz Uncanny

How Infrastructure, Brought to Light, Becomes Nefarious

6 min readApr 28, 2021

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Technical Estrangement and the Ersatz Uncanny

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Colin Dickey

Getting to “After”

There is something noble in the love of the dead.

6 min readApr 16, 2021

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The Sphinx at Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massaschusetts

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Colin Dickey

On Hearing News of Prince Philip’s Death During the Derek Chauvin Trial

Public Displays of Grief and the Politics of Mourning

4 min readApr 10, 2021

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On Hearing News of Prince Philip’s Death During the Derek Chauvin Trial

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Colin Dickey

On Restarting: Time on the clock, Time of the Mind and Micro-Rituals

So this is how the world is beginning again: not with a bang, but with a series of whimpers.

6 min readMar 30, 2021

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On Restarting: Time on the clock, Time of the Mind and Micro-Rituals

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Colin Dickey

The Terrifying Allure of Nonhuman Cinema

When the Drama of Human Life Is Secondary to the Plot

7 min readMar 24, 2021

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The Terrifying Allure of Nonhuman Cinema

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Colin Dickey

Colin Dickey

Failed histories, histories of failure. Author of four books: The Unidentified, Ghostland, Afterlives of the Saints, and Cranioklepty.

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