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Eli Zeger
Writer, editor, and musician
About
Selected Writing
Etc.
Owner’s Remorse
, on techno-optimism on the left (Strange Matters, 2024) ➙ This essay was republished
by the Platform Cooperativism Consortium
What’s Next for Music Criticism?
, on the album review after Pitchfork (Boston Review, 2024)
Who Will Own the Internet? Hopefully, Community
, on Exit to Community (New Society, 2023)
Build Back Blockchain
, on Web3’s democracy problem and how to fix it (Zora Zine, 2023)
Appetite for Redistribution
, on Budgeting for All (Zora Zine, 2022)
How To Make Voting More Truly Representative
, on quadratic voting and quadratic funding (Noema, 2022)
Alt Rock by Algorithm
, on indie pop “internet muzak” (Frieze, 2020)
How Corporations Try To Be More Human Than Humans
, on corporate personhood and brand identity (Current Affairs, 2020)
This is What Insanity Sounds Like
, on the curiously self-tortured legacy of post-grunge music (The Baffler, 2019)
Broken Homes
, on mixed media artist Adia Millett (Art in America, 2019)
Binky Listens
, on the classical music roots of an Arthur meme (Van Magazine, 2018)
The Evolution of Hocketing
, on the origins of this complex musical technique (Red Bull Music Academy Daily, 2018)
Reckoning with Ambiguity
, on Gregory Crewdson’s photograph “Untitled (Beer Dream)” (Hazlitt, 2017)
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LOREM IPSUM