Essays

Theory and criticism of digital reading.

Vol. I

The Interface of Attention

Why modern web design is fundamentally hostile to deep reading, and how we can architect spaces that command sustained focus rather than fractured engagement.

Vol. II

The Death of the Sidebar

Tracing the evolution of secondary content layout from print broadsheets to the responsive web, and why the right-hand column failed us.

Vol. III

Typography as Rhetoric

Font choice is not merely an aesthetic decision; it is a structural argument. How serifs, weight, and measure dictate the perceived authority of a text.