Amari Low | CirclejourneySocieties of control and the failure of the taxonomic project.The categorisation of things stems from but a single aim: to organise very large numbers of things, or collections of data, into manageable…Mar 17, 2023Mar 17, 2023
Amari Low | CirclejourneyAll at once, and only once: a migrant, media graduate & science enthusiast’s take on a movie like…Migration is always a traumatic quantum branching. It’s something we’ve always known, though not necessarily in those words.May 7, 2022May 7, 2022
Amari Low | CirclejourneyLife is a train stationSo, you have this great, big train station. When you first arrive through its gates, you know you’re in for a lot of waiting. And very few…Apr 20, 2022Apr 20, 2022
Amari Low | CirclejourneyDeathOn the cusp of an old couch I find myself at the start of an awkward conversation with my sister that I always knew would come. She wants…Dec 11, 2020Dec 11, 2020
Amari Low | CirclejourneyI think I’ve finally composed my thoughts on RGS.“Home is where the heart is” — that’s a line that I’ve believed ever since five-year-old me heard it in a song from a long-forgotten…Dec 11, 2020Dec 11, 2020
Amari Low | CirclejourneyIs Minecraft the perfect interactive narrative?Interactive narratives are resource-intensive, in that they almost always require more writing than a linear narrative of comparable…Sep 20, 2019Sep 20, 2019
Amari Low | CirclejourneyHow to control a micro:bit remotely with your PCIn this tutorial, you will learn to remotely control a micro:bit from your PC using two micro:bits — one as a sender, which essentially…May 27, 20192May 27, 20192
Amari Low | CirclejourneyOn being a linguistic orphanI can’t help but to envy my bilingual friends. And I don’t mean bilingual in the way most mean it — that is, having conversational…Nov 4, 2016Nov 4, 2016
Amari Low | CirclejourneyThe indigenous as a vessel for the colonial fantasy: a critique of three paintingsThis essay is a juxtaposition three paintings: Adrien-Jean Le Mayeur’s Temple Festival in Bali, Lee Man Fong’s Balinese Life, and Seah Kim…Sep 24, 2016Sep 24, 2016
Amari Low | CirclejourneyIs it “jif” or “ghif”? Well, it’s both.GIFs, they’re everywhere these days: the new staple of social media communication. They are the animated images you see scattered liberally…Jul 15, 2016Jul 15, 2016