Independent publication by Kanav Jain · Since 2024
The Crumple Zone
Essays on how power, technology, and institutions push human beings into the crumple zone.
Long-form essays about AI, disability, care, medicine, and the systems that offload their failures onto everyone underneath them.
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Media essays
Writing on the internet, journalism, narrative power, platforms, and how public meaning gets manufactured. 12 essays in this theme.
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Sprawling in the Age of Compression
On Ecosystems of Care and Regeneration that Grow in the Cracks
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Main Character Energy is Good Again
A closer look at Public Expression, Attention-Seeking Behavior, and the Right to be Unpredictable
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What is Autistic Hazing?
Internalized Oppression, Dangerous Ideologies, and Parent-Child Relationships
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Social Temperature: A New Measure of Masking Pressure
Characterizing the levels of social pressure exerted in various settings
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Consent Maintenance Pressure
Navigating Boundaries and Autonomy through Modifiable and Revokable Consent
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Writing for People Born Without Autism
Blending Seriousness with Wit for the Neurotypical Mind
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How I Hope to One Day Parent
how will I help my children grow into their authentic selves in a way that minimizes external pressures and dissonance?
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Existential Risk from AI is Ethnographic, Not Speculative
The most pressing dangers of AI are not confined to some future cataclysm; they are here now, embedded in the systems that shape our lives
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The Blurred Boundaries of Work and Play
if you thought attention-seeking strategies were dangerous in media, wait until you see how they get used in the workplace
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