Anti-Alias

Whether you flatten the world into binaries, or allow for nuance, complexity, and blurry edges.

Simon Adler and the Crowdsourced Doomsday List

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Anti-Alias is about resisting the urge to flatten the world into simple binaries and allowing for complexity instead. Simon Adler went into this project already suspicious of grand unified narratives — the idea that America has one mood, one identity. But as he gathered answers, he kept Anti-Alias running: he didn't force the responses into a tidy conclusion, and he didn't pretend the disagreements weren't real. Jill Lepore said burn the institutions. Arlo Iron Cloud agreed. Sharony Greene wanted a jazz recording. And Simon held all of it without forcing a resolution.