Jordan Matthiass

Writer, developer, and former philosopher. Born Circleville, Ohio. Based in Sweden.

I write about how technology reshapes human experience, and build small apps that push back. Email.

Apps

• Simple Art Scanner
• Simple Film Search

Essays

• 2026 — Three Simple Apps, or: Am I a Developer Now?
• 2026 — The Arctic is the Key to Understanding Trump II
• 2025 — On the Negative Spirit
• 2025 — "Reduce Interruptions"
• 2024 — Good Art
• 2024 — Lessons From a Year of Alternate Computing
• 2024 — Apple Music: The World's First Entropic Streaming Service
• 2024 — Bloom
• 2023 — Inför certifiering för att skilja människa från dator [Dagens Nyheter]
• 2023 — The Invisible Visible Ships (on AI and Cognition)
• 2023 — Easy (on AI and Effort)
• 2022 — It's CD Time
• 2020 — My New Year's Resolution: No Playlists, No Algorithms, Only Albums
• 2020 — The Zen Action of David Lynch's New Weather Reports
• 2018 — Identity and the Empty Interval: The Predicament of Selfhood in the Present
• 2018 — Ambience and Intrusion: Anna Sjödahl's Centraldatorn i Sundsvall, 1978

Exhibition Proposals

• Zones Without People, A Horror Film
• Slow Going