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Leigh Alexander

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Leigh Alexander

Flood Warning Severe

Leigh Alexander

17 min readFeb 20, 2019

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Flood Warning Severe

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Time Travel on the YouTube Express

Watching old commercials is like watching a sleeping America dream about itself

6 min readMay 3, 2018

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The Future We Wanted

“Was this what you imagined? I mean, when you were a little girl?”

31 min readApr 20, 2018

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The Soft Truth

An ‘algowave’ short fiction

18 min readMar 16, 2018

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The Many Faces of “Distracted Boyfriend”

On stock photography memes and the illusion of reality

5 min readSep 29, 2017

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The Unearthing

The Unearthing is a piece of fiction written in 2014 about that year’s public excavation of Atari games that had been infamously buried…

27 min readSep 8, 2017

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The Underground World of Magical Resistance (on the Internet)

When your lived reality is repeatedly denied, why not believe in a harmless crystal or two?

7 min readJul 18, 2017

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The Slimy, Technicolor World of Satisfying YouTube Videos

“Satisfying videos,” as they’re called, are massive on YouTube, viral colonies of forms and formlessness in rainbow hues.

6 min readMay 31, 2017

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TFW You Fall Out of Love with “Like”

I’m putting less energy into social media and more into creating physical artifacts from my life. It’s an act of political rebellion and…

6 min readJan 17, 2017

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The Campo Santo Quarterly Review

The Bride

I am an American woman who has decided to marry an English man. Wow! I’ve got lots to say about this. I mean, I have a lot to say about it…

9 min readJul 13, 2016

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Leigh Alexander

Leigh Alexander

13.6K Followers

I write about the intersection of technology, popular culture and the lives we’ve lived inside machines. I’m also a narrative designer! leighalexander1 at gmail

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