Jordan Matthiass (Me)

Hi, I'm Jordan.

In my life, I've been an academic philosopher, an art curator, a cinema bartender, and more. I grew up in small-town Ohio, but nowadays, I live in Sweden, work in audio tech, and write for fun.

If there's a theme in my writing, it's how consumer technology, algorithms, and now AI impact our ability to make intentional choices and connect with a shared material reality, and what we can do about it.

I believe that it's healthy to have independent online spaces that you can own and maintain. That's why I created this plain-text website and not a Facebook page. The simplicity and intentionality of these pages allow us to interact as if no corporations were watching.

Anyway, here are some things I've written:

2025

“Reduce Interruptions”

2024

Good Art

Lessons From a Year of Alternate Computing

Apple Music: The World’s First Entropic Streaming Service

Bloom

2023

Inför certifiering för att skilja människa från dator [Dagens Nyheter]

The Invisible Visible Ships (on AI and Cognition)

Easy (on AI and Effort)

2022

It's CD Time

2020

My New Year's Resolution: No Playlists, No Algorithms, Only Albums

The Zen Action of David Lynch's New Weather Reports

2018

Ambience and Intrusion: Anna Sjödahl’s Centraldatorn i Sundsvall, 1978