Selected writing will be assembled from the archive below.
Writer / editor / creative technologist
Jeremy Ray Jewell
Writing on technology, society, culture, and the systems that shape them.
Selected Writing
Archive
The Unwritten Blacklist. New Bloom Magazine. 8/2026
When Books Become Evidence — Hong Kong’s Raids and the New Global War on Dissent. Arts Fuse. 7/2026
Social Proof vs Technical Trust: A LinkedIn Story. HackerNoon. 2/2026
The Subplot of a Nation: What Today’s Chinese Literature Tells Us About Tomorrow. HackerNoon. 8/2025
Demystifying SSH Key Types: From RSA to Ed25519. HackerNoon. 7/2025
“Taming Silicon Valley” — Man Over AI. Arts Fuse. 12/2024
Internet Archive Under Attack — Cultural History Under Threat. Arts Fuse. 10/2024
Decentralization Is an Illusion: A 2023 End-of-Year Look at Web 3.0 Hackernoon. 11/2023
DE DE MOUSE & Shin-Ski’s “Rainbowtime” – The Consolation of Creation The Arts Fuse. 9/2023
Does Roblox Exploit Child Labor in the Metaverse? Hackernoon. 9/2023
The Metaverse is Now Corporate and Depressing. Hackernoon. 8/2023
Poem: "Colorado". Arts Fuse. 7/2023
Prof’s Horse — Carrying Minneapolis on Your Back Ain’t Easy. Arts Fuse. 4/2023
Netflix’s Beef – Don’t Tread on Me. Arts Fuse. 4/2023
The Status Revolution by Chuck Thompson. Bridge Eight. 4/2023
A Past Fit for the Future – Birthright: A Black Roots Music Compendium. Arts Fuse. 3/2023
Indie Pop and TikTok Reviews: Strongboi and Tanara “Double Chocolate” Mallory. Arts Fuse. 3/2023
Ears of the People — Ekonting Songs from Senegal and the Gambia. Arts Fuse. 2/2023
The Depressing New Corporate Metaverse. Areo. 2/2023
Macroblank’s ANALOG レアリティ– Plenty of Scarcity to Go Around. Arts Fuse. 1/2023
YMCK’s Family Innovation — 8bit Cynicism Toward Web 3.0. Arts Fuse. 12/2022
Ginger Root’s Nisemono and the Virtues of Creative Recycling. Arts Fuse. 11/2022
El Muqui. Ilombo Ekjuro. 9/2022
"Jubilo Done Pass". Footnote #5. Alternating Current Press. 9/2022
Run From the Border. Book & Film Globe. 9/2022
Railroad Bill. Ilombo Ekjuro. 8/2022
“We Carry Their Bones” — Life and Death at a Reform School During Jim Crow. Arts Fuse. 8/2022
“Los memes cerámicos de Chucho Bedoya”. Revista Universidad de Antioquia. Colombia. 7/2022.
Smaller Than Africa. Book & Film Globe. 6/2022
El Mohán. Ilombo Ekjuro. 6/2022
Monaleo — The Houston Woman Keeping it Dirty. Medium. 6/2022
Dueto Dos Rosas Are Defying the Mainstream with Their Ranchera Roots. Sounds & Colours. 6/2022
Roblox — Exploiting Child Labor in the Metaverse. Arts Fuse. 5/2022
Megan Walsh’s "The Subplot: What China Is Reading and Why It Matters". The Smart Set. 5/2022
The South – What Jim Crow Was and Wasn’t. Arts Fuse. 5/2022
“We Uyghurs Have No Say” — When Truth Telling Becomes Subversive. Arts Fuse. 3/2022
“Cuba: An American History” — Inextricably Linked, For Better and Worse. Arts Fuse. 2/2022
“Home Reading Service” by Fabio Morábito — Beyond Empty Words. Arts Fuse. 1/2022
Tennessee Ernie Ford’s “Classic Trio Albums” — The Voice Alone. Arts Fuse. 12/2021
Goodbye Columbus — Mexico City’s “La Joven de Amajac” and “Tlalli” Sculptures. Arts Fuse. 10/2021
Juan Cirerol’s “Punk Feeling” — Mexicali’s Poet of Poverty Returns. Arts Fuse. 7/2021
“Canceling Comedians While the World Burns” — The Case for Comediansplaining. Arts Fuse. 6/2021
“Robert E. Lee and Me” — An Incomplete Reckoning. Arts Fuse. 5/2021
“Dogefather” Elon Musk on SNL – Banking on the Irony of the Rich. Arts Fuse. 5/2021
“Minari” — An Immigrant Tale with a Southern Accent. Arts Fuse . 4/2021
The Harry Smith B-Sides: Precursor to The Harry Smith C(ensored)-Sides?. Arts Fuse. 10/2020
Falle Nioke’s “Youkounkoun” EP + 2 Songs — Africa In Any Language. Arts Fuse. 08/2020
Songs of Forgetting – From the Cultural Quarantine of the 1918 Flu Pandemic. Arts Fuse. 04/2020
“李子柒 Liziqi” — Nature and Internet Celebrity in the Time of the Coronavirus. Arts Fuse. 02/2020
“La patria y la muerte” — Exposing Mexican “Greatness”. Arts Fuse. 01/2020
“Dying of Whiteness” — What Rough Beast Slouches Toward Kansas to be Born? Arts Fuse. 09/2019
Gabe Lee’s “farmland” — The Whiskey-Tango-Foxtrot Blues. Arts Fuse. 08/2019
Dueto Dos Rosas, Five Songs. Arts Fuse. 08/2019
“El Norte” — Recovering a Greater America at the Southern Border. Arts Fuse. 06/2019
“Accounting for Slavery” — Plantation Roots of Scientific Management. Arts Fuse. 05/2019
Three poems: "Tactile Afterlife", "Good News Crackles", "Hillbilly of Monterey Bay". Heron Clan VI. 04/2019.
“Where the Crawdads Sing” — Are the Rural Poor Noble Savages? Arts Fuse. 03/2019
“The Burning House” — Diversity in Segregation. Arts Fuse. 02/2019
Charley Crockett’s “Lil G.L.’s Blue Bonanza” — How Did We Get Here, Charley? Arts Fuse. 01/2019
“Revive Us Again” — Rev. Dr. William Barber II’s Quest to Revive Compassion. Arts Fuse. 12/2018
Mountain Man’s “Magic Ship” — There’s Magic in Them Thar Hills! Arts Fuse. 12/2018
“Boosie Blues Cafe” — Rap Reaches Back to the Past. Arts Fuse. 12/2018
Lonnie Holley’s “MITH” — An Act of Restoration. Arts Fuse. 11/2018
About
Jeremy Ray Jewell is an American writer, editor, and creative technologist. His essays, criticism, commentary, reviews, and technical writing have appeared in Arts Fuse, HackerNoon, New Bloom Magazine, and other publications.
He writes across technology, politics, culture, digital media, and international affairs. He holds an MA in History of Ideas from Birkbeck, University of London. His independent digital work includes Aggregatron experimental digital media and web-based publishing projects.
Available for editorial, content, communications, technical writing, and editing work.