Selected writing will be assembled from the archive below.
Jeremy Ray Jewell
Writing on the systems that shape life, society, and culture.
Selected Writing
Archive
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
“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 and creative technologist. His essays, criticism, reviews, and poetry have appeared in Arts Fuse, HackerNoon, The Smart Set, Sounds & Colours, and other publications.
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.