Hidden Frequencies

Patrick Geddes: Thinking in Systems

What a nineteenth-century tourist attraction can tell us about the structure of human knowledge, and what happens when there's too much to know

Mar 22 • Alex Wright

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February 2026

The Spy Who Came In From the Library

Herbert Haviland Field and the Secret History of the Modern Intelligence Agency

Feb 26 • Alex Wright

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January 2026

The Moose and the Antelope

The strange tale of two unlikely quadrupeds that helped shape the modern information age

Jan 8 • Alex Wright

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December 2025

A Tramp Printer's Christmas

A forgotten tale of a tramp printer down on his luck

Dec 18, 2025 • Alex Wright

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AI Slop Is Older Than You Think

Before chatbots and content farms, the penny press was generating slop at industrial scale. What the nineteenth century can teach us about today’s AI…

Dec 9, 2025 • Alex Wright

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November 2025

A Brief History of Doomscrolling

News fatigue is nothing new

Nov 20, 2025 • Alex Wright

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Palaces in the Cloud

On memory, machines, and the forgotten art of medieval mnemonics

Nov 4, 2025 • Alex Wright

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October 2025

Welcome to Hidden Frequencies

Tracing the deep history of the digital age

Oct 30, 2025 • Alex Wright

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