Essays

Essays

Benjamin Charles Germain Lee

*I maintain a semi-regular newsletter to share my writing as it is published.*

Year at the Museum
Bennington Review, Issue 14 (print; forthcoming)

The World for Wager
Current Affairs, Issue 51 (print; forthcoming)

Who's Afraid of AI?
The New Republic, November 2024 Issue (print)
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Screen Memory
Bright Wall/Dark Room (online)
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I Watched Footage of Jerry Lewis’s Unreleased 1972 Holocaust Film
The New Republic (online)
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Violence Quantified
Protean Magazine (online)
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How Declining Sperm Counts Have Seeded A Crisis of American Individualism
Current Affairs, Issue 44 (print; co-authored with Arjun S. Byju)
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Moneyball Made Sports Worse
Jacobin (online)
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How Microsoft Excel Tries to Rebrand Work as Excitement
WIRED (Software Review series)
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Manufacturing Nostalgia
Current Affairs, Issue 37 (print)
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Hard Data: The Erotics of Infographics
Gawker (online feature)
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Speaking for the Past
Real Life Magazine (online)
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The Company Sees All
Current Affairs, Issue 29 (print)
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Anne Frank's Ghost All Around
GoldFlakePaint, Issue 7 (print)
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The Singularity Prophets
Current Affairs, Issue 23 (print)
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Goudey's 'Registered' Card Sets and the Artists Who Produced Them
Old Carboard, Issue 27 (print)
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