ELIAS
KLEIN.

ARCHIVIST · CRITIC · INTERFACE THEORIST

PHILOSOPHY

Bureaucracy is honesty. A grid that names itself a grid. A field that labels itself FLD_01. A system that does not apologize for being a system.

METHOD

Read everything. File everything. Number every entry. Cite the seams. Refuse the seamless.

ESSAYS 47

MANIFESTOS 08

TALKS 12

INTERVIEWS 23

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TIMELINE

RECORD.

2024 Filed Manifesto_01: 'The Aesthetics of Bureaucracy'

2022 Founded Archive.Node as a critical repository

2019 Published 'Paper Logic' in MUTE Quarterly

2015 MA, Critical Theory of Interface Design

2011 First public log entry