A talk with Maya Sobchuk

The creative and intellectual communities used to not be as separate as they are now — artists and writers used to sit at the same table and discuss global problems. Writer and researcher Maya Sobchuk thinks this divide has only contributed to the fractured state of the Internet and the information we consume.


Last Wednesday, Maya led us through one of the most electric evenings we’ve had — a lecture that moved across mediums, technologies, and histories to trace how the information we consume has been quietly, deliberately shaped by forces most of us never see.


Maya leaves us sitting with this, a call to action directed at the audience and the wider Tokyo creative community — “No matter how much research we put in to diagnose the problem or policy we write to fix it, we’re leaving out the people that create so much of the Internet — and to some extent the people that could save it.”