The Hindsight Institute
NEW CO-DIRECTOR!
The Hindsight Institute is delighted to announce that after a rigorous evaluation process, Paulina Borsook has been selected to join Dr. Praba Pilar, Anonymous, Influencer, and Anonymous as Co-Director. Borsook has shared her fiction, essays, humor pieces, and journalism through Wired, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The New York Times, Architectural Record, San Francisco, Salon, Suck, and Feed, and is the author of the acutely insightful Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High Tech (PublicAffairs, 2000). Borsook has been variously described as “The grande dame of digital culture” (UK Independent), “a bohemian intellectual displaced into the world of Silicon Valley high tech” (Worth Magazine), and as someone who has made “a fine career out of challenging, rebutting, baiting and vexing the conspicuously libertarian technology community (Salon Magazine). She brings a wealth of sagacious hindsight to the Institute.
For the last few years, Borsook has been developing My Life As A Ghost, a multi-disciplinary art project on traumatic brain injury. As part of this project, she was Researcher in Residence at Stanford Art Institute in 2013, where she researched ‘the psychoneurological consequences of traumatic brain injuries, drawing from her own experiences and interviews with other individuals living with TBI.’ In 2011 she was awarded first place in the SF Chronicle's Chronicles of the Bay. Borsook has orchestrated street theater and townhalls; produced and performed in works-in-progress events; helped run a concert series; has an undergraduate degree in psycholinguistics with a minor in philosophy from UC Berkeley; and a Master of Fine Arts from Columbia University.