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Evan Malmgren

Evan Malmgren is a writer who covers power and infrastructure for outlets including The Nation, Real Life, Dissent, and Logic. He is currently working on a book about people trying to live “off the grid” in modern America.

A futuristic spaceship powered by 5G.

Escape from Electrosmog

In the early hours of Christmas 2020, a sixty-three-year-old loner named Anthony Q. Warner drove into downtown Nashville, Tennessee, and parked his RV in front of an AT&T transmission building. Shortly thereafter, local residents were awoken by a computerized voice issuing ...
A man with stars flying around his head drives an anthropomorphic van while his possessions, including a blanket and a basketball, bounce on the roof.

Networked Up

One morning last year I woke up in my van. It was late November, and I was parked in a sun-bleached lot in Santa Cruz, California. I had tried to keep pace with T-shirt weather as it crawled down the coast, but my insulation was shit, and the tip of my nose felt like frost. I ...