Maxwell Cohen

Creative Writer

United States

Ah, it's a pleasure to meet you here amongst all this verbiage.

You will find below a selection of the writing I've spent these years assembling.

Essays with thousands of views, copywriting with thousands of impressions, newsletters with thousands of subscribers, and all the flotsam.

Don't hesitate to reach out. I expect you'll have questions.

*Cover image featuring "Poetry" (1919) by Marianne Moore.*

Portfolio

Essays

Foundation for Art and Blockchain
2024
Pindar Van Arman: Monograph

Pindar Van Arman: Monograph provides a comprehensive overview of Van Arman's fascinating and varied oeuvre. Organized chronologically, it features an elaborate set of critical commentaries by Annabel Hallsworth, Danielle Ezzo, and Maxwell Cohen...

Medium
06/15/2023
Matt Kane is Eternal

On a brisk, clear evening, two figures stand out on the lawn of a gently-lit house in suburban Chicago. It's a boy with his father, their hands stuffed in their pockets, their necks craned towards...

Medium
06/06/2023
A Brief History of Virtual Values

Sorry, but if we're going to do this, you're going to have to forget everything you think you know about the Metaverse. Okay? Good...

Medium
02/01/2023
Breastfeeding the Blockchain

We're certainly an arrogant art movement, aren't we? We uniformly preach crypto art's importance. As a new paradigm for artists. As an unprecedented aesthetic movement. As the next big thing...

Copywriting

Threads on X (Formerly Twitter)
07/31/2024
Landslide Network 🔺⚛️ on X

We've talked a lot about how AVAX's ACP-77 upgrade changes the L1 landscape permanently.But did you know that ACP-77 is just one portion of AVAX's next major overhaul?This is AVAX-9000, and it's the biggest game-changer in web3.🧵↓

Ghostwriting on X (Formerly Twitter)
07/22/2024
Aki | dlcBTC on X

When @dntse repeatedly calls @babylon_chain's mechanism "trustless," it misleads users and is bad for Bitcoin...

Threads on X (Formerly Twitter)
07/09/2024
Landslide Network 🔺⚛️ on X

Let's consider a logic problem: If AVAX's ACP-77 upgrade allows L1s to determine their own validators, and if validators can validate transactions by staking tokens on other blockchains, and if Landslide connects AVAX L1s to the entire Cosmos ecosystem of blockchains using IBC...