Culture and Couture Brief #2 - Mo Diggs - by Rachel Haywire
"No album captures the vibes of our times like this one. The discordant electrical squawking reminds us of the looming techpocalypse."| www.culturalfuturist.net
"No album captures the vibes of our times like this one. The discordant electrical squawking reminds us of the looming techpocalypse."| www.culturalfuturist.net
Are These Really the End Times For Emerging Alt-Media Creators?| supculture.substack.com
on Gogglebox and vicarious participatory media| robhorning.substack.com
VIDEO: watch me get mad about Congress laughing in our face about "conspiring" to pass the TikTok ban| www.kenklippenstein.com
On 'Joker: Folie à Deux' and 'Megalopolis'| www.metropolitanreview.org
Congressional insiders spill the beans on how the law was passed| www.kenklippenstein.com
Human Mediocrity Will Pave the Way For AI Supremacy| supculture.substack.com
Here we are, peering over the steep cliff of the year’s end, about to leap across into a new year.| supculture.substack.com
literature & culture. Click to read Grand Hotel Abyss, by John Pistelli, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.| grandhotelabyss.substack.com
IRL = In Real Life, sometimes contrasted to AFRL = Away From Real Life. The series that Katherine Dee and I are launching this Friday, titled Internet Real Life, is a play on the IRL acronym, echoing the premise that opened this entry.| lessfoolish.substack.com
My last piece on how the decline of Hollywood blockbusters may lead to a new golden age of creativity for Hollywood included an explanation of why Furiosa ate ass on Memorial Day:| supculture.substack.com
Remember when “epic bacon” was the height of comedy?| Vox
In his sci-fi trilogy The Three Body Problem, author Liu Cixin presents the dark forest theory of the universe. When we look out into space, the theory goes, we’re struck by its silence. It seems like we’re the only ones here. After all, if other forms of life| Yancey Strickler
(NOTE: THIS POST IS OFFICIALLY TOO LONG FOR EMAIL.| supculture.substack.com
How We Got The New Movement That Won't Vote Blue No Matter Who| supculture.substack.com
This is an edited, updated version of an essay I wrote in 2008 when this now popular idea was embryonic and ragged. I recently rewrote it to convey the core ideas, minus out-of-date details. This revisited essay appears in Tim … Continue reading →| The Technium
If hyperpolitics offers some tentative clues for analyzing the post-2008 epoch in the West, the concept can only be fully grasped as part of a broader chronology of the political forms—from mass politics to post-politics—that ran across the twentieth and 21st centuries.| The Point Magazine
