Category: Culture 🏛️
Like woods and trees, culture is hard to see from the inside. Other things on this blog may also be ‘culture’ but they have their own category.
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The Backrooms as Permissive IP
The Backrooms movie shows how modern myth, world literacy, and permissive IP can produce culture that Hollywood can only arrive at later.
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Telephone
Rumours talk hold when highly important events are shrouded in ambiguity in the presence of a censorious cultural environment.
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2025
Retrospectives for 2025 are still dropping in my RSS reader. Here’s mine: a macro-to-micro tour of the year, plus a few other things.
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Narrative Bubbles
Almost to the same extent that I find the current moment ‘thrilling’, I also find it extremely annoying. Mostly, I’m exhausted by ‘discourse.’
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The Voltage Of The Age
My body keeps registering the ‘voltage of the age’. My former feeling of anxiety has become something like exhilaration
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NoAI LoFi | Weeknotes
YouTubers are performing as Lofi animations in real life, becoming the human equivalent of Netflix’s cosy fireplace video.
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Everything is Fine, Exit Through the Casino
Last week Coinbase launched a new marketing effort in the UK, a satirical piece of musical theatre called Everything Is Fine.
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More Distant Than Ever | 2514
Growing up in Britain in the 1990s, America felt like a country that existed only on television and in toy boxes. A place across the pond that shared a language,…
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A Future Funded Elsewhere
The UK’s creative tech funding is stuck in sticky bureaucracy. Meanwhile, Europe backed Flow—and it won an Oscar.
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You Copied Me
It’s surprising how quickly “You copied me” appears in a child’s vocabulary.
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Entity Not A Person
REINCANTAMENTO over at DROPS newsletter wrote a great post on the Kendrick Lamar – Drake beef and its wider implications for cultural production in our age
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Settling In
The idea that a new work must come out, be consumed, burn bright before we all collectively move on to the next thing is a crazy one. It’s rotting peoples…
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Floating Worlds
Earlier this month I spoke at ‘Open Croissant’ a fringe event coinciding with ETHGlobal. What is interesting was how the event came to be.
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What the Hell Is Going On? | 2243
Steady state capitalist realism and cultural fracking has got so bad they are rebooting the damn moon landings.
