Agalia Tan

Our fear of death motivates an all-consuming neuroticism about outrunning mortality, even when the price we pay is putting health optimization above e

This is also where fashion enters the conversation, because fashion has never quite known what to do with weird except sell it back at a markup

Weirdness, through this lens, isn’t a flaw creative endurance survives despite. It’s closer to what Sontag calls “a tender feeling”: the thing you ext

Rehearse your spiel. Write it, sharpen it, present it to yourself as you’re walking to work. It needs to feel automatic so that when you’re confronted

“the decline of deviance.” As people get richer and the world gets safer, deviance falls, because “life is worth more now.” When people think that the