Alex Dobrenko
@alexdobrenko
writer comedian just a lil guy head of vibes at Sublime
Alex Dobrenko
botharetrue.substack.com
Which is all to say: there is always something a little, well, dangerous, about the concept of originality: a danger that has been elided by our contemporary startup-statured culture, which holds as gospel that imitation is for normies, and innovation for the kind of geniuses most people now secretly believe themselves to be.
Tara Isabella Burton • Original Sin—A Theological Reading of Innovation
Byung-Chul Han becoming famous is hilarious and tragic - the very things he decries in his books are eating him up and consuming his ideas and even if he has nothing to do with it, he can't stop it from happening
"the gradual + slow build of something beautiful and substantial interests me more than suddenly giving into what feels convenient or pleasurable in one slice of a moment in time" https://t.co/SyooBOYZ4p
Solastalgia is a new concept developed to give greater meaning and clarity to environmentally induced distress.
Madeline Ostrander • The Era of Climate Change Has Created a New Emotion
what's the best compliment you've ever received?
The end result of all the publications dying is that we get a pure form of anarcho-capitalist media—everyone out for themselves, with the most successful and savvy and cut-throat rising to the top.