Andrei Stoica

While seemingly open-ended and allowing for an infinite recombination of elements, the idea of “vibes” is reductive. It discourages the more difficult work of interpretation and the search for meaning that defines human experience. It diverts attention away from narrative and moral implications in favor of foregrounding the idea of affect as... See more

This process of dynamization calls for a permanent increase. Our society must keep up and ensure material growth, technological acceleration, and cultural innovation. The ‘right now’ is a busy moment, insufficient in time. But forget about ‘the now’, as it will worsen next year. No matter how fast you run this year, next year you will be running... See more

Alongside the companies that gather data, there are newly powerful companies that build the tools for organizing, processing, accessing, and visualizing it—companies that don’t take in the traces of our common life but set the terms on which it is sorted and seen. The scraping of publicly available photos, for instance, and their subsequent... See more

Talking through this, Erin and I got to thinking about a closely related issue: Who saves packaging anymore? Did your parents when you were growing up? Do they still? Do you?

There’s an obvious application to health insurance, too. Adverse selection can also happen when a buyer conceals information from a seller; insurance customers will naturally try to hide how sick they are from an insurer, in order to get a lower premium. This means that healthy people have to pay premiums that are too high, which keeps them out of... See more