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The highs and lows of pursuing your sport
I USED TO think of athletic ability as a mountain. You're born at the base, and you'll die there too. In between, you climb higher and higher until yo
So why do runners have limits? And why do the limits differ from one person to the next? In part, it's because of physiological factors: blood oxygen
Companies like Crossfit and Soulcycle create a sense of consistent space and ritual that inculcate deep loyalty and community among their participants
As a consumer, you subscribe to one vision or another: what’s your version of hiking out doors? What type of vibe are you about? Purist? Gorpy? High i
In the new cultural economy, the culture is the product. It is composed of practices, ideas, and discourses. Products are auxiliary, supportive, but n
honestly i'm so good at consuming content LMAO. like how do I make it my job to literally just read, watch, and listen to stuff??
..it is possible that every bit of complex technology will in its turn reveal to us something about ourselves we did not know. Part of inventing and t
Now on to the good news. Your no thanks doesn’t need to be an absolute, total, eternal no. We can use typewriters to write letters and write a poem on
The Technology That Actually Runs Our World
That private platforms such as Amazon’s Twitch, Twitter and Facebook now constitute the digital equivalents to public spheres is as much a political f
collectively-owned social and cultural institutions built on decentralised infrastructure: democratically governed manifestations of collective intere
We [also] build our sense of civic identity and opinions about government through social interactions. […] Our social capital — which Putnam defines a
Surviving…whatever all this is… doesn’t have to mean being left a shell of a human. In culture today, there’s an attempt to make something out of it.
The latest season touches on a similar note — in which Robinson’s neighbor sneaks a pig in a Richard Nixon mask into his home. It ends with an all-too
Extra-Existentialism


















