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All the Nerds Are Dead - By Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge
It’s possible that the idea of an “important” work of popular art, like the idea of movie stardom, simply can’t survive the transition to the digital era. The journalist and novelist Ross Barkan has done interesting writing on this theme, borrowing from Bret Easton Ellis’s concepts of “Empire” and “Post-Empire” to describe a shift from the post-Wor... See more
Opinion | Can We Make Pop Culture Great Again?
Closely related to ‘brain fog’, a term defined by stressed-out, screen-burnt office workers, 'brain rot' is a condition, a self-inflicted, low-frequency depression brought on by perusing the toilet wall of the internet.
For younger, hyper-online types, it’s a genre – a niche subsection of content which builds on half-... See more
instagram.comThere is too much culture for culture to have manners, method or modulation. Things don’t cohere. They don’t line up in the beautiful diffusion waves running vividly in from the margin. This means it’s much harder to figure what and when culture will reach us. No more taking a position in the diffusion stream, as an innovator, early adopter, or lat
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