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Last night at dinner talking about subculture stuff and I bring up my standard boring/reductive Q about “how punk skate hip hop etc had monoculture to rebel against, so what now?,” and a brilliant friend answered straight up, “AI will be mainstream monoculture-esque, and is at its core boring and average and uncreative, and that is what people will... See more
Michael J. Miraflorx.comSevernace is grappling with many of the same questions swirling around contemporary work and labor as those other shows, but it’s pursuing them in a way that’s at once thrilling and haunting.
Anne Helen Petersen • The Feast of Severance
The work is important and mysterious. The hit Apple TV show Severance resonates so deeply because it literalizes what millions already experience: the splitting of self required by modern work culture. Its fictional brain procedure makes hyper visible the dissociation we've normalized as "professionalism"—that daily transformation where we suppress... See more