(If you do not have a subscription or do not have the means to get one, type archive.is/newest/ right before the URL of the article. Again, I am not encouraging this! Just putting it out there that internet archives exist ).

The tyranny of the contextualizer online is their constant and immovable presence between the reader and the text, the listener and the music, the viewer and the film. We now reach for context before engaging with the content. When my first interaction with a song is through TikTok reactions, I no longer encounter the work as it is, on my own. It... See more