Quotes
Brands function to soften and mask the raw deal at the heart of every capitalist exchange
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Mass culture itself has become a subculture — a sort of sideshow to the real action,
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
Since 2014 I have lived in New York, inside the machine where Lifestyle is made
Toby Shorin • Life After Lifestyle
Words that make you smile as you repeat them out loud. Ideas that pain you to just be internalizing now.
A Thousand Ways
When I’m not spending my eight-block journeys to the subway letting scream-heavy post-punk keep me from lying down in despair, I spend them compulsively adding up the retail value of every piece of clothing and jewelry I’m wearing.
Everyone Is Expensive and No One Is Real by Erin Evans
‘when i’m not X i’m y’
Efficiency doesn't tame our appetites; it whets them. Our innovations become trampolines for our desires.
Tina He • Jevons Paradox: A personal perspective
Boys are still broadly permitted long, elastic adolescences