Dani Murphy

“The map of utopias is cluttered nowadays with experiments by other names, and the very idea is expanding. It needs to open up a little more to contain disaster communities. These remarkable societies suggest that, just as many machines reset themselves to their original settings after a power outage, human beings reset themselves to something altr... See more

The creator economy is in its early days, really. The mass adoption of television occurred in the 1950s, and the creator economy started in earnest around 2010, so we’re just about 15 years into it. It’s concerning that these media executives think they are superior to it and have a better way of operating, when they obviously do not. They should b... See more

Moodboarding as a practice is maxed out. It’s become a nearly absurdist consumer hobby, and it’s part and parcel of our algorithmic reality, targeted yet vague. Similarly, slop can’t be meaningfully curated because there are too many actors, algorithms, and microtrends being expressed simultaneously, in too many automated iterations.