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cultural paradigms• 34
Mike Renaud

Even if, for a while, I feigned hatred of rock and roll, that only made sense on the presumption of its continued reign. Much the same could be said a

To be honest, my appetite for this sort of online blowup diminishes hourly. Though I’m as prone to schadenfreude as any other media professional tryin

We can always opt out of this arrangement, of course, and live happily in meatspace, but that is precisely the point: Offline we exist by default; onl

Identity• 53
Sixian

pretty clear that collecting cultural ephemera is a new consumer behavior that’s going to become a core part of life on the internet

Books you read are sending you input. Your friends modeling behaviors for you. Newspapers. Tools. People you follow on Twitter. The architecture of a

The dream isn’t just to show all of ourselves unfiltered to the world. It’s to find a character that we feel comfortable being, that we deeply resonat

Authenticity• 63

What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?

Keely Adler

Confessional art can be beautiful, and it can be terrible; either way, to love it only as a representation of what we already know is to deny it, and

Meanwhile, a fixation on honesty continues to pervade popular arts discourse, music included. Indie scenesters have historically been the ones to agit

When scientific progress destabilized religious authority and the lack of meaning found in a pure rational worldview revealed science’s limitations, m