Emily Nabnian

Sales for purchasing physical Together items will be open for a few weeks, and the hoodies and t-shirts will be produced according to the number of orders. This maximizes the profit margin, Karl says, while also ensuring that production practices remain low waste. The designers say they also have plans to mint the artwork that appears on the garmen... See more

Long time horizons aren’t just psychological. They’re cultural. Modern society suffers from temporal exhaustion. Or as, sociologist Elise Boulding once said: “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imagining the future.”

Thiel opposes the idea that luck is all-powerful. He encourages human agency and believes in the power of a single individual to bend the future to their will. Thiel believes we attribute too much to luck, which stops us from actually doing things.

 When I left after seven months and three days, one of the lawyers down the hall from me said, ‘You know, I had no idea it was possible to escape from Alcatraz.’ Of course that was not literally true, since all you had to do was go out the front door and not come back. But psychologically this was not what people were capable of. Because their... See more

Sacrifice is a social event. Without sacrifice, human beings wouldn’t have a culture.

Mimetic conflict emerges when two people desire the same, scarce resource. Like lions in a cage, we mirror our enemies, fight because of our sameness, and ascend status hierarchies instead of providing value for society. Only by observing others do we learn how and what to desire. 

When you compete to be the best, you imitate. When you compete to be unique, you innovate.

How might our view of the world be altered by uncanny fashion? We could look to architecture for precedent on this question. Speculative architecture is either a radical way of conceiving unbuilt futures or “the design world’s clickbait,” depending on how you look at it.