Hamed

I don’t think this is a coincidence. Subcultures flourish in places where a smaller number of people see you every day, but they see you more consistently - letting our creative forms of self-expression more successfully burrow into interesting local possibilities. The city, in contrast, means periodically interrogating your style choices from the ... See more

What Mangione ultimately believed in was an ideology of personal optimisation. This is what’s left after all politics have been exhausted, the 2010s left and the 2020s right. There’s still the relentless need to improve something, but it’s no longer directed outwards. As we’ve discovered, another world is not actually possible, but there are ways t... See more

I can't stress this enough If your spiritual practice is not deepening your honesty, making you braver in relationship, bringing you closer to the beautiful mess of real human connection, it's not helping you Chasing holiness, righteousness and bliss will keep you shallow

In the post-hipster era, you listened to what Spotify told you to listen to. If you read a book, it was because the precise pattern of blobby pastel-coloured shapes on its cover contained coded instructions to TikTok’s algorithm that sent it zooming to the top of your feed. Your tastes and preferences were decided for you by vast crystalline machin... See more