Isabel Heijne
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Isabel Heijne
“There is a certain shade of red. In order to see it, you would need to purge your brain of the millions of years of evolution commanding you to pay special attention to red, plus the millennia of culture telling you that red is the only color worthy of a name, plus the past few centuries of deposed, “garish” red. I have no idea what this shade of
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“This is also the thesis, or part of the thesis, of “Chromophobia.” David Batchelor’s gleeful little rant, from 2000, is a perfect example of what Janet Malcolm called a bee-in-your-bonnet book, in which the author has a broad, slightly wacky idea but then makes the case with such panache that one can’t help but be impressed. Batchelor thinks that
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books.google.nlI feel that it is particularly important to consider how our rapid shift towards hypervisualization, and the tendency for internet culture to divorce images from context, plays a role in fueling the rise of regression.
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Hoe je 10.000 abonnees op Substack krijgt
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Gen X and older millennial women had Boomer grandmothers or their own mothers to tell the true stories of what life was actually like as a housewife, and to drill the significance of self-sufficiency into our hardwiring. Gen Z and some younger millennials didn’t have that. There is a generational experience gap. Instead, they witnessed different is... See more
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W Magazine
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Vogue Business suggests, “There’s an air of luxury around the act of reading: it takes time to get through a book...When a fashion brand aligns with literature, they are making an allusion to quality and permanence and, in many ways, delayed gratification.”