alexi gunner
@idlegaze
cultural strategist
writes idle gaze; a newsletter exploring the undercurrents of the modern zeitgeist.
founder @ idle gaze consulting
cultural futurist @ RADAR
alexi gunner
idlegaze.substack.com
“In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention. And in an age of constant movement, nothing is more urgent than sitting still.”
A quote from The Art of Stillness
Sometimes, things are serious. Not everything needs to be turned into a joke. As Anhedönia said, we can still make jokes and laugh, but we’ve lost the ability to know when to stop – and it’s time we learned how.
Halima Jibril • Ethel Cain says we are in an irony epidemic – is she right?
need to write a thinkpiece about this genre of video where a young upwardly mobile email boy in a highrise goes about his isolated daily routine (part of his bourgeois “hustle”). my first thought is that the whole style is derived from the american psycho opening sequence https://t.co/wMmj7L5fZf
doctor ewx.comEastern cultures maintain a cyclical perception of time. Time is viewed as repeating or recurring in cycles, with events following a circular or spiral pattern. In cyclical time cultures, there is an understanding that the past, present, and future are interconnected, and that events repeat themselves over time. Time is seen as circular, with each
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Sunil Sharpe, a DJ and co-founder of Give Us the Night, said the stalling of a proposed law that would extend closing times to 6am had left the industry in limbo, with operators nervous to invest in new venues.
archive.ph
The dark forest theory of the web points to the increasingly life-like but life-less state of being online. Most open and publicly available spaces on the web are overrun with bots, advertisers, trolls, data scrapers, clickbait, keyword-stuffing “content creators,” and algorithmically manipulated junk.