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
Before, you’d be a goth and watch goth movies and listen to goth music and dress in all black. Now you just dress like that and it doesn’t matter who you are. The fashion isn’t the byproduct of the subculture: the fashion is the subculture.
Kyle Raymond Fitzpatrick • Lol Fashion's Giving Me an Existential Crisis 😅
Last night at dinner talking about subculture stuff and I bring up my standard boring/reductive Q about “how punk skate hip hop etc had monoculture to rebel against, so what now?,” and a brilliant friend answered straight up, “AI will be mainstream monoculture-esque, and is at its core boring and average and uncreative, and that is what people will... See more
Michael J. Miraflorx.com
Our first video was a general overview of the Gen X Soft Club aesthetic.. now we’re diving into what distinguishes it from other Y2K-adjacent and inspired aesthetics such as McBling, Cyber Y2K and Acubi.
This has led us to question whether GXSC is the most accurate representation of that era? Would love to hear your... See more
tiktok.comWe need the presence of mystery in the same way that the coherence and beauty of a landscape require the presence of a horizon, whether as a line defining the field of vision or as a dark boundary that gives sharper definition to the world that is illuminated. Or as language needs the refreshment of silence. We need a sense of communion with that... See more
the hedgehog review • Mystery
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties
As @__femb0t has observed, trying to avoid the algorithm by changing up your language has parallels to the Fremen of Dune , who alter their gait to avoid the attention of sandworms: