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
Imagine showing Louis XIV your life. Almost everything would amaze him. He would offer you half of Gascony for your flat-screen television. Even driving a 20-year-old car would delight him. The Palace of Versailles consumed more water than the city of Paris, yet the cleanliness of your water supply would still astound him, as would your flushable t
... See moreRory Sutherland • Louis XIV Would Envy Your Life
The freedoms associated with liminal spaces – club nights, abandoned buildings, forgotten shopping malls – often have a lot to do with the fact that these places, and the marks people left of themselves within them, will eventually disappear. There’s also something inherently egalitarian about them; a place that nobody owns or stakes an exclusive c... See more
Moses Hubbard • Disappearing Berlin
"smile that slowly crumbles like wet sand on the beach".
Thomas Flight • Why the Curse Is So Brilliantly Uncomfortable
As Robert Hughes wrote in his 1980 book The Shock of the New, “Nothing dates faster than people's fantasies about the future.”
The nature of urban places simultaneously enchants us, educates us, and points us to the ever-presence of a wilderness beyond what we will ever see or experience. With attentiveness we discover that the places humans inhabit are far more biologically diverse than we imagined. With all the earth we share the presence of moon, clouds, weather, rooted
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