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
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Macquarie Dictionary has named the 2024 word of the year enshittification ... no it has nothing to do with 💩 Rawdogging, fairy porn, brainrot and right to disconnect also made the shortlist. Choose your news on the ABC News app and stay in the know via the link in our bio. #ABCNews #WordOfTheYear
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The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1 (VINTAGE CLASSICS)
The Big Book of Cyberpunk Vol. 1 (VINTAGE CLASSICS)
This dialectic is muddy from the get-go, of course. It’s a version of the more familiar hipster trap: over time, the marginal labor of the bohemian experimentalist and taste-maker is swallowed up by the smug cartoon of the in-the-know consumer clone. But the near inevitability of this process also suggests that the first hipster was already part of... See more
Erik Davis • The Weird and the Banal
When we are deprived of green, of plants, of trees, most of us (though evidently not all of us) succumb to a demoralization of spirit which we usually blame on some psychological or neurochemical malady, until one day we find ourselves in a garden or park or countryside and feel the oppression vanish as if by magic.
— Robert Harrison: Gardens: An Es
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