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There are things I can’t stomach anymore—I never listen to NPR in the car now. I’ve replaced it with top-forty stations; vacuity seems preferable to pandering.
Elisa Gabbert • The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays
Culture industry roles were once much more coherent, the lines of power much more concrete. Figures like Anna Wintour and Rick Rubin gesture at this recent past. They were middle men connecting financial capital (businesses) with cultural capital (artists) to create social capital (cultural institutions). Fashion and literary editors, film and tele
... See moreLee's racial critique of his fellow director is off the mark. It is almost wholly ad hominem. It focuses on the character of Tarantino's race rather than the character of his work—brilliant work that allows the word nigger to be heard in a rich panoply of contexts and intonations.
Randall Kennedy • Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
It cannot be overstated that normies are not people; they are biological placeholders, cached NPC loops given mass. Their “opinions” do not matter. They aren’t real. Everything they think they believe is just pre-chewed marketing gruel funneled into their skulls by desperate, dead-eyed institutions.
Nobody actually likes Refik Anadol.
Nobody actually
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