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Ross • Can We Resist the Age of the Algorithm?
Teenagers claim they want to be cool, but they mostly just want to avoid being uncool.
Chuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
It’s more difficult for a film to define and validate the current of popular culture, because that once linear current has been splintered; it’s become a cracked Volvo windshield, spider-webbing itself in a manner that’s generally predictable but specifically chaotic (in other words, we all sort of know where the national ethos is going, but never
... See moreChuck Klosterman • Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs
His quadriceps stored enough lactic acid to turn a triceratops into limestone.
Chuck Klosterman • Downtown Owl: A Novel
The (seemingly regular) deaths of unarmed
Chuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Cal Newport • The Rise of the Internet’s Creative Middle Class
I imagine, in other words, that the notebook is about other people. But of course it is not. I have no real business with what one stranger said to another at the hatcheck counter in Pavillon; in fact I suspect that the line “That’s my old football number” touched not my own imagination at all, but merely some memory of something once read, probabl
... See moreJoan Didion • On Keeping a Notebook - Joan Didion
throughout the South. He went on to invest in a professional football team in Memphis, which he named the Clarence Saunders Sole Owner of My Name Tigers. Really. They played