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“They call themselves jitterbugs,” Adorno had written, explaining one of the ideas of his that has held up least well over time, “as if they simultaneously wanted to affirm and mock their loss of individuality, their transformation into beetles whirring around in fascination.”
Kaitlyn Tiffany • Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
The Score Takes Care of Itself.
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
Within the context of Heathers, suicide gave the dead qualities they never possessed in life. This is not a shocking revelation; suicide made Judas sympathetic, Sylvia Plath irrefutable, and Marilyn Monroe unfortunate. However, Cobain’s suicide was of the postmodern variety; his death changed the history of the living. Suicide gave sorority girls
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How constant digital distractions are eliminating daydreaming and potentially harming creativity in modern culture
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And I was, we were arguing about it and we're obviously all good friends about, I was saying like, I worry sometimes that there's too many distractions that it's going to ultimately hurt creativity because I think of the way I grew up where a lot of times I read a book or wrote something just because I didn't have anything else to do.
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As all forms of media have moved into streaming, when everything seems to be a single click away, it’s easy to forget that we can also have physical, non-algorithmic relationships with the pieces of culture we consume in our personal time. We store books on bookshelves, mount art on our living room walls, and keep stacks of vinyl records. When we
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he threw me a bone, saying, “You heard of Titanic Thompson?” I had not. “Check him out. That guy got it.”
Derek DelGaudio • AMORALMAN: A True Story and Other Lies
The first possibility is that football survives because of its explicit violence, and that this discomfiting detail ends up being its twisted salvation. The second possibility is that football will indeed disappear—but not just because of its brutality. It will disappear because all team sports are going to disappear, and football will merely be
... See moreChuck Klosterman • But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
No UFC fan is shocked by the sight of a man knocked unconscious. Football, however, appeals to a swath of humanity many magnitudes larger. It attracts people who haven’t necessarily considered the ramifications of what they’re witnessing—people who think they’re relaxing at home on a Sunday afternoon, nonchalantly watching the same low-stakes
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