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But whether Substack is good for writers is one question; another is whether a world in which subscription newsletters rival magazines and newspapers is a world that people want.
Anna Wiene • Is Substack the Media Future We Want?
Analyzing sexism through female celebrities is a catnip pedagogical method: it takes a beloved cultural pastime (calculating the exact worth of a woman) and lends it progressive political import. It’s also a personal matter, because when we reclaim the stories that surround female celebrities, stories surrounding ordinary women are reclaimed, too.
Jia Tolentino • Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
The interesting thing about Charlie’s work on Black Mirror is that he’s completely obsessed with all the tech and high-concept stuff. It’s pretty much all he talks about and it appears, on the surface, to be all he’s interested in. And yet he writes these incredibly emotional, and tender, portraits of human fallibility. He seems to do that without
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‘Don’t try to keep the dead alive’ – Liam Payne’s new Netflix show can only be totally creepy TV … right?
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Whereas the Internet once promised to provide on-demand access to limitless information and media to anyone willing to make use of a Google search, lately it has encouraged a more passive kind of engagement, a state of slack-jawed consumption only intensified by this past year’s quarantine ennui.
Kyle Chayka • “Emily in Paris” and the Rise of Ambient TV
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