Sublime
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The invisible and the small is rapidly spreading as a desirable, status-signaling social experience beyond Tyler Brûlé’s world, Japanese bars, and menswear forums.
Ana Andjelic • How Micro-Communities Transform Aspiration
ours is an era of decline that has turned from the outward to the inward obsession with identity and “authenticity,” both personal and tribal, fueled by digital connectivity. Paradoxically, social media in this sense is anti-social, leading to the disintegration of community through a kind of connected isolation.
Noema • All That Is Solid Melts Into Information
the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
the new millennium it became apparent to anyone with eyes to
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
fell beneath notice.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Social remembering: Our own recollection is tied to others with whom we have shared our life.
L. M. Sacasas • The Stuff of Life: Materiality and the Self
In addressing the meaning crisis — the vacuum left by the failures of religion, modernism, postmodernism, and today’s online alternatives — it takes a return to what bona fide religion really captures. The communitas. The ecstasy. The ritual.
Alexander Beiner • Is Religion Coming Back?
