Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas

In place of the human gatekeepers and curators of culture, the editors and DJs, we now have a set of algorithmic gatekeepers. While this shift has lowered many cultural barriers to entry, since anyone can make their work public online, it has also resulted in a kind of tyranny of real-time data. Attention becomes the only metric by which culture is
... See moreKyle Chayka • Filterworld
Glenn McDonald,
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
Rick Rubin is one of the most iconic tastemakers of our time. Producer, collaborator, cultural whisperer—Rubin’s career spans from LL Cool J to Johnny Cash to Lana Del Rey. He’s worked across genres, generations, and industries, yet his fingerprint is instantly recognizable.
What sets Rubin apart isn’t technical mastery. It’s attention. Intuition.... See more
What sets Rubin apart isn’t technical mastery. It’s attention. Intuition.... See more
stepfanie tyler • Taste Is the New Intelligence
‘Scene Cool’ values high quality over high sales, fellow tastemakers over mass-market followers, and specific geographical context over post-geographic audiences. While ‘Internet Cool’ chases clout and virality across global digital networks.
The ‘Scene Cool’ practices a studied absence from digital performance. Their power derives from what they... See more
The ‘Scene Cool’ practices a studied absence from digital performance. Their power derives from what they... See more
Sarah Johnson • Issue 007: The Curation Renaissance
“Pop always retroactively rescues unpop from the prison of its admirers.”
McKenzie Wark • Sensoria: Thinkers for the Twentieth-First Century

“Derogatory media coverage is not the verdict but the essence of their resistance,” the sociologist Sarah Thornton wrote in her 1995 book Club Cultures, a history of dance clubs and raves.
Kaitlyn Tiffany • Everything I Need I Get from You: How Fangirls Created the Internet as We Know It
