Sublime

In 2011 Cowen published a digital pamphlet in which he argued that since the 1973 oil-price shock, America had experienced a hidden crisis of lost growth that would be resolved only by the development of new technology. He called this period the “Great Stagnation”, and he proposed a cultural solution rather than an economic one: raise the social st... See more

I think that at this point in life—after ten or so years of a proliferative mode in the online idiom—there is a craving to return to an earlier, slower internet. Before real chronology and temporal relationships were replaced with sped-up simulations of real-time.

A cer­tain strand of tech­nology might be accelerating, but cul­ture is going nowhere in par­tic­ular — a decaying orbit around a decades-old gravity well; cycling & recycling; pas­tiche & déjà vu; playlist set to loop.