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Movies, TV, music, books, and video games should expand our consciousness, jumpstart our imaginations, and introduce us to new worlds and stories and feelings. They should alienate us sometimes, or make us mad, or make us think. But they can’t do any of that if they only feed us sequels and spinoffs. It’s like eating macaroni and cheese every singl... See more

Adam Mastroianni • Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly

A vision of life together in service to the formation of erotic souls must reckon with the imperialist habits of mind born of whiteness that imagine peoples through boundary identities.

Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))

Atwater, trained originally as a background man for news dailies, constructed his own WITW pieces by pouring into his notebooks and word processor an enormous waterfall of prose which was then filtered more and more closely down to 400 words of commercial sediment.

David Foster Wallace • Oblivion: Stories

With very few exceptions, video killed the American revival house. If you want to see a Boris Karloff movie, you have to rent it and watch it on a television set. In Paris it costs as much to rent a movie as it does to go to the theater. French people enjoy going out and watching their movies on a big screen. On any given week one has at least 250

David Sedaris • Me Talk Pretty One Day

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste.

Kyle Chayka • Filterworld

Again, I can’t speak for anyone else, but when I spend too much time on the socials, my focus erodes to a point that I have trouble reading anything , much less keeping a page of Morrison straight in my head. Morrison didn’t write for the Elon Musk shattermind; she wrote for the Slow Zone. Anyone can read Toni Morrison, but I would argue that unles... See more

Junot Díaz • PROTECT YOUR READING

he does see trouble in the glut of franchise and comic book entertainment that currently makes up much of what you can see in a theater. “The danger there is what it’s doing to our culture,” Scorsese said. “Because there are going to be generations now that think movies are only those—that’s what movies are.”

I think people already think that.

Martin Scorsese: “I Have To Find Out Who The Hell I Am.”

newsworthiness rarely brings destroyed White bodies to the front page of the newspaper.

Teju Cole • Black Paper: Writing in a Dark Time (Berlin Family Lectures)

And this lack of agency is undermining our connections to the culture that we love.