Severin Matusek

Zines are best when they are about the artistic process, when you can see the marks of another human being making stuff in our human beingy ways.

While recent albums from Dua Lipa, Grande and Lorde treated self-care and introspection as a kind of therapeutic salvation, Charli shifted hard into goblin mode, unfurling a litany of barely euphemistic drug references and proudly owning her messiest contradictions. (

Both represent a form of aspirational displacement . This is the idea that when you can't afford a house, you buy mystery boxes that might contain a rare variant and then that’s good enough. It’s a way to perform relationship to consumer culture.

Executives, meanwhile, increasingly believed that they’d found their best bet in “IP”: preexisting intellectual property—familiar stories, characters, and products—that could be milled for scripts. As an associate producer of a successful Aughts IP-driven franchise told me, IP is “sort of a hedge.” There’s some knowledge of the consumer’s interest,... See more

The existing institutional landscape tends to silo relevant areas of expertise. There are few organizations set up to provide opportunities for integrated projects that include broad philosophical inquiry and the production of code. Existing work that has passed through all three stages is often not fully recognized as having done so, since the... See more