Severin Matusek

Writing, more visibly and unquestionably today than ever, is inherently networked. It begins and remains connected to its subject, and to everything else, becoming part of it. It acts. It does work. It lives. When we write, we reconfigure the world.

NFTs offer digital commerce something the Internet lacks: scarcity and authenticity.

A refusal of AI in creative work begins with a refusal of that product’s ideological packaging.

Seu has spent her young career straddling the meticulous world of academia and her desire to write, speak, curate, and create for a public audience.

“The other day I was tinkering around in my garage and I decided to build a new ideology.”

At Nike World Headquarters, Leenknegt and her team developed a foundation for what they called ‘Energy Marketing’ to build the “unspoken soul” of the brand. Marketing today may seem solely analytical, and performance based, but Leenknegt knows that to reach the consumer most effectively you need to realize that they are human; they desire... See more

but their apparent pervasiveness underlines the consensus that the public internet exists only for the purposes of yelling into the void

Looking back five years after the initial Dark Forest essay and pangs of concern, what most stands out is something that those of us who are drawn to Dark Forests have felt longer than most: that the internet is real life. What we do “in here” matters just as much as — and for some of us, problematically, even more than — what happens “out there.”... See more

These refugees have labored to build an informational and communicative infrastructure that isn’t so overwhelming, one that can be bootstrapped in private or semi-private spaces where a level of trust and good will is taken for granted, and conflict can be productive and encouraging instead of destructive and terrifying. As she puts it, “If the... See more